LSAT-22-2-3

snow_mountain

LSAT-22-2-3
22/2/3. The current move to patent computer programs is a move in the wrong direction and should be stopped. The patent system was originally designed solely to protect small-time inventors from exploitation. not to give large corporations control over a methodology. Any computer program is merely the implementation of a methodology.
Which one of the following is an assumption on which the argument depends?
(A) Computer programs should be developed not only be large corporations but by small-time inventors as well.
(B) Implementing a methodology always requires less creative effort than does true invention
(C) The issue of whether or not to patent computer programs presents the patent system with problems that have never before arisen
(D) Large corporations should not hold patents for implementations of methodologies
(E) Small-time inventors who support the move to patent computer programs act contrary to their own best interests

答案D。 以前的解释看了，还是不明白。D好像是arguer宣样的观点呀。怎么变成假设了？

番茄炒蛋

文中有三个个现象
一是the current move is wrong（这是结论）
二是the patent system was originally designed  not to give large corporations control
三是any computer program is merely the implementation of a methodology

要得到上面的那个结论，当然这里面还需要一个假设，d就正好弥补了这个空缺，你再想想

snow_mountain

嘻嘻，想明白了。这个gap太小了，我反而不敢跳了。