问一下OG 10 的43题（OG 11的23题）

michael_liu

23. With the emergence of biotechnology companies, it was feared that they would impose silence about proprietary results on their in-house researchers and their academic consultants. This constraint, in turn, would slow the development of biological science and engineering.
Which of the following, if true, would tend to weaken most seriously the prediction of scientific secrecy described above?
(A) Biotechnological research funded by industry has reached some conclusions that are of major scientific importance.
(B) When the results of scientific research are kept secret, independent researchers are unable to build on those results.
(C) Since the research priorities of biotechnology companies are not the same as those of academic institutions, the financial support of research by such companies distorts the research agenda.

(D) To enhance the companies’ standing in the scientific community, the biotechnology companies encourage employees to publish their results, especially results that are important.
(E) Biotechnology companies devote some of their research resources to problems that are of fundamental scientific importance and that are not expected to produce immediate practical applications.

答案是D，不过对于这道题我有一个疑问，就是题目的意思是5个选项里面哪一个weaken the prediction, 这里面的prediction指的应该是最后的结论吧。我理解的题干的意思是，新的生物技术公司有可能保密自己的研究成果，这将导致（prediction）slow the development...

那么题目应该在问，在新的公司采取保密措施的前提下，哪个选项不会导致slow the development..才对啊。但是D选项把前提都否定了，明显在说新公司不会保密。

总是不能太理解题目的意思。

[此贴子已经被作者于2008-10-23 17:09:21编辑过]

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