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michellechang

Q7

我没选A就是因为不知道approach指什么？？谁能告诉我！！

foreinter

开始选c,后来通读一遍，认为还是从Z和H的角度出发，谈了研发投资并无增加和专利质量的下降及原因。所以选A。C还是不全面。

wxf

The system of patentgranting,

which confers

temporary monopolies for

Line  the exploitation of new tech-

(5)   nologies, was originally

established as an incentive

to the pursuit of risky new

ideas. Yet studies of the

most patent-conscious

(10)  business of all—the semiconductor

industry—suggest

that firms do not necessarily

become more innovative as

they increase their patenting

(15)  activity

originally 表明原来的意图，yet以后说明原来的意图没达到。

所以选A

吴笙

把选项a翻译一下，大家再看看：

The passage is primarily concerned with discussing
A. a study suggesting that the semiconductor industry’s approach to patenting during
the period from 1982 to 1992 yielded unanticipated results

本文主要讨论的是：

一个研究揭示出：在1982到1992年间半导体产业对专利申请的执行方式产生了意想不到的结果。

注意，yielded 的主语是 approach 而不是 study

水蓝27

可以这样来理解：

approach yield unanticipated results没有错，这里的approach就是文章第一句的主语的同义变换：the patentgranting system, 但是yet studies发现这个system原本的意图没有达到，这句话是本文的TS，选项A则是TS很漂亮的改写，注意理解这个yet在文中的作用很关键。其实我们做主题题的思路主要就是2个：有明显TS的，进行改写；没有明显TS的，看各段首句

A study suggesting that the semiconductor industry’s approach to patenting during
the period from 1982 to 1992 yielded unanticipated results

gmat740

按照OG的思路，应该是A，发现主题题中，从句的内容非常重要。我本来也选择C，现在根据ETS这个混蛋不将礼的家伙的思路，看来A更好一点。

nyc_cfa

仔细想了想还是C,半导体工业只是个突出的例子.

dreamerps

以下是引用ring_cheng在2005-7-19 17:37:00的发言：

My two cents:

GWD-8-Q7 :

The passage is primarily concerned with discussing （文章说的是什么-内容性主题题，找TS）

Yet studies of the

most patent-conscious

(10)             business of all—the semi-

conductor industry—suggest

that firms do not necessarily

become more innovative as

they increase their patenting

(15)    activity.

A. study suggesting that the semiconductor industry’s approach to patenting during the period from 1982 to 1992 yielded unanticipated results —>a study是主题句中studies中的一个（这两人的研究）；包括了文末的原因，并说出了结果（活动增加但没有创新）与文章开头相呼应

C.  the connection between patenting and innovation in the semiconductor industry during the period from 1982 to 1992  —>仅仅只是联系connection吗（专利活动增加但没有创新的connection）？文章最后还分析了原因，但该原因并没有包括在connection中（没有概括全文内容）

同意，C不全面

leonchan

7A:agree with ring_cheng's comments

9A:

The passage makes which of the following claims about patent quality in the semiconductor industry?

Though patent

quality is a difficult notion

to measure, the number of

times a patent is cited in

(40)      the technical literature is

a reasonable yardstick, and

citations per semiconductor

patent did decline during

the 1980’s. This decline in

(45)      quality may be related to

作者认为patent quality的确是下降的，原因是作者提出的patent的引用率在1980‘s一直都是下降的；这两句话意思合起来就是说，作者认为在整个1980年代，patent quality一直在下降

作者在任何地方都没有提到patent quality与patent quatity的关系，所以不可能是B

amacd

Does the "unanticipated results" refer to that companys are using patents for strategic purpose, a result that isn't anticipated by Ziedois and Hall at the begining....

Their original anticipate to see - how the innovations/R&D relates to patents...