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While America’s leaders worry about how to curb China’s increasing influence in currency, inflation, and trade issues, they are

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问题     While America’s leaders worry about how to curb China’s increasing influence in currency, inflation, and trade issues, they are in danger of overlooking an even larger threat—one that could make those debates pointless: China is expected to surpass the U.S. in patent filings this year.
    China’s National Patent Development Strategy lays out aggressive targets—a doubling of the number of patent examiners to 9,000 and 2 million patents by 2015. This includes both invention patents and utility patents, which cover engineering features. An increase in these utility patents may be even more worrisome.
    China is focusing its intellectual attention in the right places, industries like sustainable power and new automobile technologies. It already operates the world’s fastest supercomputer and it leagues ahead of the U.S. in high-speed rail development and many forms of alternative energy.
    China has made a commitment not only to new ideas, but fast-tracking their ownership. With the country mandating that products not only be sold in China but formed and engineered there, winning the trade war will be difficult.
    New ideas are essential because 21st century trade will not be defined by who makes what, but who makes things better. And while the U.S. stalls, China moves ahead. Take American jet maker Boeing(BA), for example. Boeing has again announced a delay of its 787 Dreamliner. At the same time, China announced a joint-venture agreement with General Electric(GE)giving it access to sophisticated airplane technology, including some of the same components used in Boeing’s Dreamliner. The U.S. must be smarter and tougher to succeed.
    New inventions and innovations will count for nothing if the intellectual property behind these ideas can be copied and mass-produced. China aims to invest in the development of new technology while turning a blind eye to intellectual-property theft. The U.S., which spends over twice as much on litigation as it does on research, needs to do more to get tough on these copycats. As the No. 1 economy, the U.S. must pressure China to rein in patent abuses and expand trade.
    China is listening. Recognizing it has a place as a global superpower, it’s vowed not to use pirated software in any government offices. Acknowledging the problem is a start, but by no means the end.
    Ultimately, it may be in China’s interest to relax trade restrictions and open up the market to American imports. The U.S. has signaled that a more conciliatory trade policy is a possibility, but only if China opens up its own market to American products. A little competition will go a long way toward driving new ideas for both countries. The U.S. has shown itself to be an invention hub: entrepreneurial, risk-taking, and hands-on. If the U.S. cannot remain intellectually competitive, a few inflationary percentage points will be the least of the country’s problems.
On which of the following statement would the author LEAST agree?
选项 A、China, as a superpower, should be responsible for containment of IP abuses.
B、U.S. companies operating in China should be on a more equal footing to China’s own.
C、It is of great difficulties for America to have a trade surplus with China.
D、The mass-production of new ideas and intellectual property is a blessing and curse.
答案D
解析 属观点题。根据选项A的关键词“containment”和“IP abuses”可迅速定位到文章第七段第二句，从该句可以推测出中国应该在侵权问题上有所作为。根据选项B的关键词“equal”可以迅速定位到文章第八段，该段强调了中国放宽贸易限制、开放市场的必要性，作者想表达的意思就是美国企业应获得和中国企业同样的竞争地位。根据选项C的关键词“difficulties”和“trade surplus”可以迅速定位至文章第四段最后一句话，从该句可以得知美国取得对华贸易顺差的难度不小。选项D与原文第六段第一句的意思相悖，作者认为，如果创意背后的知识产权可以批量生产的话，那么发明和创新就毫无价值，而选项D的意思是批量生产知识产权是把双刃剑，故选项D为正确答案。
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