【正文】 ase the incidence of risks.正確答案：B. are often unnecessarily issued.【分析】：正確答案來自原文第五段：“too many patents were being upheld for “inventions” that are obvious.” D是正反混淆，與第四段第一句不符合，也不符合常識。文章不是指big business transaction的意思。C選項是最近公眾對商業(yè)專利方法關注的可能結果——要限制過多授予 專利權。正確答案：C. the possible restriction on their granting【分析】：題目問題是：商業(yè)專利方法在最近引起關注的原因是是什么?本題關鍵詞為Businessmethod patents，可以定位于第二段。26. Businessmethod patents have recently aroused concern because of __________.A. their limited value to business. 商業(yè)價值有限。The Federal Circuit’s action es in the wake of a series of recent decisions by the Supreme Court that has narrowed the scope of protections for patent holders. Last April, for example, the justices signaled that too many patents were being upheld for “inventions” that are obvious. The judges on the Federal Circuit are “reacting to the antipatent trend at the Supreme Court,” says Harold C. Wegner, a patent attorney and professor at George Washington University Law School.聯(lián)邦巡回法院的這一裁決效仿了最高法院。The Bilski case involves a claimed patent on a method for hedging risk in the energy market. The Federal Circuit issued an unusual order stating that the case would be heard by all 12 of the court’s judges, rather than a typical panel of three, and that one issue it wants to evaluate is whether it should “reconsider” its State Street Bank ruling.前面提到的Bilski案例牽扯到一份已申請的方法專利，即關于能源市場的風險規(guī)避方法（注：也可譯為“套期保值或對沖風險”）。后來，更多的公司競相添加這樣的專利權，希望這樣一個防御性的行為可以先下手為強。Text 2Over the past decade, thousands of patents have been granted for what are called business methods. received one for its “oneclick” online payment system. Merrill Lynch got legal protection for an asset allocation strategy. One inventor patented a technique for lifting a box.在過去的十年中，成千上萬的商業(yè)方法被授予了專利權。他也是一位深受讀者青睞的文體家，所以1947年他的《自傳》一書就成為熱銷讀物?！拌b于幾乎沒有作家能擁有足夠的智慧或文學天賦以保證他們能在新聞報紙寫作中堅持不懈”， Newman曾寫道，“以至于我非常想把‘新聞寫作’定義為不受讀者歡迎的作家用來嘲諷受讀者歡迎的作家的一個 ‘輕蔑之詞’ ”注：tempted to do sth的意思是：To cause to be strongly inclined:很想做：使很傾向于，所以可以翻譯為“很想做某事，很傾向于做某事”。當時的報紙極其便宜，人們把高雅時尚的文藝批評當作是所刊登報紙的一個亮點。然而，在20世紀出版的最重要的文藝評論集中，人們讀到的大部分評論文章都是從報紙上收集而來。Text 1Of all the changes that have taken place in Englishlanguage newspapers during the past quartercentury, perhaps the most farreaching has been the inexorable decline in the scope and seriousness of their arts coverage.過去的25年，在英文報紙發(fā)生的所有變化中，或許最具有深遠意義的變化就是這些報紙的文藝報道范圍不斷縮小，嚴肅性不斷減弱，這是個無法逆轉的必然趨勢?，F(xiàn)在，如果讀到這些集子，人們肯定會驚詫，當年這般淵博深奧的內容竟然被認為適合發(fā)表在大眾日報中。在那些遙遠的年代，各大報刊的評論家們都會不遺余力地詳盡報道他們所報道的事情，這在當時被視為是理所當然的事情。另外，keep one39。Unfortunately, these critics are virtually forgotten. Neville Cardus, who wrote for the Manchester Guardian from 1917 until shortly before his death in 1975, is now known solely as a writer of essays on the game of cricket. During his lifetime, though, he was also one of England’s foremost classicalmusic critics, and a stylist so widely admired that his Autobiography (1947) became a bestseller. He was knighted in 1967, the first music critic to be so honored. Yet only one of his books is now in print, and his vast body of writings on music is unknown save to specialists.不幸的是，這些批評家們現(xiàn)在實際上已被人們遺忘。 1967年他被授予爵士稱號，也是第一位獲此殊榮的音樂評論家。Is there any chance that Cardus’s criticism will enjoy a revival? The prospect seems remote. Journalistic tastes had changed long before his death, and postmodern readers have little use for the richly upholstered Vicwardian prose in which he specialized. Moreover, the amateur tradition in music criticism has been in headlong retreat.Cardus的評論有沒有機會重新流行？前景似乎渺茫。亞馬遜網站獲得的專利是在線“單擊”付費系統(tǒng)。Now the nation’s top patent court appears pletely ready to scale back on businessmethod patents, which have been controversial ever since they were first authorized 10 years ago. In a move that has intellectualproperty lawyers abuzz, the . Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit said it would use a particular case to conduct a broad rev