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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.
The author’s attitude towards China’s advancement on patents is one of______.
选项 A、objectiveness
B、ambivalence
C、skepticism
D、concern
答案D
解析 属态度题。考生应快速浏览全文，把握全文主旨，同时留意作者用词的褒贬，进而来判断作者对主题事物的态度。选项A的措辞过于夸张，作者并没有直接反对或否定中国在专利申请上所取得的进步，故选项A错误。选项B干扰性很强，但全文并未用大段文字说明中国专利和创新的进步会给美国带来哪些益处，所以我们无法推测作者对于中国专利和创新的进步采取的是一种矛盾态度，故选项B错误。选项C同原文相悖，作者并没有对中国在专利上取得成就产生怀疑，故选项C错误。阅读过程中，我们会发现一些表示担忧的词汇，如worry、worrisome，文章中多处表达了美国认为中国在专利和创新上取得的进步对美国是很大的威胁，因此作者的态度应该是忧虑，故选项D符合题意。
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