If early judicial decisions were prejudiced against patentees, one might expect that subsequent courts—allegedly more supportive of patent rights—would reject the former legal precedents. But pre-1830 cases have been cited as frequently as later decisions, and they continue to be cited today, suggesting that the early decisions, many of which clearly declared that patent rights were a just recompense for inventive ingenuity, provided a lasting foundation for patent law.

陷阱：2/5of the remaining newsletters，是剩余的2/5,不是全部的！！！

大约花几分钟过桥？算出来是2.28分钟，那应该是大约3分钟过桥。
为什么选2分钟呢？2分钟根本过不了桥呀！

另解：又由1B+B1=11C，B最小仅可能是9否则构不成三位数，C=0 。

个位B+A=1C，十位进1：B+A=AA，所以a比c大1，百位A只能是1，所以C=0

D更直接？

FEWconsumer已经排除消费者与答案的相关性

(1) Basically, 'so.. that' is used to show intent..

He did X, so that Y can happen

(2) 'Where' is used to literally denote physical location..

Chimpanzees do not show curiosity to pass the behavior.. not meaningful.. So based on (1) and (2) , we can eliminate A, B, C and E.

前提：电有用，能杀虫除害。
结论：电能产生农业革命。
削弱：电对植物也有坏处。

词

关键词：average

再次错了！尴尬的要死 AE 纠结！

More than 3 times as A charged tuition and fees of （under $8000） a year as... over $1600

比较的是宾语

I can’t give you the actual text of the correct answer, but here’s a similar example:
The hurricane will continue to develop while an area of high pressure spreads, which will cause torrential rain and possible flooding.
which指代前面的an area of high pressure

Let’s talk about the question that surprised me a little, #781. The correct answer uses a particular grammatical construction that doesn’t strictly follow the patterns we’ve typically seen on the GMAT. But the usage of this thing (I’ll tell you what it is in a minute) has become more common in spoken language, so I think they’re signaling that this is fine on the GMAT, too.

划线部分解决的是如何解决the largest share的修饰成分，that clause可以，to do 似乎更简洁但是，不能确定the largest share在修饰成分中承担哪部分作用，是主语还是宾语。所以，that clause表达意思明确，虽然不太简单，入选。

错选了E 不是在自动化的发展中把他们排除而是因为要把他们排除才会发展自动化 因果关系颠倒 而且最后一句话也说了 From this he concludes that automation is undertaken not because efficiency demands it or scientific advances allow it

he culprits for service-sector productivity stagnation are the forces—such as corporate takeovers and unnecessary governmental regulation—that distract managers from the task of making optimal use of available resources.

Since 1980, productivity improvements in manufacturing have moved the United States from a position of acute decline in manufacturing to one of world prominence.

对于discrepancy有三个解释，第二段说了traditional measures和foreign competition，第三段才说了题目问的budget-deficit。C选项是第二段的内容排除。