[填空题]Galileo was granted a patent on a mechanism for raising irrigation water to fields.

[填空题]Galileo was granted a patent on a mechanism for raising irrigation water to fields.

[简答题]A granted patent is the result of a bargain struck between an inventor and the state, by means of which the inventor gets a limited period of monopoly and publishes full details of his invention to the public after that period terminates. Once the monopoly period comes to an end, all those details of the invention pass into the public domain. Only in the most exceptional circumstances is the life-span of a patent extended to alter this normal process of events.

[简答题]Special Safeguard Mechanism

[填空题]The Patent Act of 1836 only created a Patent Office to examine applications.

[简答题]Galileo’s book was banned from selling in Italy at that time．
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[填空题]How can we support mechanism

[单项选择]It is known that （） Galileo invented （） telescope.
A. the ... the
B. / ... the
C. a ... /
D. the ... a

[单项选择]Who will be the first users of Galileo, the new satellite navigation system
A. Rescue workers
B. GPS users
C. European drivers

[单项选择]The scientist Galileo claimed that the earth ______ around the sun.
A. moves B. moved C. is moving D. was moving

[简答题]Galileo’s greatest glory was that in 1609 he was the first person to turn the newly invented telescope on the heavens to prove that the planets revolve around the sun rather than around the earth.

[简答题]In England he was granted an honorary degree from Oxford—an unusual honor for a citizen of a young, uncultured nation—and he received the medal of the Royal Society of Literature. ( Passage 1 )

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An assumption is something taken for granted. Everyone makes assumptions--you have to in order to say anything. As a critical reader, you need to determine what the assumption is and then decide whether you agree or disagree with the assumption. Once you decide, your attitude toward the argument will change. Careful, honest writers know what their assumptions are and lay the most important ones out for all to judge. Hidden assumptions may be all right for humor or fairly harmless in topical journalism, but they can be dangerous in serious written argument. Important assumptions should be explicit and detailed, for then the reader can judge their validity. If you do not agree with a writer’s assumptions, then you will never agree with his/her arguments.
As indicated above, an assumption is a belief that we take for granted as a basis for an assertion. All kinds of statements rely on assumptions--questions, commands, promises, and assertions. The simple command "
A. positive
B. negative
C. neutral
D. not mentioned