【华慧考博】考博英语每日一练（9.11）考博加油！

1. The captain of the ship entered the details in the ________.
A. lounge
B. log
C. motel
D. shipwreck
2. The ratio of the work done by the machine ______ the work done on it is called the efficiency of the machine.
A. against
B. with
C. to
D. for
【考博英语长难句翻译】
Curbs on business-method claims would be a dramatic about-face, because it was the Federal Circuit itself that introduced such patents with its 1998 decision in the so-called State Street Bank case, approving a patent on a way of producing mutual-fund assets.





【华慧考博】考博英语每日一练（9.11）参考答案
1.B
【句意】船长将把详细状况记入航海日志。
【解析】名词词义辨析。lounge“休息室“；log“原木；（尤指）航海日志，飞行日志”；motel”汽车旅馆“；shipwreck”船舶失事；失事的船”。由句中关键词“The captain of the ship entered the details…船长将把详细状况记入……”的对应知“航海日志”符合语境，故B项正确。
2.C
【句意】机器的输出功与输入功之比被称为机械效率。
【解析】固定搭配。由固定搭配“the ratio of… to ………与……之比”知C项正确。
【考博英语长难句翻译参考译文】
对商业方法专利申请的限制将是一个戏剧性的彻底转变，因为正是联邦巡回法院自己在1998年所谓的道富银行（State Street Bank）案裁决中引入了这些专利，该裁决批准了一项共同基金资产集资方法的专利。