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中国地质大学（武汉）2011年考研英语阅读核心材料_Jerry Chen PAGE PAGE 1 考研全真阅读及翻译长难句解析核心材料：结构1 1 Anyone closely involved in patents and inventions soon learns that most “new” ideas are, in fact, as old as the hills. 2 If, on the other hand, producing more of a commodity results in reducing its cost, this will tend to increase the supply offered by seller-producers, which in turn will lower the price and permit more consumers to buy the product. 3 Whether to use tests, other kinds of information, or both in a particular situation depends, therefore, upon the evidence from experience concerning comparative validity