ChaseDream

标题: prep CR 1-36 [打印本页]

作者: strout 时间: 2007-5-10 14:25
标题: prep CR 1-36

36. (32124-!-item-!-188;#058&006025)

Outsourcing is the practice of obtaining from an independent supplier a product or service that a company has previously provided for itself. Vernon, Inc., a small manufacturing company that has in recent years experienced a decline in its profits, plans to boost its profits by outsourcing those parts of its business that independent suppliers can provide at lower cost than Vernon can itself.

Which of the following, if true, most strongly supports the prediction that Vernon's plan will achieve its goal?

(A) Among the parts of its business that Vernon does not plan to outsource are some that require standards of accuracy too high for most independent suppliers to provide at lower cost than Vernon can.

(B) Vernon itself acts as an independent supplier of specialized hardware items to certain manufacturers that formerly made those items themselves.

(C) Relatively few manufacturers that start as independent suppliers have been able to expand their business and become direct competitors of the companies they once supplied.

(D) Vernon plans to select the independent suppliers it will use on the basis of submitted bids.

(E) Attending to certain tasks that Vernon performs relatively inefficiently has taken up much of the time and effort of top managers whose time would have been better spent attending to Vernon's core business.

Why E is better? In fact, E didn't mention outsource at all. Who knows whether bad tasks will be outsourced?

I chose D. And A looks good too.

Thanks.

[此贴子已经被作者于2007-5-10 22:37:07编辑过]

作者: strout 时间: 2007-5-10 22:33
up.

作者: strout 时间: 2007-5-12 05:56
nobody answer my question

作者: strout 时间: 2007-5-12 11:37

I think E is wrong.

The question is focused on "boost profits", the best answer will support maximizing profits. D can support it because it can choose the lowest price.

Make sense?

作者: Jolin_hz 时间: 2007-5-12 12:26
E is right,原来top managers都花在现在要外包的part,so now they can focus on core business,而且外包的成本又比自己生产的低

作者: strout 时间: 2007-5-13 06:45
what about D?

作者: lxzmonica 时间: 2007-5-13 11:34

我不太明白为什么D可以降低成本？我怎么觉得是无关选项阿

作者: lxzmonica 时间: 2007-5-13 11:37
我的意思是其实选不选得到LOWEST是无关的吧？，反正题目已经说了，外包就是比自己做的成本低，就可以了吧？E说可以把更多精力放到核心业务上面。加强

作者: denne 时间: 2007-5-17 15:28

这题在A E之间犹豫，结果选了A

想请教下，是不是support的题是要给出additional的信息来加强结论，所以像A这种复述原文的选项要排除？

作者: IceCo 时间: 2007-6-6 07:48

A is out of scope. The plan discusses
"outsourcing" and A discusses the parts that are not outsourced without mentioning anything about the profitability of the company.
It does not weaken or strengthen the plan.

作者: snowofjune 时间: 2007-12-17 02:17
E, A是无关的选项。

欢迎光临 ChaseDream (https://forum.chasedream.com/)