标题: 【求助帖】一道prep和OG都出现过的题目，答案很费解 [打印本页] 作者: apple09031104 时间: 2011-10-20 15:40 标题: 【求助帖】一道prep和OG都出现过的题目，答案很费解 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. 这个是prep0708里面的，答案选E我选的C C:只是说不存在竞争，但是竞争和利润并无直接关系。但是就算是存在竞争也有可能成本下降，只要成本下降就有利可图。如果竞争过于激烈也有可能导致价格下降，利润损失。这个选项更应该属于evaluate 非常具有迷惑性 E:经理们解放出来从事核心业务，至少对收入是一个正向作用，因此不管成本如何变，对利润也是一个正向作用
这道题又在OG中出现过 Outsourcing is the practice of obtaining from an independent supplier a product or service that a company has previously provided for itself. Since a company’s chief objective is to realize the highest possible year-end profits, any product or service that can be obtained from an independent supplier for less than it would cost the company to provide the product or service on its own should be outsourced.
Which of the following, if true, most seriously weakens the argument? (A) If a company decides to use independent suppliers for a product, it can generally exploit the vigorous competition arising among several firms that are interested in supplying that product. (B) Successful outsourcing requires a company to provide its suppliers with information about its products and plans that can fall into the hands of its competitors and give them a business advantage. (C) Certain tasks, such as processing a company’s payroll, are commonly outsourced, whereas others, such as handling the company’s core business, are not. (D) For a company to provide a product or service for itself as efficiently as an independent supplier can provide it, the managers involved need to be as expert in the area of that product or service as the people in charge of that product or service at an independent supplier are. (E) When a company decides to use an independent supplier for a product or service, the independent supplier sometimes hires members of the company’s staff who formerly made the product or provided the service that the independent supplier now supplies.
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.
1. 找出argument & line of argument
通过把有些部门业务外包到成本更低提供商，来提高公司盈利
2. 分析逻辑
两个逻辑事物
A 把有些部门业务外包到成本更低提供商
B 提高公司盈利
GAP 找茬 - (有什么原因A推不到B) 举几个例子：1）成本低并不代表盈利高。如果外包后质量下降，售价下跌，盈利不会提高。2）如果外包这些部门影响别的部门成本上升，整个公司盈利不一定提高。大家不用在找茬上花太多时间，但一定要清楚看到A和B是不同的两个点。
Outsourcing is the practice of obtaining from an independent supplier a product or service that a company has previously provided for itself. Since a company’s chief objective is to realize the highest possible year-end profits, any product or service that can be obtained from an independent supplier for less than it would cost the company to provide the product or service on its own should be outsourced.
Which of the following, if true, most seriously weakens the argument?
(A) If a company decides to use independent suppliers for a product, it can generally exploit the vigorous competition arising among several firms that are interested in supplying that product.
(B) Successful outsourcing requires a company to provide its suppliers with information about its products and plans that can fall into the hands of its competitors and give them a business
advantage.
(C) Certain tasks, such as processing a company’s payroll, are commonly outsourced, whereas others, such as handling the company’s core business, are not.
(D) For a company to provide a product or service for itself as efficiently as an independent supplier can provide it, the managers involved need to be as expert in the area of that product or service as the people in charge of that product or
service at an independent supplier are.
(E) When a company decides to use an independent supplier for a product or service, the independent supplier sometimes hires members of the company’s staff who formerly made the product or provided the service that the independent supplier now supplies.
1. 找出argument & line of argument
通过把有些部门业务外包到成本更低提供商，来提高公司盈利
2. 分析逻辑
两个逻辑事物
A 把有些部门业务外包到成本更低提供商
B 提高公司盈利
GAP 找茬 - (有什么原因A推不到B) 举几个例子：1）成本低并不代表盈利高。如果外包后质量下降，售价下跌，盈利不会提高。2）如果外包这些部门影响别的部门成本上升，整个公司盈利不一定提高。大家不用在找茬上花太多时间，但一定要清楚看到A和B是不同的两个点。
Richard 770 逻辑答题讨论 http://forum.chasedream.com/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=1303467&fromuid=1294035 作者: yayuxu 时间: 2017-10-18 10:50
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Mark一下！ 作者: ba1a糖儿 时间: 2018-7-18 10:37 PREP 外包part of its product->↓cost，↑profit
(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.
C 就算有outsource，没有多少外包商可以变成competitor
可能会对profit产生影响，先留着
(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.
E 时间效率筹划的改变使得V的efficiency可以提高
再来看OG:
任何可以外包的都外包->最大程度上boost profit
(B) Successful outsourcing requires a company to provide its suppliers with information about its products and plans that can fall into the hands of its competitors and give them a business advantage.
两道题的区别就是 一个是把 part of its work外包，一个是只要能外包的都外包出去。
part外包的情况下，就像苹果，研发不会外包吧？只是组装和生产需要外包，而真正值钱的部分就在研发上。说明重要的部分是不会外包的！！！prep题中的C在这种情况下无须担心。但是OG-全盘托出可能会导致技术泄露，知识产权问题等~
=。=这个例子可能扯远了，主要想呈现两个题目的不同.. .. 至于prep题CE的对比.. ..
Which of the following, if true, most strongly supports the prediction that Vernon's plan will achieve its goal?
目的就是boost profit，更多的是对结论的补充E，而非排除其他可能C（是不是support的情况下就是填gap而strengthen就是排除其他可能啊？？求大佬指点）
