XDF （绿皮书的讨论）的题目讨论

1。 Manager: Accounting and Billing are located right next to each other and the two departments do similar kinds   of work; Yet expenditures for clerical supplies charged to Billing are much higher. Is Billing wasting supplies?

      Head of Billing: Not at all.

Which of the following, if true, best supports the position of the Head of Billing?

(A)  There are more staff members in Accounting than in Billing.

(B)  Two years ago, expenditures in Accounting for clerical supplies were the same as were expenditures that year in Billing for clerical supplies.

(C)   The work of Billing now requires a wider variety of clerical supplies than it did in the past.

(D)   Some of the paper-and-pencil work of both Accounting and Billing has been replaced by work done on computers.

(E)   Members of Accounting found the clerical-supplies cabinet of Billing more convenient to go to for supplies than their own department's cabinet.

答案E 是什么意思？看不明白。

2。  Among the more effective kinds of publicity that publishers can get for a new book is to have excerpts of it published in a high-circulation magazine soon before the book is published. The benefits of such excerption include not only a sure increase in sales but also a fee paid by the magazine to the book's publisher.

which of the following conclusions is best supported by the information above?

(A)  The number of people for whom seeing an excerpt of a book in a magazine provides an adequate substitute for reading the whole book is similar than the number for whom the excerpt stimulates a desire to read the book.

(B)  Because the financial advantage of excerpting a new book in a magazine usually accrues to the book's publisher. magazine editors are unwilling to publish excerpt from new books.

(C)  In calculating the total number of copies that a book has sold, publishers include sales of copies of magazines that featured an excerpt of the book.

(D)  The effectiveness of having excerpts of a book published in a magazine, measured in terms of increased sales of book, is proportional to the circulation of the magazine in which the excerpts are published.

(E)  Books that are suitable for excerpting in high-circulation magazines sell more copies than books that are not suitable for excerpting.

答案A是什么意思？看不懂！