[求助]OG-11的CR100题干看不懂

请教： OG-11的CR100题干看不懂。benchmarking 的确切意思是什么呢？（不好意思，我找了一遍CD，原文没法引用过来。）还有问题：　Any of the following,if true, is the valid reason for benchmarking the performance of a company against companies with which it is not in competition rather than against competitors EXCEPT:

不明白是什么意思。请各位NN翻译一下。谢谢！

benchmark:

something which can be used as a standard by which other things are judged or measured.

Thank you. I see, benchmark means standard. But I still don't know the meaning of question!

Please paraphrase it.

感谢好心人的帮助，我可以部分引用了。题目是这样的：

100. One way to judge the performance of a company is to compare it with other companies. This technique, commonly called "benchmarking," permits the manager of a company to discover better industrial practices and can provide a justification for the adoption of good practices.                                                                                               

          Any of the following, if true, is a valid reason for benchmarking the performance of a company against companies with which it is not in competition rather than against competitors EXCEPT:

(A) Comparisons with competitors are most likely to focus on practices that the manager making the

　　　　comparisons already employs.

          （E）Much of  the success of good companies is due to their adoption of practices that take advantage of the special circumstances of their products or markets.        

          （E）Much of  the success of good companies is due to their adoption of practices that take advantage of the special circumstances of their products or markets.        

        主要是问题看不懂，哪位朋友请帮忙分析解释一下，为什么是E呢？谢谢！

Any of the following, if true, is a valid reason for benchmarking the performance of a company against companies with which it is not in competition rather than against competitors EXCEPT:

to paraphrae: which of the following does not strengthen the argument that a company should use the performance of a company which is in other industry as its benchmark, rather than use its competitors'.

http://forum.chasedream.com/dispbbs.asp?BoardID=24&replyID=1705214&id=180423&skin=0

Please check it. It may help

非常感谢你，Yogurt！

这个问题困扰我好几天了，谢谢你指路了。

另外，第五楼的编辑老是出问题，多余的话怎么也删不掉，见谅了。

谢谢回答过我问题的朋友。

for your reference  http://forum.chasedream.com/dispbbs.asp?BoardID=24&replyID=2455516&id=264961&skin=0