问大全13-13，没懂。。

13.   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.

(B) Getting “inside” information about the unique practices of competitors is particularly difficult.

(C) Since companies that compete with each other are likely to have comparable levels of efficiency, only benchmarking against noncompetitors is likely to reveal practices that would aid in beating competitors.

(D) Managers are generally more receptive to new ideas that they find outside their own industry.（E）

(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 of markets.

(E)?

My reason: BCD are easy to be eliminated. A is relevant because "already" can imply the negative opinion of focusing on the competitors.

E is in support of benchmarking the competitors since it limits the advantage to be taken within the "products of markets" which I guess means the same thing as "products market"

benchmarking是比对的意思，就是比着别人的进度来看自己应该怎么做。

问题意思是要找一个理由支持比对"非直接竞争者"的好处，较之于比对直接的对手公司。