204.An eyeglass manufacturer tried to boost sales for the summer quarter by offering its distributors a special discount if their orders for that quarter exceeded those for last year’s summer quarter by at least 20 percent. Many distributors qualified for this discount. Even with much merchandise discounted, sales increased enough to produce a healthy gain in net profits. The manufacturer plans to repeat this success by offering the same sort of discount for the fall quarter. Which of the following, if true, most clearly points to a flaw in the manufacturer’s plan to repeat the successful performance of the summer quarter? (A) In general, a distributor’s orders for the summer quarter are no higher than those for the spring quarter. (B) Along with offering special discounts to qualifying distributors, the manufacturer increased newspaper and radio advertising in those distributors’ sales areas. (C) The distributors most likely to qualify for the manufacturer’s special discount are those whose orders were unusually low a year earlier. (D) The distributors how qualified for the manufacturer’s special discount were free to decide how much of that discount to pass on to their own customers. E (E) The distributors’ ordering more goods in the summer quarter left them overstocked for the fall quarter.
Choice C is incorrect: although part of the success of the discount incentives in the summer may have come from distributors’ recovering to more normal sales, that does not provide a reason for thinking that the same increase in sales cannot occur in the fall quarter.
答案c我不是很明白，请赐教：按照og的说法，在秋天还有可能出现这种recovering to more normal sales的情况，但是年初低订单的分销商在夏天经过discount已经不再是low orders了，那么生产商从哪里来的空间再由分销商在秋天增加订单呢？
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