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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.

the answer is (E)

why???

我选E，但是我觉得没有答案正确，排除法做的，E相对好点吧！顶上去，请NN指点。

up!看不大懂，求解释

我的理解，看是不是这样：

 certain tasks that Vernon performs relatively inefficiently  即指原文中的V公司自产那些可以由outsourcing来降低成本的原料这个活动。所以如果让给independent suppliers去做，找E所说，可以腾出更多的时间让管理层处理公司的核心业务，所以在改善管理方面支持了这个计划可以提高公司利润的可能。