老prep CR 36 求解释。

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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.

 答案：E。感觉多少有点牵强，因为题目中说的objective是boost profits，E虽然可以联系到boost profits，但是中间的关系似乎也远了一些吧。

望NN指点。

E不牵强啊，E是说有些特别的工作对这个公司来说是低效率投入多产出少的，E可以采取outsource的策略不做这些低效率的工作，将优势兵力集中到核心产业方面。这其实就是扬长避短的意思。用排除法也可以将剩下的选项排除掉啊。

可以的话将原文字体调大些吧，这样对眼睛好：）

不远，原文说，公司为了提高利润，把一些项目外包，从而降低成本。

E说，公司外包的这些项目都是那些极度浪费资源的项目，外包出去后，可以提高核心竞争力。因此，外包有利于公司。