[教请]OG黄皮CR100------巨绕的提问方式,不得不问的题!

题干很简单,可是问题在问啥,谁能帮忙翻译,呵呵!

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) 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.

和我一样，看题干都看困了

我个人的理解，可能不精确：

如果以下任何一个选项是正确的，除了哪一个其他都将是最有效的理由来证明benchmarking the performance of a company against companies which it is not in competition 优于 against competitors。（这几个英文应该不需要翻译了）

对不起,还是绕!

能否明示?

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

上面是我认为的主干,先把except去掉，看题干，说的是那个选项作为一个a valid reason for benchmarking the performance of a company, 而这个performance of company是对于against not in competition rather than against competitors。

举例说，A，B都是汽车行业，C是食品行业，那么这道题就问的是，benchmarking the （performance of A） against 非同行业的C， rather than against 同行业的B.   即用非同行业的C来衡量A，而非用同行业的B来衡量A

那么加上except后，就是说要用同行业的B的performance来衡量A，所以Choice E为此点，故正确。

前几天刚看这题，问的是，下面哪个是XXX的理由，除了。。

XXX代表这个巨绕的句子：benchmarking the performance of a company against companies with which it is not in competition rather than against competitors

意思是与不同行业的公司比较（against companies with which it is not in competition），而不是与同行业的公司比较（rather than against competitors ）。

说俗一点就是：为什么公司更倾向于与别的行业的公司比较而不是与同行业的公司比较呢？让你找出选项里不构成这个理由的那一项。答案就很明显了。

哦,明白了

实在佩服楼上MM的理解力啊,呵呵!

这题我昨天遇到了，开始理解后就明白了，很简单，benchmarking是和行业内其他公司比较，ABCD都是在提到2个公司，但是E选项只是提到公司关注它的产品和市场，没说比较，所以选E