[求助]天山7-Q7-10

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Q7 to Q10:

In recent years, Western

business managers have been

heeding the exhortations of busi16

Line ness journalists and academics

(5) to move their companies toward

long-term, collaborative “strategic

partnerships” with their external

business partners (e.g., suppliers).

The experts’ advice comes as

(10) a natural reaction to numerous

studies conducted during the past

decade that compared Japanese

production and supply practices

with those of the rest of the world.

(15) The link between the success of

a certain well-known Japanese

automaker and its effective

management of its suppliers, for

example, has led to an unques-

(20) tioning belief within Western

management circles in the value

of strategic partnerships. Indeed,

in the automobile sector all three

United States manufacturers and

(25) most of their European competitors

have launched programs to reduce

their total number of suppliers and

move toward having strategic

partnerships with a few.

(30) However, new research concerning

supplier relationships in

various industries demonstrates

that the widespread assumption of

Western managers and business

(35) consultants that Japanese firms

manage their suppliers primarily

through strategic partnerships is

unjustified. Not only do Japanese

firms appear to conduct a far

(40) smaller proportion of their business

through strategic partnerships

than is commonly believed, but

they also make extensive use of

“market-exchange” relationships,

(45) in which either party can turn to

the marketplace and shift to different

business partners at will,

a practice usually associated

with Western manufacturers.

Q10:

Which of the following is most clearly an example of the practice referred to in lines 38-

49 of the passage?

A. A department store chain that employs a single buyer to procure all the small

appliances to be sold in its stores

B. An automobile manufacturer that has used the same supplier of a particular axle

component for several years in a row

C. A hospital that contracts only with union personnel to staff its nonmedical

positions

D. A municipal government that decides to cancel its contract with a waste disposal

company and instead hire its own staff to perform that function

E. A corporation that changes the food-service supplier for its corporate headquarters

several times over a five-year period as part of a cost-cutting campaign.

Answer:

這題我選D,答案是E

我覺得D也說的通阿....

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