prep 07 36

Yaoling

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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.


这题选C吧？标准答案选E，我一头雾水

007zyx49

只是说不存在竞争，但是竞争和利润并无直接关系。但是就算是存在竞争也有可能成本下降，只要成本下降就有利可图。如果竞争过于激烈也有可能导致价格下降，利润损失。这个选项更应该属于evaluate 非常具有迷惑性