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cindykwan

Q35~Q37: T-7-Q23-Q25

        Companies that must determine well in advance of the selling season how many units of a new product to manufacture often underproduce products that sell well and have overstocks of others. The increased incidence in recent years of mismatches between production and demand seems ironic, since point-of-sale scanners have improved data on consumers’ buying patterns and since flexible manufacturing has enabled companies to 24 produce, cost-effectively, small quantities of goods. This type of manufacturing has greatly increased the number of new products introduced annually in the United States. However, frequent introductions of new products have two problematic side effects. For one, they reduce the average lifetime of products; more of them are neither at the beginning of their life (when prediction is difficult) or at the end of their life (when keeping inventory is expensive because the products will soon become obsolete). For another, as new products proliferate, demand is divided among a growing number of stock-keeping units (SKU’s). Even though manufacturers and retailers can forecast aggregate demand with some certainty, forecasting accurately how that demand will be distributed among the many SKU’s they sell is difficult.  For example, a company may be able to estimate accurately the aggregate number of shoes it will sell, but it may be uncertain about which specific types of shoes will sell more than other types.

Q35:
Which of the following most accurately describes the function of the last sentence in the passage (lines 35-40)?

A.      To cite a situation in which the aggregate demand is more important than the distribution of demand among SKU’s

B.       To refute an assertion about the side effects of flexible manufacturing

C.      To illustrate an assertion about companies’ ability to forecast demand

D.      To provide an example of ways in which companies address the difficulties of forecasting demand

E.       To note an exception to the author’s assertion about distributing demand among SKU’s
                

我觉得选D，有人说A， 大家觉得呢？

emiliar

C

cindykwan

为什么选C呢，last sentence 前一句是转折句，强调的是difficulty阿~~

Ethan0577

D

yky

c

tianle312

我会选D， 觉得 D比C 更扣住细节

zacharyzhang

前面都讨论过了。“ways in which companies address the difficulties ”大致是“解决困难的方法”的意思。

帮我倒杯水

文章中没说company 怎么“解决”difficulty

C

laipiyu

C

C包含了两方面，D只提到一方面。常用的trick：用部分混淆整体。

junyue

选Ｃ