1. One way to judee the performance of a company is to compare it with other companies. This technique, coomonly 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 follwoing, 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 comparison 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 theri adoption of practices that take advantae of the special circumstances of their products of markets.
Answer is E. 问题在讨论以非竞争者为基点进行的对比的取非, 那D有什么不对呢?----经理们有发现----应为无关选项.
2.A group of scientists studying calcium metabolism in lab rats discovered that removing the rats' having substantially lowr than normal levels of calcium in their blood. This discovery led the scientists to hypothesize that the level of the function of the parathyroid glad is to regulate the level of calcium in the blood by raising that level when if falls below the normal range. In a further experiment, the scientsts removed not only the prathyroid glad but also the adreanal gland from rats. They made the surprising discovery that the level of calcium in the rats' blood decreased much less sharply than when the parathyroid gland alone was removed.
Which one of the following if true explains the surprising discovery in a way most consistent with the scientists' hypothesis?
A. The adrenal gland acts to lower the level of calcium in the blood.
B. The adrenal gland and the parathyroid gland play the same role in regulating calcium blood levels.
C. The absence of a parathyroid gland causes the adrenal gland to increase the level of calcium in the blood.
D. E are irrelatived choices.
ANSWER IS A. B 有什么不对呢? 如果ADRENAL GLAND 的作用与PARATHYROID 的不一样, 原文不就被削弱了么? |