请教GWD T-3的四个答案

stanzafu

    

T-3-Q9-Q12
N-6-Q7-Q10
            

    

 

    

      In recent years, Western business
managers have been heeding the exhortations of business journalists and
academics to move their companies toward long-term, collaborative “strategic
partnerships” with their external business partners (e.g., suppliers). The experts’ advice comes
as 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. 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 unquestioning belief
within Western management circles in the value of strategic partnerships.
Indeed, in the automobile sector all three United States manufacturers and most
of their European competitors have launched programs to reduce their total
number of suppliers and move toward having strategic partnerships with a few.

    

      However, new research concerning
supplier relationships in various industries demonstrates that the widespread
assumption of Western managers and business consultants that Japanese firms
manage their suppliers primarily through strategic partnerships is (38) unjustified. Not only do Japanese
firms appear to conduct a far smaller proportion of their business through
strategic partnerships than is commonly believed, but they also make extensive
use of “market-exchange” relationships, in which either party can turn to the
marketplace and shift to different business partners at will, a practice
usually associated with Western manufacturers. (49)

    

 

    

        
    

 

    

T-3-Q9 N-6-Q7

    

The passage is primarily
concerned with

    

A.     
examining economic factors that may have contributed to the success of
certain Japanese companies

    

B.      
discussing the relative merits of strategic partnerships as compared
with those of market-exchange relationship

    

C.     
challenging the validity of a widely held assumption about how Japanese
firms operate

    

D.     
explaining why Western companies have been slow to adopt a particular
practice favored by Japanese companies

    

E.      
pointing out certain differences between Japanese and Western supplier
relationships

    

 

    

T-3-Q10 N-6-Q8

    

According to the passage,
the advice referred to in line 9 was a response to which of the following?

    

 

    

A.     
A recent decrease in the number of available suppliers within the
United States automobile industry

    

B.      
A debate within Western management circles during the past decade
regarding the value of strategic partnerships

    

C.     
The success of certain European automobile manufactures that have
adopted strategic partnerships

    

D.     
An increase in demand over the past decade for automobiles made by
Western manufacturers

    

E.      
Research comparing Japanese business practices with those of other
nations

    

T-3-Q11 N-6-Q9

    

The author mentions “the
success of a certain well-known Japanese automaker” (lines 15-17) most probably
in order to

    

 

    

A.     
demonstrate some of the possible reasons for the success of a certain
business practice

    

B.      
cite a specific case that has convinced Western business experts of the
value of a certain business practice

    

        

    
    

C.     
describe specific steps taken by Western automakers that have enabled
them to compete more successfully in a global market

    

D.     
introduce a paradox about the effect of a certain business practice in
Japan

    

E.      
indicate the need for Western managers to change their relationships
with their external business partners

    

T-3-Q12 N-6-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 manufacture 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.

    

 

请教NN们这篇文章的答案。
我看到两个版本，一个是CEBE,还有一个是EECE，到底哪一个正确的呢？

gnaixwh

我认为是CEBE，

第一题C。文章用整个第二段来阐述JAPANESE的方法的可疑之处，而整个文章没有着墨与描写WESTERN和JAPANESE之间的反差，只是说WESTERN一直以来都认为JAPANESE的方式是正确的。

第三题B。has led to an unquestioning belief within Western management circles 和B的描述“has convinced”相似。我当时选了E，不过现在看来B和原文最接近。

阅读很头疼啊。