[求助]T-7-Q23-Q25

marsa1989

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

我选C，但是看答案给的D，我感觉那个an example of ways不对啊。。。请牛牛指点！！！

presillia

同问！

marsa1989

顶一下

dianecarton

最后一句就是用一个例子总结全文，C的问题是这句话并没有要说公司的ability to forecast demand，

相反的这句话是侧重说明公司清楚消费者对总量的demand但不清楚那个款式买的好，哪个款式买的差，而这正式公司在forecast demand中的困难。

D很明确的总结了这一点。ways in which 没毛病

marsa1989

D的address the difficulties of是解决困难的意思啊。。。还是不太明白

gracetin

不好意思 這題不是很懂~~~~

文中沒有提到 address the difficulties 相關的內容~~~~

blesspig

我也选C 同问

竹叶生姿

我第一次做选的是D,第二次选的是C.同意楼上的观点:文中沒有提到 address the difficulties 相關的內容.

哪位NN能帮忙解释一下吗?

竹叶生姿

又看了看,还是觉得该选C.

请参考原来讨论的帖子:

http://forum.chasedream.com/dispbbs.asp?boardid=25&replyid=1612872&id=84234&page=1&skin=0&Star=1

jasonleo

我也是C