请教TN11Q9,答案是不是错了?

Resilient

    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-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

我选的B,答案是C,实在无法被答案说服, 请NN赐教!

Resilient

我刚查了以前的讨论，发现正确答案居然就是我选的B,可是我下载的TN24套题中附上的答案是C,在此澄清，以免误了本来作对题的兄弟姐妹！