求救旧prep36题！拜托各位高人指点一下！

芽儿zhao

Outsourcing is the practice of obtaining from an independent supplier a product or service that a company has previously provided for itself. Vernon, Inc., a small manufacturing company that has in recent years experienced a decline in its profits, plans to boost its profits by outsourcing those parts of its business that independent suppliers can provide at lower cost than Vernon can itself.
Which of the following, if true, most strongly supports the prediction that Vernon's plan will achieve its goal?
(A) Among the parts of its business that Vernon does not plan to outsource are some that require standards of accuracy too high for most independent suppliers to provide at lower cost than Vernon can.
(B) Vernon itself acts as an independent supplier of specialized hardware items to certain manufacturers that formerly made those items themselves.
(C) Relatively few manufacturers that start as independent suppliers have been able to expand their business and become direct competitors of the companies they once supplied.
(D) Vernon plans to select the independent suppliers it will use on the basis of submitted bids.
(E) Attending to certain tasks that Vernon performs relatively inefficiently has taken up much of the time and effort of top managers whose time would have been better spent attending to Vernon's core business.
我怎么觉得E选项只是提到了managers,和profits的关系不大呢？我选的是C,为什么C不对呢？
麻烦各位了！谢谢谢谢！

alexlixin

题中的VERNON公司本身就是一个小的制造公司（SMALL），可以理解为它自己就是某一公司（假设为A公司）的独立供应商。这样，根据选项C，VERNON公司显然很难在为A公司生产的该产品上拓展业务，提高利润。

而E项，一个公司的高层经理的大部分时间和努力都花在跟同行其他制造商相比低效率，低利润的产品上而不能很好地发展其具有核心竞争力的产品，显然不能增加公司利润。而把这部分产品的订单转发出去，则能为公司节约成本同时节约高层经理的时间精力来拓展自己的核心产品，进一步扩大公司利润。

理解上可能与题目愿意有偏颇，请个人斟酌。

boozy

V公司打算把部分业务外包给价格更低的厂家，以提高利润。题目旧找到支持的选项。

C选项说，提供外包服务起家的小生产商很少能扩大生意，也很少能和发包商平起平坐。这个选项基本否定了V公司的努力，无论V是否外包，你的实力都不会有什么大的变化，更别提利润能否增长了。

E选项说，外包后V公司的经理们能更集中精力关注核心业务。这显然对提高利润是有好处的，虽然不一定真正提高利润。这个选项对题目的支持是有限的，如果选项中有比它更强的支持就不选它，但这里其它选项基本都是胡扯。