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zlljolie

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.

正确选E，为什么不选A呢。我觉得A 也对啊。A从反面来说，没外包的都是成本不能再低的，反过来，已经外包的都是可以降低成本的，不是加强原文吗？
而E，我觉得是无关选项啊。本文FOCUS不是将外包与成本降低、利润增加的关系吗，怎么弄到经理了？

iamdurant

E我也没想明白，但是个人觉得你那样理解A就有过度推断的嫌疑了

iamdurant

个人对E有一些理解，不一定正确：
那些没有效率的任务耗费了经理们大量的时间，而这些时间是可以用在公司更核心的业务上去。这就说明了经理们没有更多的精力去提高公司内部的生产效率，而只能通过外包来降低成本，从而有更多profit

甜蜜小乌龟

我也觉得应该选A  因为肯定一项措施的正确性 正确答案通常是否定另一项措施不能达到目的来间接肯定这一项措施的正确性  A和E比起来A跟原文更相关啊...

Rainbeauty

A does not state clearly whether the activity of outsourcing can improve profitability!!!