GWD3-Q23

YEWCHOW

However, the relationship between top management decision-sharing and adherence to plans may be affected by a firm’s strategic mission (its fundamental approach to increasing sales revenue and market share, and generating cash flow and short-term profits).

GWD3-Q23:

Which of the following best describes the function of the first sentence of the second paragraph of the passage?

A.
To answer a question posed in the first sentence of the passage about why firms adopt particular strategic missions

B.
To refute an argument made in the first paragraph about how top management decision-making affects whether firms will adhere to their strategic plans

C.
To provide evidence supporting a theory introduced in the first paragraph about what makes firms adhere to or deviate from their strategic plants

D.
To qualify an assertion made in the preceding sentence about how top management decision-making affects the likelihood that firms will adhere to their strategic plans

E.
To explain a distinction relied on in the second paragraph (lines 17-68) regarding two different kinds of strategic missions

为什么选D呢？nn来救命。。。

michael_wind

qualify 在这里是限制的意思

gmatvictors

求教~~为什么B不对呢？

eeheaven

D选项是什么意思？

supermanlee

First paragraph have an statement that" top management decision-sharing may increase the likelihood that firms will adhere to their plans", and the second paragraph think"the relationship may be affected by a firm's strategic" -- The first sentence of the second paragraph doesn't "prove the statement in first paragraph wrong", rather than make it less absolute.

lanshichao92

好像有点明白，但E为什么不对呢？还有qualify确定是“限定”的意思吗？请NN指点！

djblues

好像有点明白，但E为什么不对呢？还有qualify确定是“限定”的意思吗？请NN指点！
lanshichao92 发表于 2011-6-13 19:32

    我开始也是选E，后来觉得其实并没有说distinction，只是说了造成后面的distinction的关键在于这个relationship，而如果qualify是修饰描述的意思，那么D应该是正确的，因为是对前面的话的进一步说明。

citidandan

I suppose that"qualify" means "make (a statement, etc) less general or extreme ".描述这种relationship的具体情况。
不过我还是不能理解E为何不对，请教大家：第二段第一句话中strategic mission (its fundamental approach to increasing sales revenue and market share, and generating cash flow and short-term profits)，括号里就是表明了the distinction that two different missions rely on呀？？

jasonlover

个人拙见，第二段第一句以However开始，显然表示了与第一段的紧密联系，而且上下两段为转折关系，所以，当问到第二段第一句作用时，应该跟多的是与第一段的联系，而E只是说明了该句话的内容。所以问function时，更多要从文章整体结构出发。

sunniers

第一段只是说top management decision-sharing ！may！ increase the (10) likelihood 。所以第二段的however,没有完全否认这个观点，只是说还有别的因素的影响。qualify是限定的意思，所以第二段第一句就是限定第一段的这句话，提供更多的应该的思考因素，即a firm’s strategic mission~