求助 GWD 7-23 GWDTN 22-35

henryest

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

答案选D 我选的C 我觉得答案错了,你们说呢

avenue5th

I am with you. I choose C as well. I think

address means "if you address a problem, you start trying to solve it" from Longman, but the passage doesn't say the company start to solve the problem. It just give an example to illustrate that the company has the problem

lovedoublej

我也是C。。。怎么看都是答案错了吧好象。。。求高手指导

DXDWSY

> I am with you. I choose C as well.

Second this.

lenghong

C是错的，答案是对的。最后一句是对倒数第二句的解释，倒数第二句是和段落第一句同义的，也是本段的中心意思。即使有能力对产品总量的需求做出相对准确的预测，企业也很难对其各型号产品的具体需求做出精确判断，从而倒致要么供应不足，要么供给过剩。全文的目的是强调企业无法做出精准判断。最后一句给出了这个例子。C的意思是最后一句对企业的预测能力给出了肯定的例证。注意：assertion一词带有正面肯定的隐含意思。

monkeyjjl

NND，我的答案版本是C啊，我自己做的时D，楼上说的有道理，注意：assertion一词带有正面肯定的隐含意思。

myungryong

尽管厂商能预测出某个产品的需求，但精确的预测出该产品各个型号的

需求是困难的。例如，一家公司预测出了鞋子的需求量，但不能确定各种鞋子的需求量。

C. 对公司预测需求能力论断的说明。

D. 为公司解决预测需求困难的方法提供例证。注意是an example of ways，

即ways to address the difficulties。
【文中只是说预测有困难，并没有给出解决困难的方法】

haoqianruhaos

自己选的D，但是仔细琢磨了答案后觉得C应该是对的，D选项To provide an example of ways in which companies address the difficulties of forecasting demand，这句话的意思应该是提供了一个例子，这个例子是公司解决预测需求这一难题的方法。