旧prep 36题，求助！

gongbing66

6.    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.

想了一个晚上，还是很纠结，请大家拍醒我！
答案选E但我总觉得选B要好过E，看过好几个帖子还是没能把自己的思维扭转过来，Bible 上说，如果一个选项能eliminate the the weakness or flaw in the argument,也算是strenghten or support 了，如果选择外包而没有排除外包商进一步发展成竞争对手的话，这难道不算原argument 的一个weakness 吗？而我觉得B就很好的排除了竞争加剧而是利润下降的可能。
还有E “better spent attending to Vernon's core business”就一定利润增加吗？

天啊！我到底进入了哪个思维误区？请牛人指点！

scarlett006

这题为什么没有考虑B？
如果Vernon自己本来就是个承接外包业务的公司，比如他从甲方那儿得到外

包业务合同额是2000万，然后如果自己做的话，只能赚100万，但如果他再

分包给其他公司，比如支付给其分包的公司1600万，那他能赚400，也boost

了profit了啊？

不知道这么思考错在什么地方？

gongbing66

谢谢，我也只能这样理解了来说服自己了！

victoria_cc

Which of the following, if true, most strongly supports the prediction that Vernon's plan will achieve its goal?

请按照题意理解，而不是机械地去按图索骥。
C固然是排除了一个原argument没有考虑到的问题，但相比E，如此直接立竿见影的效果...你懂的。
GMAT的操行来说，如果没有E，其实选C是可以的，但是有了E，自然大家比比谁更合适。不是说那个选项也行，而是哪个选项最好。这种老生常谈看似简单，其实在做整个verbal的过程中真要细细体会。
不要着急。

kurtsniper

如果选择外包而没有排除外包商进一步发展成竞争对手的话，这难道不算原argument 的一个weakness 吗？而我觉得B就很好的排除了竞争加剧而是利润下降的可能。

你确定你说的是B？你说的是C吧？

这个道题Topway上发过好多贴。。说来说去都在就纠结CDE
看他们的解释大多都是说因为C只是说few become direct competitors ，就算成为competitor也不会说一定对原公司不利
然后E管理人员更多的关注核心业务加大了公司盈利的可能
只能说E比C更好吧

大N解释...