190.
Manufacturers of mechanical pencils make most of their profit on pencil leads rather than on the pencils themselves. The Write Company, which cannot sell its leads as cheaply as other manufacturers can, plans to alter the design of its mechanical pencil so that it will accept only a newly designed Write Company lead, which will be sold at the same price as the Write Company’s current lead.
Which of the following, if true, most strongly supports the Write Company’s projection that its plan will lead to an increase in its sales of pencil lead?
(A) First-time buyers of the mechanical pencils tend to buy the least expensive mechanical pencils available.
(B) Annual sales of mechanical pencils are expected to triple over the next five years.
(C) A Write Company executive is studying ways to reduce the cost of manufacturing pencil leads.
(D) A rival manufacture recently announced similar plans to introduce a mechanical pencil that would accept only the leads produced by that manufacturer.
(E) In extensive text marketing, mechanical-pencil users found the new Write Company pencil markedly superior to other mechanical pencils they had used.
190.
The passage presents difficulties the Write Company has in selling pencil leads and making a profit, and then presents a plan the company has: to produce a pencil that will accept only a special lead of the company’s own. You are asked to find something that supports the company’s projection that its sales of pencil leads will increase as a result.
Choice E is he best answer since the evident superiority of the redesigned pencil gives consumers an incentive to buy it. Once consumers have bought the pencil, sales of the special leads for it will follow, so the company’s sales of lead are likely to increase.
Choice A provides no support for the company’s projection, since there is no indication that the company’s redesigned pencil will be very inexpensive. Choice B implies that sales of pencil leads will increase in general, but gives no indication that the Write Company’s sales will increase, and in particular it gives no indication that the particular plan that the company has adopted will cause its sales to increase. The plan as described is to sell the special leads at the same price as current leads, so even if the study described in choice C proves successful, the most that could be achieved would be an increase in profits, not in sales. With respect to choice D, the fact that another manufacturer is considering the same strategy does not help answer the question at issue here-whether this will be a successful strategy for the Write Company-and thus gives no support to the company’s projection.
A certain automaker aims to increase its market share by deeply discounting its vehicles’ prices for the next several months. The discounts will cut into profits, but because they will be heavily advertised the manufacturer hopes that they will attract buyers away from rival manufacturers’ cars. In the longer term, the automaker envisions that customers initially attracted by the discounts may become loyal customers.
In assessing the plan’s chances of achieving its aim, it would be most useful to know which of the following?
A. Whether the automaker’s competitors are likely to respond by offering deep discounts on their own products
B. Whether the advertisements will be created by the manufacturer’s current advertising agency
C. Whether some of the automaker’s models will be more deeply discounted than others
D. Whether the automaker will be able to cut costs sufficiently to maintain profit margins even when the discounts are in effect
E. Whether an alternative strategy might enable the automaker to enhance its profitability while holding a constant or diminishing share of the market[A]
这两题的区别想了半天仍没有明白
OG190 的D的解释如下
With respect to choice D, the fact that another manufacturer is considering the same strategy does not help answer the question at issue here-whether this will be a successful strategy for the Write Company-and thus gives no support to the company’s projection.
说明D的竞争者采用相同策略与结论 W采用的计划能否促使铅笔辛的销售增加无关
而GWD8-12 的答案是A 说明竞争者是可以影响公司的策略的
为何两者不同 一个是无关 一个是答案 是因为结论不同呢 我没读出来 还是因为其它什么原因呢
谢谢 | 
