2011年GMAT考试阅读材料27(附答案)(2)

　　Together with such strategies, successful companies are also encouraging managers to focus on a wider set of objectives besides cutting costs. There is hope for manufacturing, but it clearly rests on a different way of managing.

　　1.The author of the passage is primarily concerned with

　　(A) summarizing a thesis

　　(B) recommending a different approach

　　(C) comparing points of view

　　(D) making a series of predictions

　　(E) describing a number of paradoxes

　　2. It can be inferred from the passage that the manufacturers mentioned in line 2 expected that the measures they implemented would

　　(A) encourage innovation

　　(B) keep labor output constant

　　(C) increase their competitive advantage

　　(D) permit business upturns to be more easily predicted

　　(E) cause managers to focus on a wider set of objectives

　　3. The primary function of the first paragraph of the passage is to

　　(A) outline in brief the author’s argument

　　(B) anticipate challenges to the prescriptions that follow

　　(C) clarify some disputed definitions of economic terms

　　(D) summarize a number of long-accepted explanations

　　(E) present a historical context for the author’s observations

　　4. The author refers to Abernathy’s study (line 36) most probably in order to

　　(A) qualify an observation about one rule governing manufacturing

　　(B) address possible objections to a recommendation about improving manufacturing competitiveness

　　(C) support an earlier assertion about one method of increasing productivity

　　(D) suggest the centrality in the United States economy of a particular manufacturing industry

　　(E) given an example of research that has questioned the wisdom of revising a manufacturing strategy

　　5. The author’s attitude toward the culture in most factories is best described as

　　(A) cautious

　　(B) critical

　　(C) disinterested

　　(D) respectful

　　(E) adulatory

　　6. In the passage, the author includes all of the following EXCEPT

　　(A) personal observation

　　(B) a business principle

　　(C) a definition of productivity

　　(D) an example of a successful company

　　(E) an illustration of a process technology

　　7. The author suggests that implementing conventional cost-cutting as a way of increasing manufacturing competitiveness is a strategy that is

　　(A) flawed and ruinous

　　(B) shortsighted and difficult to sustain

　　(C) popular and easily accomplished

　　(D) useful but inadequate

　　(E) misunderstood but promising

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