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Companies that must determine well in advance of the selling season how many unites 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 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 s 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.
Which of the following most accurately describes the function of the last sentence in the passage (highlight)?
To cite a situation in which the aggregate demand is more important than the distribution of demand among SKU's
To refute an assertion about the side effects of flexible manufacturing
To illustrate an assertion about companies' ability to forecast demand
To provide an example of ways in which companies address the difficulties of forecasting demand
To note an exception to the author's assertion about distributing demand among SKU's
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正确答案是 C。选择 C 的原因是，最后一句话为文章提供了一个例子，证明了企业在预测需求方面的能力。文章指出，尽管制造商和零售商可以肯定地预测总体需求，但很难准确预测这种需求将如何分布在它们销售的许多 SKU 之间。最后一句话是关于鞋子的例子，表明企业可以准确地估计它们将出售多少双鞋子，但不确定哪种特定类型的鞋子会比其他类型的鞋子卖得更多。
D选项：address the difficulties是解决困难不是遭遇困难！！
句子作用题：为举例说明forecasting accurately how that demand will be distributed among the many SKU's they sell is difficult
address the difficulties解决困难
address the difficulties解决困难
address the difficulties是解决困难不是遭遇困难！
这个题在毕出老师的阅读理解书里出现过，但答案给的D，解释也只给了一点，当时就不太明白，原来是答案给错了...
D：注意重点在 an example of ways... 公司用来解决预测需求困难的方法
address the difficult 解决难题！！！！！！！！！
D. 提供了一种公司解决困难的方法，错误
C. 举例说明关于公司预测需求能力的主张，正确
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address the difficult 解决难题
to address the difficulties，解决难题；address the problem，解决问题
定语从句一定要分清了，不能当作是主句看；还有address！！
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d-To provide an example of ways in which companies address the difficulties of forecasting demand
是说companies address the difficulties of forecasting demand in sample ways-这是不对的，公司设法解决forecasting demand的difficulties的不同ways，这个不对。
应该是举例说明了公司面对的不同困难，而不是公司设法解决这些困难的方法。
重点在address：设法解决
to address the difficulties，解决难题；address the problem，解决问题
d-To provide an example of ways in which companies address the difficulties of forecasting demand
是说companies address the difficulties of forecasting demand in sample ways-这是不对的，公司设法解决forecasting demand的difficulties的不同ways，这个不对。
应该是举例说明了公司面对的不同困难，而不是公司设法解决这些困难的方法。
重点在address：设法解决
我觉得这里的addres依旧是阐述，提出的意思...真正说明这是个解决方法的应该是前者：To provide an example of ways...
address在gamt中常常出现的意思是“处理、解决”，
D是说example of ways 解决问题的方法，但其实只是想阐明问题。
address the difficulties：解决问题
answer D: "To provide an example of ways in which companies address the difficulties of forecasting demand"
According to the passage companies just have these difficulties and we don't know exactly do they do something about it or no. (logically they do, but passage doesn't mention it)
注意address the difficulties：解决问题
illustrate 和 provide an example可以在这里理解为一个意思吗？