A successful coffee stand that serves the workers in a large office building plans to increase its profits by adding oatmeal—a hot cereal popular among the workers—to its menu. The manager says that oatmeal is “the ultimate convenience food” because it can be served by the cup, as coffee is; further, offering oatmeal will enable the stand to get into the breakfast business without making a large investment, because it does not require elaborate cooking equipment.
Which of the following would, if true, most strengthen the likelihood that the manager's plan will achieve its goal?
Some of the office building's businesses have recently begun providing free coffee to their employees.
The ingredients needed to make oatmeal are inexpensive and do not spoil easily the way many fresh breakfast foods typically sold at coffee stands do.
In order to offer more flexible schedules to their workers, several businesses in the office building will soon be expanding their hours.
Supermarket sales of oatmeal and other cereals slowed this year following large gains last year.
Oatmeal manufacturers have recently reduced their oatmeal offerings, which had included oatmeal in microwaveable cups and convenient cereal bars made with rolled oats.
情景:一个成功的咖啡店计划提高收益,通过卖非常受workers 欢迎的oatmeal。
原因是:1. Oatmeal像咖啡一样容易被提供;2. 不需要额外的机器,即不需要额外投资。
问以下哪项可以加强此方案。
推理:
方案:开始卖oatmeal
目标:提高利润
选项分析:
A选项:一些商铺开始给他们的雇员提供免费咖啡:这与方案没有任何关系。
B选项:正确。制作oatmeal的原料成本很低,且不像咖啡店提供的其他新鲜的早餐容易变质:取非后——oatmeal的原料成本高且容易变质。那这里直接提供了一个方案的不可行:成本高和容易变质都会导致profit不容易增长,因为成本高了,达到削弱的目的。
C选项:为了给workers提供一个更灵活的日程表,一些商铺开始延长营业时间:这与方案没有任何关系。
D选项:继去年的高收益,今年超市的oatmeal和其他谷类食品销售有所减缓:与方案无关。
E选项:Oatmeal制造商最近开始减少他们的产品提供量,包含微波炉杯式的oatmeal和由燕麦卷制成的燕麦棒:制造商减少供应有可能暗示了市场对oatmeal需求的减少。但无论如何是无法加到加强作用的。
我开始以为CIn order to offer more flexible schedules to their workers, several businesses in the office building will soon be expanding their hours.
是expending hours的话会叫员工早点来上班,其实不是这样。
inexpensive=without making a large investment
do not spoil easily=does not require elaborate cooking equipment
通过增加oatmeal来增长利润,加强。A:免费咖啡可能降低购买oatmeal的欲望。B:原料便宜,不容易腐烂,这边其他早餐铺有优势,这是一个好处。 C:无关。 D:无关。 E:供应量减少,利润少。
D选项:继去年的高收益,今年超市的oatmeal和其他谷类食品销售有所减缓:与方案无关。
E选项:Oatmeal制造商最近开始减少他们的产品提供量,包含微波炉杯式的oatmeal和由燕麦卷制成的燕麦棒:制造商减少供应有可能暗示了市场对oatmeal需求的减少。但无论如何是无法加到加强作用的。
D中是超市的麦片销量,和本题咖啡店没有关系,是属于无关选项;而供应商是有潜在联系的。
题目确实有提到咖啡店生产O不需要大的投入,但是是because设备不贵,不是include。B讲的是生产O用的佐料也不贵,还不会坏,可以保存很久。这会增加咖啡店的利润。
background: oatmeal 1) 方便 2) 不需很大的投资
Plan: 将oatmeal加入菜单中;Goal:增加利润, strengthen?
choice a, 一些商铺开始给自己的员工提供免费的咖啡。 irrelevant
choice b, 制作oatmeal的原料很便宜,并且不像商铺其他出售的新鲜事物一样容易变质。correct,加强了成本相对比较低,并且提出另一个优势:保存容易
choice c,一些商铺很快会开始延长营业时间。 irrelevant
choice d, 超市今年的oatmeal和其他cereal的销量减慢,在去年的高收益之后。irrelevant
choice e, Oatmeal制造商最近开始减少他们的产品提供量,包含微波炉杯式的oatmeal和由燕麦卷制成的燕麦棒。 irrelevant,不可以脑补因为oatmeal制造商减少产量了人们因此去商铺购买,减产也有可能是因为市场对oatmeal需求减少了
这完全就是矮子之中找高个
B只是一种最无奈的答案