Reading Comprehension
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文章：
In recent years, Western business managers have been heeding the exhortations of business journalists and academics to move their companies toward long-term, collaborative "strategic partnerships" with their external business partners (e.g., suppliers). The experts' advice comes as a natural reaction to numerous studies conducted during the past decade that compared Japanese production and supply practices with those of the rest of the world. The link between the success of a certain well-known Japanese automaker and its effective management of its suppliers, for example, has led to an unquestioning belief within Western management circles in the value of strategic partnerships. Indeed, in the automobile sector all three United States manufacturers and most of their European competitors have launched programs to reduce their total number of suppliers and move toward having strategic partnerships with a few.
However, new research concerning supplier relationships in various industries demonstrates that the widespread assumption of Western managers and business consultants that Japanese firms manage their suppliers primarily through strategic partnerships is unjustified. Not only do Japanese firms appear to conduct a far smaller proportion of their business through strategic partnerships than is commonly believed, but they also make extensive use of "market-exchange" relationships, in which either party can turn to the marketplace and shift to different business partners at will, a practice usually associated with Western manufacturers.
However, new research concerning supplier relationships in various industries demonstrates that the widespread assumption of Western managers and business consultants that Japanese firms manage their suppliers primarily through strategic partnerships is unjustified. Not only do Japanese firms appear to conduct a far smaller proportion of their business through strategic partnerships than is commonly believed, but they also make extensive use of "market-exchange" relationships, in which either party can turn to the marketplace and shift to different business partners at will, a practice usually associated with Western manufacturers.
题目：
Which of the following is most clearly an example of the practice referred to in the highlighted text of the passage?
选项:
A、A department store chain that employs a single buyer to procure all the small appliances to be sold in its stores
B、An automobile manufacturer that has used the same supplier of a particular axle component for several years in a row
C、A hospital that contracts only with union personnel to staff its nonmedical positions
D、A municipal government that decides to cancel its contract with a waste disposal company and instead hire its own staff to perform that function
E、A corporation that changes the food-service supplier for its corporate headquarters several times over a five-year period as part of a cost-cutting campaign.
答案:
E
提问：
老师问一下d为什么不对，高亮部分我的理解是，日本公司不仅用strategic partnership，还用market-exchange relationship，在里面party可以与buisness发生转变，d说的government与party有点相似，然后谓语讲了与company发生的关系，感觉能对上，e的话没有什么感觉，感觉没提到相关的
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Which of the following is most clearly an example of the practice referred to in the highlighted text of the passage?Passage
In recent years, Western business managers have been heeding the exhortations of business journalists and academics to move their companies toward long-term, collaborative "strategic partnerships" with their external business partners (e.g., suppliers). The experts' advice comes as a natural reaction to numerous studies conducted during the past decade that compared Japanese production and supply practices with those of the rest of the world. The link between the success of a certain well-known Japanese automaker and its effective management of its suppliers, for example, has led to an unquestioning belief within Western management circles in the value of strategic partnerships. Indeed, in the automobile sector all three United States manufacturers and most of their European competitors have launched programs to reduce their total number of suppliers and move toward having strategic partnerships with a few.
However, new research concerning supplier relationships in various industries demonstrates that the widespread assumption of Western managers and business consultants that Japanese firms manage their suppliers primarily through strategic partnerships is unjustified. Not only do Japanese firms appear to conduct a far smaller proportion of their business through strategic partnerships than is commonly believed, but they also make extensive use of "market-exchange" relationships, in which either party can turn to the marketplace and shift to different business partners at will, a practice usually associated with Western manufacturers.
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题目问的是一个例子，而这个例子是文章中没有出现的，因此我推断文章要我读懂高亮的那段话然后根据高亮的话来分析选一个与之情况相符的例子。
高亮话其实没怎么读懂，只知道日本不仅用了战略合作伙伴方法并且也用了“market-exchang"伙伴关系的方法。然后政府也起了一些作用。。。
但是例子没有觉得一个与之有关啊！！！是因为我没看懂例子吗还是高亮话理解错呢？还是方法用错？
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