Tyliayss 姐姐 问个具体的阅读问题

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Most pre-1990 literature on businesses’ use of information technology (IT)—defined as any form of computer-based information system—focused on spectacular IT successes and reflected a general optimism concerning IT’s potential as a resource for creating competitive advantage.  But toward the end of the 1980’s, some economists spoke of a “productivity paradox”:  despite huge IT investments, most notably in the service sectors, productivity stagnated.  In the retail industry, for example, in which IT had been widely adopted during the 1980’s, productivity (average output per hour) rose at an average annual rate of 1.1 percent between 1973 and 1989, compared with 2.4 percent in the preceding 25-year period.  Proponents of IT argued that it takes both time and a critical mass of investment for IT to yield benefits, and some suggested that growth figures for the 1990’s proved these benefits were finally being realized.  They also argued that measures of productivity ignore what would have happened without investments in IT—productivity gains might have been even lower.  There were even claims that IT had improved the performance of the service sector significantly, although macroeconomic measures of productivity did not reflect the improvement.

GWD5-Q23:
The passage suggests that proponents of resource-based theory would be likely to explain IT’s inability to produce direct competitive advantages for individual firms by pointing out that
A.    IT is not a resource that is difficult to obtain
B.    IT is not an economically valuable resource
C.    IT is a complex, intangible resource
D.    economic progress has resulted from IT only in the service sector
E.     changes brought about by IT cannot be detected by macroeconomic measures

应该选A..我选了E 因为最后一句话..但是我怎么也不知道为什么会选A...(可能最近每天做N片阅读,做多了,想吐)  帮我看看哈 谢谢

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还是上辈子读过的这种恶心东西,在网上搜巴搜巴找了原文看了一遍

题目proponents of resource-based theory would be likely to explain IT’s inability to produce direct competitive advantages for individual firms by pointing out that
你肯定是把目光放在了proponents上吧~所以你贴出来了有proponents的那段

定位错误,正确的是找resource-based theory,文章定位点应该在第二段:
Resource-based
theory offers an answer, asserting that,
in general, firms gain competitive advan-
tages by accumulating resources that are
economically valuable, relatively scarce,
and not easily replicated. According to
a recent study of retail firms, which con-
firmed that IT has become pervasive
and relatively easy to acquire, IT by
itself appeared to have conferred little
advantage.

答案为什么选A自然就出来了

zmc_tim119UID: 2332884

汗 确实哦  我只注意了proponents 感觉第1段说的全是proponents 就在那找了 T_T

谢谢哈 又让你恶心了下 哈哈