GMAT考試:2011年GMAT考試閱讀材料13(附答案)(2)

Given the great uncertainty of many of the management issues that they face， senior managers often instigate a course of action simply to learn more about an issue. They then use the results of the action to develop a more complete understanding of the issue. One implication of thinking/acting cycles is that action is often part of defining the problem， not just of implementing the solution.
    1. According to the passage， senior managers use intuition in all of the following ways EXCEPT to
    （A） speed up of the creation of a solution to a problem
    （B） identify a problem
    （C） bring together disparate facts
    （D） stipulate clear goals
    （E） evaluate possible solutions to a problem
    2. The passage suggests which of the following about the “writers on management” mentioned in line 12？
    （A） They have criticized managers for not following the classical rational model of decision analysis.
    （B） They have not based their analyses on a sufficiently large sample of actual managers.
    （C） They have relied in drawing their conclusions on what managers say rather than on what managers do.
    （D） They have misunderstood how managers use intuition in making business decisions.
    （E） They have not acknowledged the role of intuition in managerial practice.