When trying to identify new technologies that promise to transformthe marketplace, market researchers survey the managers of those companies thatare developing new technologies. Such managers have an enormous stake insucceeding, so they invariably overstate the potential of their newtechnologies. Surprisingly, however, market researchers typically do not surveya new technology’s potential buyers, even though it is the buyers-notthe producers-who will ultimately determine a technology’s commercial success.

　　当试图去鉴定新技术的时候，这种新技术是保证会改革市场的，市场研究员就调查了那些发展新技术的公司中的经理。这样的经理拥有巨大的利害关系在成功方面，因此他们始终如一地夸张他们新技术的潜能。然而令人惊奇的是，市场研究员通常不会调查一项新技术的潜在购买者，尽管是购买者——而不是生产者——将会最终决定一份技术的商业成功。

　　Which of the following, if true, best accounts for the typicalsurvey practices among market researchers?

　　下列哪一个选项如果成立，会最好的解释市场研究员的通常调查?

　　(A) If anew technology succeeds, the commercial benefits accrue largely to theproducers, not to the buyers, of that technology.

　　如果一项新技术成功，那么商业利润会增多主要是给技术的生产者，而不是技术的购买者。

　　(B) Peoplewho promote the virtues of a new technology typically fail to consider that theold technology that is currently in use continues to be improved, oftensubstantially.

　　提升一项新技术长处的人们经常大致上不会去考虑当前正在使用的老技术去继续改进。

　　(C) Investorsare unlikely to invest substantial amounts of capital in a company whose ownmanagers are skeptical about the commercial prospects of a new technology theyare developing.

　　投资者不可能投资实质资金的量在一个公司当中，这家公司自己的经理是表示怀疑的对于他们所开发的新技术的商业前景。

　　(D) Thepotential buyers for not-yet-available technologies can seldom be reliablyindentified.

　　潜在的当前不可行技术的购买者极少能够可信地鉴定。

　　(E) Thedevelopers of a new technology are general no better positioned than itspotential buyers to gauge how rapidly the new technology can be efficientlymass-produced.

　　一项新技术的开发者通常没有更好的比起新技术的潜在购买者，在估计新技术是如何迅速地有效扩大集中生产的。