Read the following article from a website.
Patients at a regional hospital in Moncton pay seventeen dollars a day to park, and families of people in long treatments say the bills add up fast. The province has asked a panel to review parking fees at all of its hospitals, and the panel will report to the health minister in April. More than three hundred people sent comments in the first two weeks, many of them about trips for cancer care and dialysis.
Lorraine Ouimet, who leads a support group for cancer patients, wants parking to be free for anyone on a long treatment plan. “One of our members drove her husband to radiation every weekday for six weeks and paid more than five hundred dollars just to park,” she said. “Nobody chooses to need that treatment. The parking bill feels like a fine for getting sick.” Ouimet also wants discounts applied automatically. “Families should not have to ask a clerk for a stamp while they are waiting for test results,” Ouimet said.
Lachlan Pemberton, who manages buildings for the regional health authority, says parking money pays for snow clearing, night lighting and the shuttle from the far lot. “If the lots bring in nothing, that money would come out of the same budget that hires nurses,” Pemberton said. He accepts lower rates for long treatments, but he warns that free parking for everyone would cause its own trouble. “The lot would be full by seven in the morning, and staff on the day shift would circle for twenty minutes,” he said.
Rosetta Pardo, who plans bus routes for the city, says the hospital is simply hard to reach any other way. “Right now a bus stops at the main door only once an hour,” she said. “Make parking free without better buses and you invite more cars.” Pardo would support a cap on fees if the province also paid for a bus every fifteen minutes. Theo Oduya, who uses a wheelchair and sits on the hospital’s patient council, wants accessible spaces to be free at all times. “Those spaces are not a convenience for us. They are the only way we get through the door,” Oduya said. He adds that the spaces near the main door are often blocked by delivery vans.
Using the drop-down menu (▾), choose the best option according to the information given on the website.
Paragraph four mainly describes 2..
Lorraine Ouimet would likely say that patients on long treatments 3..
Overall, the article suggests that 4..
According to Pemberton, free parking for everyone 5..
The following is a comment by a visitor to the website page. Complete the comment by choosing the best option to fill in each blank.
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Correct Answer: what hospitals should charge people to park
Why this is correct: A panel is reviewing parking fees at every hospital in the province. All four speakers give a view on those fees.
Passage Reference: The province has asked a panel to review parking fees at all of its hospitals
Tips: Look for each option in what Ouimet, Pemberton, Pardo and Oduya say. Check that your answer is something the article really discusses, not only a word it uses.
Why the other options are wrong:
- a plan to build a new parking garage: Nobody plans a new garage. The panel is reviewing fees.
- a new hospital for the Moncton area: The hospital already exists. No new hospital is planned.
- a support group for cancer patients: Ouimet leads a support group, but the article is not about the group.
Correct Answer: the needs of people who come by bus or in a wheelchair
Passage Reference: Right now a bus stops at the main door only once an hour
Why this is correct: Paragraph four quotes Pardo on how rarely the bus stops at the hospital. It also quotes Oduya on why accessible spaces matter to people who use a wheelchair.
Tips: Read “Paragraph four” by itself and name its job in a few plain words. Then pick the option that names the same job.
Why the other options are wrong:
- the costs families pay during long treatments: Family costs during treatment come in paragraph two, from Ouimet.
- what the money from the lots pays for: Pemberton explains this in paragraph three.
- a plan to move the main door of the hospital: The main door is mentioned, but nobody plans to move it.
Correct Answer: should not be billed for a need they never chose
Passage Reference: Nobody chooses to need that treatment.
Why this is correct: Ouimet says nobody chooses to need that treatment. She adds that the parking bill feels like a fine for getting sick, so she would say patients should not pay it.
Tips: Go back to Ouimet’s quotes and think about what they suggest. Rule out an option that matches another speaker’s words or nobody’s.
Why the other options are wrong:
- should park in the far lot and take the shuttle: Pemberton mentions the shuttle from the far lot, but nobody says patients should use it.
- should pay less only if better buses come: Linking a cap to better buses is Pardo’s idea, not Ouimet’s.
- should get the spaces closest to the main door: Spaces near the door come up in Oduya’s part. Ouimet wants parking to be free.
Correct Answer: most want patients to pay less, but that brings new problems
Passage Reference: Make parking free without better buses and you invite more cars.
Why this is correct: Most people quoted want patients to pay less in some way. Pemberton and Pardo show that cutting the fees could bring new trouble, such as budget gaps or more cars.
Tips: Hold each option up against Ouimet, Pemberton, Pardo and Oduya in turn. Keep it only if the article taken whole supports it.
Why the other options are wrong:
- free spaces for everyone would settle the matter for good: Pemberton warns that free parking for everyone would cause its own trouble.
- the panel has already decided that patients will pay less: The panel has not reported yet, so nothing has been decided.
- the cost is high, but nobody quoted wants it changed: Ouimet, Oduya and Pardo all want the charge changed in some way.
Correct Answer: would leave staff circling to find a space
Passage Reference: The lot would be full by seven in the morning, and staff on the day shift would circle for twenty minutes
Why this is correct: Pemberton warns that with free parking for everyone the lot would fill early. Staff arriving for the day shift would then drive around looking for a space.
Tips: Read what Pemberton says in his own quotes. Check each option against those lines, and drop any that he never says.
Why the other options are wrong:
- would bring more buses to the main door: Buses are Pardo’s subject. Pemberton does not link free parking to more buses.
- would mean fewer patients miss treatments: Nobody in the article says this.
- would be paid for by the province: Pemberton says the money would come out of the budget that hires nurses, not from the province.
Correct Answer: seventeen dollars
Passage Reference: Patients at a regional hospital in Moncton pay seventeen dollars a day to park
Why this is correct: Patients at a regional hospital in Moncton pay seventeen dollars a day to park.
Tips: The blank needs a price for one day. Several sums appear, so check which one is the daily rate.
Why the other options are wrong:
- sixteen dollars: The daily rate is a little higher than this.
- nineteen dollars: The daily rate is a little lower than this.
- twenty-two dollars: This amount is not in the article.
Correct Answer: a stamp
Passage Reference: Families should not have to ask a clerk for a stamp while they are waiting for test results
Why this is correct: Ouimet says families should not have to ask a clerk for a stamp while they wait for test results.
Tips: The commenter is repeating the support group leader’s words. Find what she says families must ask a clerk for now.
Why the other options are wrong:
- a receipt: Ouimet does not mention receipts. The commenter has receipts, but that is a different point.
- a refund: Refunds are not mentioned in the article.
- a permit: Permits are not mentioned in the article.
Correct Answer: fifteen minutes
Passage Reference: Pardo would support a cap on fees if the province also paid for a bus every fifteen minutes.
Why this is correct: Pardo would support a cap on fees if the province paid for a bus every fifteen minutes.
Tips: Two times appear in the bus planner’s words. One is how often the bus comes now, so choose the other one.
Why the other options are wrong:
- ten minutes: Pardo does not ask for buses this often.
- twenty minutes: Twenty minutes is how long Pemberton says staff would circle for a space. It is not the bus timing Pardo asks for.
- thirty minutes: This is not in the article. Right now the bus comes once an hour.
Correct Answer: April
Passage Reference: the panel will report to the health minister in April
Why this is correct: The panel will report to the health minister in April.
Tips: The commenter wants a month here. Look for when the review will be finished.
Why the other options are wrong:
- February: February is not mentioned in the article.
- June: June is not mentioned in the article.
- September: September is not mentioned in the article.
Correct Answer: delivery vans
Passage Reference: He adds that the spaces near the main door are often blocked by delivery vans.
Why this is correct: Oduya adds that the spaces near the main door are often blocked by delivery vans.
Tips: The commenter means the member of the patient council. Find what he says is often in the way.
Why the other options are wrong:
- taxis: Taxis are not mentioned in the article.
- staff cars: Pemberton talks about staff looking for spaces, but nobody says staff block the accessible spaces.
- tour buses: Tour buses are not mentioned in the article.
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