关于prep essay7是否答案错了？

gamxiaoyuan

The United States hospital industry is an unusual market in that nonprofit and for-profit producers exist simultaneously.  Theoretical literature offers conflicting views on whether nonprofit hospitals are less financially efficient.  Theory suggests that nonprofit hospitals are so much more interested in offering high-quality service than in making money that they frequently input more resources to provide the same output of service as for-profit hospitals.  This priority might also often lead them to be less vigilant in streamlining their services--eliminating duplication between departments, for instance.  Conversely, while profit motive is thought to encourage for-profit hospitals to attain efficient production, most theorists admit that obstacles to that efficiency remain.  For-profit hospital managers, for example, generally work independently of hospital owners and thus may not always make maximum financial efficiency their highest priority.  The literature also suggests that widespread adoption of third-party payment systems may eventually eliminate any such potential differences between the two kinds of hospitals.  
      The same literature offers similarly conflicting views of the efficiency of nonprofit hospitals from a social welfare perspective. Newhouse (1970) contends that nonprofit hospital managers unnecessarily expand the quality and quantity of hospital care beyond the actual needs of the community, while Weisbrod (1975) argues that nonprofit firms--hospitals included--contribute efficiently to community welfare by providing public services that might be inadequately provided by government alone.

Which of the following best describes the overall content of the second paragraph of the passage?
(A) It describes views concerning a particular aspect of one of the types of hospitals discussed earlier.
(B) It describes an additional benefit of one of the types of hospitals discussed earlier.
(C) It offers a potential solution to a problem inherent in the structure of the United States hospital industry.
(D) It provides an additional contrast between the two types of hospitals discussed earlier.
(E) It describes one of the consequences of the character of the United States hospital market.
这题破解的答案选A，但是我到国外的网站上看，老外选的是C，谁能给个权威的解答？

Mrfish

C solution?

额, 我想知道为什么不能选D....

chenbhan

1、注意关键词——while，说明讲了两点。一点说npo不好，一点说npo好,但讲的都是non-profit的，没有讲for-profit。2、而D选项说的是对non-profit和for-profit进行了另一个对比，显然错。


所以不能选D。

doreenfu

谁能给翻译一下A 选项