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韩玄宝

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.
我选B 答案A   有懂的同学帮忙解答

韩玄宝

B选项说的additional benefit在原文中没有体现啊。原文2段只是从social welfare的角度分析non profit hospital efficieny,然后提到了2个学者的不同观点而已。
A选项中的views指的就是2段中两个人的views，具体是什么样的view呢，views后面的后置定语concerning a particular aspect of one of the hosopital说明了是从social welfare的角度来看待non profit hospital efficiency的views。

Hope it helps.

-- by 会员 lexipaula (2012/3/16 20:05:26)

谢谢你啊~豁然开朗的说~

lexipaula

B选项说的additional benefit在原文中没有体现啊。原文2段只是从social welfare的角度分析non profit hospital efficieny,然后提到了2个学者的不同观点而已。
A选项中的views指的就是2段中两个人的views，具体是什么样的view呢，views后面的后置定语concerning a particular aspect of one of the hosopital说明了是从social welfare的角度来看待non profit hospital efficiency的views。

Hope it helps.