Correct Answer: how much hospitals should charge patients to park
Passage Reference: the province’s review of hospital parking fees has my full attention
Why this is correct: The blogger is paying close attention to the province’s review of hospital parking fees. Every other paragraph reports a view on what patients and families should pay to park.
Tips: For a “mainly about” question, notice what every paragraph keeps returning to. The mother’s story and each speaker’s view all point to one question.
Why the other options are wrong:
- whether hospitals should add radiation machines: The writer’s mother had radiation therapy, but buying more machines is never discussed.
- how to hire more staff for cancer care: Nurses come up only because they might lose time finding a space. Hiring more staff is not the topic.
- why bus fares to hospitals keep rising: Yeung talks about bus service and a shuttle, but nobody mentions rising bus fares.
Correct Answer: Cormac Sinclair
Passage Reference: free parking for everyone, he warns, would push the cost onto wards that already lack nurses
Why this is correct: Cormac Sinclair, the facilities director, warns that free parking for everyone would push the cost onto wards that already lack nurses.
Tips: Two speakers warn about free parking, so read both warnings to the end. Then check which one names a cost inside the hospital.
Why the other options are wrong:
- Estelle Boudreau: Estelle Boudreau wants the first week free and a low cap after it. She never says free parking would hurt the wards.
- Suki Yeung: Suki Yeung warns that free parking would pull more single drivers toward the emergency entrance. That is a traffic worry, not a cost to the wards.
- Nikhil Arsenault: Nikhil Arsenault wants free accessible stalls and some paid ones for quick visits. The warning about the wards comes from Sinclair.
Correct Answer: diaries of families leaving appointments to move their cars
Passage Reference: many families described leaving a waiting room halfway through an appointment to move the car before the meter ran out
Why this is correct: Boudreau wants treatment parking free for a week and capped after that. Diaries showing families leaving appointments to move their cars show how fees hurt patients, which supports her plan.
Tips: First find the proof Boudreau’s group gathered. The right choice is evidence of that same kind, said in different words.
Why the other options are wrong:
- figures showing lot fees pay for snow clearing: Fees paying for snow clearing would back Sinclair, who says lot revenue pays for such services. They do not support Boudreau.
- a study of bus routes that miss the hospital: Poor bus routes would support Yeung’s call for better transit before free lots, not Boudreau’s cap.
- reports that booths close before evening visits end: Booths closing early would support Arsenault’s call for plate cameras, not Boudreau’s point about treatment costs.
Correct Answer: a frequent shuttle would run before lots go free
Passage Reference: only if a shuttle every ten minutes from the closest rapid-transit stop is running before any lot goes free all day
Why this is correct: Yeung could accept Boudreau’s cap only if a shuttle every ten minutes is running first. It must run from the closest rapid-transit stop before any lot goes free all day.
Tips: Read Yeung’s condition to the end. Then match its idea in other words, not its exact words.
Why the other options are wrong:
- every lot would go free on the first day: Making every lot free at once is what Yeung wants to prevent until a shuttle is running.
- the hospital would build a bigger garage: Yeung wants fewer people driving in, so a bigger garage is the opposite of her aim. She asks for a shuttle.
- bus fares to the hospital would be cut: Yeung asks for a frequent shuttle, not cheaper bus fares.
Correct Answer: from anger toward a compromise
Passage Reference: I came to this review angry ... A free first week, a low cap after that and a real shuttle sounds like a fair deal to me
Why this is correct: The blogger says “I came to this review angry”. Then the picture of the nurses changes things. The writer settles on a middle plan: a free first week, a low cap and a shuttle.
Tips: For a question about how a feeling changes, find how the writer feels at the start and at the end. Then test each choice.
Why the other options are wrong:
- from hope toward bitter doubt: The writer starts angry, not hopeful. The post ends with a plan that sounds like a fair deal, not with bitterness.
- from calm interest toward outrage: Notice that the writer is angry at the start and calmer at the end, which is the reverse of this pattern.
- from support toward flat refusal: The writer does not end by refusing anything. The last paragraph proposes a fair deal at the public session.
Correct Answer: cameras that read licence plates
Passage Reference: accessible stalls should be free and handled by cameras that read licence plates
Why this is correct: Arsenault argues that accessible stalls should be free and handled by cameras that read licence plates.
Tips: The comment names Arsenault, so go back to his sentence about accessible stalls. Look at it to the end and put his idea in your own words.
Why the other options are wrong:
- attendant booths open until dusk: Arsenault criticizes attendant booths because they shut at dusk. He wants cameras instead.
- permits given out at the clinic: Arsenault never mentions clinic permits. He wants cameras that read plates.
- a monthly pass for each patient: Nobody suggests monthly passes. Arsenault’s idea is plate-reading cameras.
Correct Answer: linked to the booking system
Passage Reference: She also wants discounts to happen automatically through the hospital’s booking system for appointments
Why this is correct: Boudreau wants discounts to happen automatically through the hospital’s booking system for appointments.
Tips: Find the sentence where Boudreau explains how discounts should work. Match her idea to a choice in other words.
Why the other options are wrong:
- stamped by hand at each clinic: Boudreau wants to move away from paper stubs because they go missing at clinic desks.
- handled by a parking attendant: Boudreau never mentions attendants. She wants the booking system to apply discounts on its own.
- mailed to families after treatment: Nothing is said about mailing anything. The discount should happen automatically.
Correct Answer: someone in for a quick test can find a space
Passage Reference: he thinks Sinclair has a point about charging for a share of the stalls, so someone popping in for a quick blood test can find a space
Why this is correct: Arsenault agrees with Sinclair that some stalls should still cost money. That way, someone popping in for a quick blood test can find a space.
Tips: The blank comes after “so that”, so it asks for a reason. Look at the sentence where Arsenault agrees with the facilities director and read to the end.
Why the other options are wrong:
- the hospital can hire more nurses for the wards: Arsenault never talks about hiring nurses. The wards and their nurses come up only in Sinclair’s warning about free parking.
- the booths can stay open later at night: Arsenault wants cameras instead of attendant booths that shut at dusk. He does not ask for longer booth hours.
- visitors stop parking on the side streets: Side streets are never mentioned in the blog post. Arsenault’s reason is about finding a space for a quick visit.
Correct Answer: more single drivers near the emergency entrance
Passage Reference: free parking with no better bus service would pull even more single drivers toward the emergency entrance
Why this is correct: Yeung points out that free parking with no better bus service would pull even more single drivers toward the emergency entrance.
Tips: Yeung’s warning is in the first sentence about her. Read it to the end and put her worry in your own words.
Why the other options are wrong:
- higher bus fares for hospital visitors: Yeung talks about bus service, not bus fares.
- longer waits at the clinic desks: Clinic desks come up only in Boudreau’s point about lost paper stubs, not in Yeung’s warning.
- empty stalls in the far lot: Yeung expects more drivers, not empty stalls. The far lot is mentioned only by Sinclair.
Correct Answer: drove a parent to weeks of treatment
Passage Reference: For five weeks last winter I drove my mother to radiation therapy
Why this is correct: In the first paragraph, you learn that the writer drove their mother to radiation therapy every weekday for five weeks.
Tips: The comment asks about the writer’s own story. Go back to the opening paragraph and read what it says about the writer.
Why the other options are wrong:
- works nights at the cancer centre: The writer visited the cancer centre as a driver, not as a worker.
- sat on the province’s parking review: The writer is following the review and plans to speak at a public session, not sitting on it.
- parked for free as a volunteer: The blogger paid about $450 to park, so the parking was not free.
