Why it is “D”?

[Clarity]

Hi,I have a question that appears in my exam.
Could you please help me with question 9 ,please?
Why doesn’t it choose “A”?(The correct answer is D)
Many thanks!

 

[5jj]

Both A and D work for me.

 

[jutfrank]

The last part of the last sentence of the second paragraph makes it pretty clear that we're talking about a system.

 

[5jj]

The title of the article and and the use of 'services' three times in the first two paragraphs makes it possible that we are talking about a service.

 

[jutfrank]

The word this and the content of the third paragraph tell us she's referring to the online system mentioned previously. It's the system that makes her nursing work more effective, not the service—she's who provides the service.

 

[tedmc]

I would say the booking part, like other supporting services/systems such as administration, security, maintenance, etc., is incidental to the provision of professional nursing services.

 

[Tarheel]

"This long-term booking service can make nursing more effective" is logically the complete sentence in my humble opinion.

(The test doesn't make the choice. The one taking the test does that.)

 

[emsr2d2]

In BrE, I would say that "booking system" is the most common collocation.

 

[5jj]

I agree. I also agree that 'system' is a possible answer to the test question.

I simply feel that 'service' is also possible in that sentence.

 

[Clarity]

I think I get it.
Thank you!

 

[Barque]

I'd accept both "service" and "system" but I think I see why the person who came up with the question prefers "system".

By the way, Clarity, in your title, it should be "Why is it D?" and not "Why it is D?". Perhaps a typo, because I see that in your post you've used "Why doesn't it...?" which is correct.

 

[Clarity]

I'd accept both "service" and "system" but I think I see why the person who came up with the question prefers "system".

By the way, Clarity, in your title, it should be "Why is it D?" and not "Why it is D?". Perhaps a typo, because I see that in your post you've used "Why doesn't it...?" which is correct.

Well,that’s because the correct answer is D.
Oh, thank you for reminding me about the mistake.
As a 9th grader in China,I am not good at English after all.

 

[jutfrank]

I don't understand members' objections to D being the correct answer.

In BrE, I would say that "booking system" is the most common collocation.

It's not a matter of collocation but rather what the text means.

I simply feel that 'service' is also possible in that sentence.

I can't see how what is 'possible' is relevant. It's about what makes the most sense in the context. How does 'service' make more sense than 'system'?

I'd accept both "service" and "system" but I think I see why the person who came up with the question prefers "system".

The person who devised the test doesn't prefer anything. This is a cloze test, where certain words have been removed from a text and a selection of alternative words have been made up to comprise a multiple choice.

(The test doesn't make the choice. The one taking the test does that.)

What test?

 

[5jj]

I don't understand members' objections to D being the correct answer.

I don't object to it being a correct answer, but I feel there is another possible one.

I can't see how what is 'possible' is relevant.

If it's possible, It can't be wrong,

It's about what makes the most sense in the context.

Delete the words 'the most'.

How does 'service' make more sense than 'system'?

I did not say it did.

The person who devised the test doesn't prefer anything. This is a cloze test, where certain words have been removed from a text and a selection of alternative words have been made up to comprise a multiple choice.

And then the person who devised the test decreed that three of their suggestions were wrong.

 

[jutfrank]

I don't oblect to it being a correct answer, but I feel there is another possible one.

I think we're destined to disagree on this forever. In this kind of question, there is only one correct answer, which is the word that has been removed. That's the whole point of a multiple-choice cloze. We seem to be disagreeing on the idea that the point is to choose the single answer that makes the most sense—not any possible answers that make any sense. How can the test work if that's not the case?

And then the person who devised the test decreed that three of their suggestions were wrong.

Right. If one of the alternative options makes more sense than the 'correct' answer (which is very unlikely), then the test fails.

 

[5jj]

In this kind of question, there is only one correct answer,

There should be.

which is the word that has been removed.

In an ideal world.

Unfortunately that is not always the case.

If one of the alternative options makes more sense than the 'correct' answer (which is very unlikely), then the test fails.

It doesn't have to be more sense. If more that one option makes sense, then the test fails.

 

[Tarheel]

This reminds me of a game I've been playing recently. I'm supposed to find mate in three (for example), but if I find the "wrong" one I fail. But all checkmates are equal. How can one be better than another? The answer of course is that the computer is programmed to accept only one answer, and it doesn't matter if you can achieve the same result differently.

 

[jutfrank]

It doesn't have to be more sense. If more that one option makes sense, then the test fails.

It just doesn't work like that. Making sense is very nuanced, and works largely by degree—it's usually not so black and white as to say that something either makes sense or it doesn't. Sense comes from relations between words in a given context. Why isn't the answer to question 2 'blankets'? Or the answer to question 4 'tired'. Would you say that these answers don't make any sense at all?

 

[jutfrank]

But all checkmates are equal. How can one be better than another?

I see what you mean but I don't think this is analogous because words don't have equal meaning in a way that checkmates do.

 

[5jj]

As you wrote earlier, jutfrank,

I think we're destined to disagree on this forever.

I think I have said all I have to say on this - for the present thread!
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