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GMAT GMAT SECTION 3: VERBAL ABILITY Exam
GMAT Section 3: Verbal Ability (Page 10 )

Updated On: 30-Jan-2026
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The fossil record shows that the climate of North America warmed and dried at the end of the Pleistocene period. Most of the species of large mammals then living on the continent became extinct, but the smaller mammalian species survived.
Which of the following, if true, provides the best basis for an explanation of the contrast described above between species of large mammals and species of small mammals?

  1. Individual large mammals can, in general, travel further than small mammals and so are more able to migrate in search of a hospitable environment.
  2. The same pattern of comparative success in smaller, as opposed to larger, species that is observed in mammals is also found in bird species of the same period.
  3. The fossil record from the end of Pleistocene period is as clear for small mammals as it is for large mammals.
  4. Larger mammals have greater food and space requirements than smaller mammals and are thus less able to withstand environmental change.
  5. Many more of the species of larger mammals than of the species of smaller mammals living in North America in that period had originated in climates that were warmer than was that of North America before the end of the Pleistocene period.

Answer(s): D



Bonuses at DSR Industries cannot be awarded unless profits exceed a ten percent return on stockholders’ investments in the company. Higher profits mean higher bonuses. Therefore, bonuses in a year of general economic recession will be considerably lower than bonuses in a year of peak profits at DSR.
The conclusion above depends on the assumption that

  1. the firm will have relatively low profits in recession years
  2. the amount represented by a ten percent return on stockholders’ investments in the company will increase from year to year
  3. profits rarely exceed a ten percent return on stockholders’ investments in the company
  4. profits in excess of a ten percent return on stockholders’ investments in the company are all distributed in the form of bonuses
  5. bonuses at DSR never drop to zero

Answer(s): A



Which of the following, if true, is the most logical completion of the argument below?
The tax system of the Republic of Grootland encourages borrowing by granting its taxpayers tax relief for interest paid on loans. The system also discourages saving by taxing any interest earned on savings.
Nevertheless, it is clear that Grootland’s tax system does not consistently favor borrowing over saving, for if it did, there would be no

  1. tax relief in Grootland for those portions of a taxpayer’s income, if any, that are set aside to increase that taxpayer’s total savings
  2. tax relief in Grootland for the processing fees that taxpayers pay to lending institutions when obtaining certain kinds of loans
  3. tax relief in Grootland for interest that taxpayers are charged on the unpaid balance in credit card accounts
  4. taxes due in Grootland on the cash value of gifts received by taxpayers from banks trying to encourage people to open savings accounts
  5. taxes due in Grootland on the amount that a taxpayer has invested in interest-bearing savings accounts

Answer(s): A



Suitable habitats for gray wolves have greatly diminished in area. In spite of this fact, the most sensible course would be to refrain from reestablishing gray wolves in places where previously they have been hunted out of existence. Striving to bring back these animals to places where they will only face lethal human hostility is immoral.
The argument above depends on

  1. an appeal to an authority
  2. a belief that gray wolves are dangerous to human beings and livestock
  3. an assumption that two events that occur together must be causally connected
  4. an assumption that the future will be like the past
  5. a threat of violence against those persons presenting the opposing view

Answer(s): D



Researchers have found that when very overweight people, who tend to have relatively low metabolic rates, lose weight primarily through dieting, their metabolisms generally remain unchanged. They will thus burn significantly fewer calories at the new weight than do people whose weight is normally at that level. Such newly thin persons will, therefore, ultimately regain weight until their body size again matches their metabolic rate.
The conclusion of the argument above depends on which of the following assumptions?

  1. Relatively few very overweight people who have dieted down to a new weight tend to continue to consume substantially fewer calories than do people whose normal weight is at that level.
  2. The metabolisms of people who are usually not overweight are much more able to vary than the metabolisms of people who have been very overweight.
  3. The amount of calories that a person usually burns in a day is determined more by the amount that is consumed that day than by the current weight of the individual.
  4. Researchers have not yet determined whether the metabolic rates of formerly very overweight individuals can be accelerated by means of chemical agents.
  5. Because of the constancy of their metabolic rates, people who are at their usual weight normally have as much difficulty gaining weight as they do losing it.

Answer(s): A



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