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GMAT GMAT SECTION 3: VERBAL ABILITY Exam
GMAT Section 3: Verbal Ability (Page 13 )

Updated On: 30-Jan-2026
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Today’s low gasoline prices make consumers willing to indulge their preference for larger cars, which consume greater amounts of gasoline as fuel. So United States automakers are unwilling to pursue the development of new fuel-efficient technologies aggressively. The particular reluctance of the United States automobile industry to do so, however, could threaten the industry’s future.
Which of the following, if true, would provide the most support for the claim above about the future of the United States automobile industry?

  1. A prototype fuel-efficient vehicle, built five years ago, achieves a very high 81 miles per gallon on the highway and 63 in the city, but its materials are relatively costly.
  2. Small cars sold by manufacturers in the United States are more fuel efficient now than before the sudden jump in oil prices in 1973.
  3. Automakers elsewhere in the world have slowed the introduction of fuel-efficient technologies but have pressed ahead with research and development of them in preparation for a predicted rise in world oil prices.
  4. There are many technological opportunities for reducing the waste of energy in cars and light trucks through weight, aerodynamic drag, and braking friction.
  5. The promotion of mass transit over automobiles as an alternative mode of transportation has encountered consumer resistance that is due in part to the failure of mass transit to accommodate the wide dispersal of points of origin and destinations for trips.

Answer(s): C



An experiment was done in which human subjects recognize a pattern within a matrix of abstract designs and then select another design that completes that pattern. The results of the experiment were surprising. The lowest expenditure of energy in neurons in the brain was found in those subjects who performed most successfully in the experiments.
Which of the following hypotheses best accounts for the findings of the experiment?

  1. The neurons of the brain react less when a subject is trying to recognize patterns than when the subject is doing other kinds of reasoning.
  2. Those who performed best in the experiment experienced more satisfaction when working with abstract patterns than did those who performed less well.
  3. People who are better at abstract pattern recognition have more energy-efficient neural connections.
  4. The energy expenditure of the subjects brains increases when a design that completes the initially recognized pattern is determined.
  5. The task of completing a given design is more capably performed by athletes, whose energy expenditure is lower when they are at rest than is that of the general population.

Answer(s): A



Cable-television spokesperson: Subscriptions to cable television are a bargain in comparison to “free” television. Remember that “free” television is not really free. It is consumers, in the end, who pay for the costly advertising that supports “free” television.
Which of the following, if true, is most damaging to the position of the cable-television spokesperson?

  1. Consumers who do not own television sets are less likely to be influenced in their purchasing decisions by television advertising than are consumers who own television sets.
  2. Subscriptions to cable television include access to some public-television channels, which do not accept advertising.
  3. For locations with poor television reception, cable television provides picture quality superior to that provided by free television.
  4. There is as much advertising on many cable-television channels as there is on “free” television channels.
  5. Cable-television subscribers can choose which channels they wish to receive, and the fees vary accordingly.

Answer(s): D



A researcher studying drug addicts found that, on average, they tend to manipulate other people a great deal more than non addicts do. The researcher concluded that people who frequently manipulate other people are likely to become addicts.
Which of the following, if true, most seriously weakens the researcher’s conclusion?

  1. After becoming addicted to drugs, drug addicts learn to manipulate other people as a way of obtaining drugs.
  2. When they are imprisoned, drug addicts often use their ability to manipulate other people to obtain better living conditions.
  3. Some non addicts manipulate other people more than some addicts do.
  4. People who are likely to become addicts exhibit unusual behavior patterns other than frequent manipulation of other people.
  5. The addicts that the researcher studied were often unsuccessful in obtaining what they wanted when they manipulated other people.

Answer(s): E



Among the more effective kinds of publicity that publishers can get for a new book is to have excerpts of it published in a high-circulation magazine soon before the book is published. The benefits of such excerption include not only a sure increase in sales but also a fee paid by the magazine to the book’s publisher.
Which of the following conclusions is best supported by the information above?

  1. The number of people for whom seeing an excerpt of a book in a magazine provides an adequate substitute for reading the whole book is smaller than the number for whom the excerpt stimulates a desire to read the book.
  2. Because the financial advantage of excerpting a new book in a magazine usually accrues to the book’s publisher, magazine editors are unwilling to publish excerpts from new books.
  3. In calculating the total number of copies that a book has sold, publishers include sales of copies of magazines that featured an excerpt of the book.
  4. The effectiveness of having excerpts of a book published in a magazine, measured in terms of increased sales of a book, is proportional to the circulation of the magazine in which the excerpts are published.
  5. Books that are suitable for excerpting in high-circulation magazines sell more copies than books that are not suitable for excerpting.

Answer(s): E



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