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GMAT GMAT SECTION 3: VERBAL ABILITY Exam
GMAT Section 3: Verbal Ability (Page 29 )

Updated On: 30-Jan-2026
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If there is an oil-supply disruption resulting in higher international oil prices, domestic oil prices in open-market countries such as the United States will rise as well, whether such countries import all or none of their oil.
Which of the following conclusions is best supported by the statement above?

  1. Domestic producers of oil in open-market countries are excluded from the international oil market when there is a disruption in the international oil supply.
  2. International oil-supply disruptions have little, if any, effect on the price of domestic oil as long as an open- market country has domestic supplies capable of meeting domestic demand.
  3. The oil market in an open-market country is actually part of the international oil market, even if most of that country’s domestic oil is usually sold to consumers within its borders.
  4. Open-market countries that export little or none of their oil can maintain stable domestic oil prices even when international oil prices rise sharply.
  5. If international oil prices rise, domestic distributors of oil in open-market countries will begin to import more oil than they export.

Answer(s): C



The average normal infant born in the United States weighs between twelve and fourteen pounds at the age of three months. Therefore, if a three-month-old child weighs only ten pounds, its weight gain has been below the United States average.
Which of the following indicates a flaw in the reasoning above?

  1. Weight is only one measure of normal infant development.
  2. Some three-month-old children weigh as much as seventeen pounds.
  3. It is possible for a normal child to weigh ten pounds at birth.
  4. The phrase “below average” does not necessarily mean insufficient.
  5. Average weight gain is not the same as average weight.

Answer(s): E



Red blood cells in which the malarial-fever parasite resides are eliminated from a person’s body after 120 days. Because the parasite cannot travel to a new generation of red blood cells, any fever that develops in a person more than 120 days after that person has moved to a malaria-free region is not due to the malarial parasite.
Which of the following, if true, most seriously weakens the conclusion above?

  1. The fever caused by the malarial parasite may resemble the fever caused by flu viruses.
  2. The anopheles mosquito, which is the principal insect carrier of the malarial parasite, has been eradicated in many parts of the world.
  3. Many malarial symptoms other than the fever, which can be suppressed with antimalarial medication, can reappear within 120 days after the medication is discontinued.
  4. In some cases, the parasite that causes malarial fever travels to cells of the spleen, which are less frequently eliminated from a person’s body than are red blood cells.
  5. In any region infested with malaria-carrying mosquitoes, there are individuals who appear to be immune to malaria.

Answer(s): D



Fact 1: Television advertising is becoming less effective: the proportion of brand names promoted on television that viewers of the advertising can recall is slowly decreasing.
Fact 2: Television viewers recall commercials aired first or last in a cluster of consecutive commercials far better than they recall commercials aired somewhere in the middle.
Fact 2 would be most likely to contribute to an explanation of fact 1 if which of the following were also true?

  1. The average television viewer currently recalls fewer than half the brand names promoted in commercials he or she saw.
  2. The total time allotted to the average cluster of consecutive television commercials is decreasing.
  3. The average number of hours per day that people spend watching television is decreasing.
  4. The average number of clusters of consecutive commercials per hour of television is increasing.
  5. The average number of television commercials in a cluster of consecutive commercials is increasing.

Answer(s): E



Even though most universities retain the royalties from faculty members’ inventions, the faculty members retain the royalties from books and articles they write. Therefore, faculty members should retain the royalties from the educational computer software they develop.
The conclusion above would be more reasonably drawn if which of the following were inserted into the argument as an additional premise?

  1. Royalties from inventions are higher than royalties from educational software programs.
  2. Faculty members are more likely to produce educational software programs than inventions.
  3. Inventions bring more prestige to universities than do books and articles.
  4. In the experience of most universities, educational software programs are more marketable than are books and articles.
  5. In terms of the criteria used to award royalties, educational software programs are more nearly comparable to books and articles than to inventions.

Answer(s): E



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