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GMAT Section 3: Verbal Ability Questions 181–185 (page: 38)

Updated On: 9-Feb-2026

Are you still reading the other newspaper in town? Did you know that the Daily Bugle is owned by an out-of- town business syndicate that couldn’t care less about the people of Gotham City? Read the Daily Clarion, the only real voice of the people of Gotham City!
Which of the following most directly refutes the argument raised in the advertisement above?

  1. Over half of the advertising revenues of the Daily Clarion come from firms whose headquarters are located outside of Gotham City.
  2. The Daily Clarion usually devotes more of its pages to out-of-town news than does the Daily Bugle.
  3. Nearly 40 percent of the readers of the Daily Clarion reside outside the limits of Gotham City.
  4. The editor-in-chief and all the other members of the editorial staff of the Daily Bugle have lived and worked in Gotham City for ten years or more.
  5. The Daily Bugle has been published in Gotham City for a longer time than has the Daily Clarion.

Answer(s): D



The earth’s resources are being depleted much too fast. To correct this, the United States must keep its resource consumption at present levels for many years to come.

The argument above depends on which of the following assumptions?

  1. Per capita resource consumption in the United States is at an all-time high.
  2. The United States wastes resources.
  3. The United States uses more resources than any other country.
  4. The United States imports most of the resources it uses.
  5. Curbing U.S. resource consumption will significantly retard world resource depletion.

Answer(s): E



The earth’s resources are being depleted much too fast. To correct this, the United States must keep its resource consumption at present levels for many years to come.

Which of the following, if true, would most strengthen the argument above?

  1. New resource deposits are constantly being discovered.
  2. The United States consumes one-third of all resources used in the world.
  3. Other countries need economic development more than the United States does.
  4. Other countries have agreed to hold their resource consumption at present levels.
  5. The United States has been conserving resources for several years.

Answer(s): B



Alba: I don’t intend to vote for Senator Frank in the next election. She is not a strong supporter of the war against crime.
Tam: But Senator Frank sponsored the latest anticrime law passed by the Senate. Alba: If Senator Frank sponsored it, it can’t be a very strong anticrime law.
Which of the following identifies the most serious logical flaw in Alba’s reasoning?

  1. The facts she presents do not support her conclusion that Senator Frank is soft on crime.
  2. She assumes without proof that crime is the most important issue in the upcoming election.
  3. She argues in a circle, using an unsupported assertion to dismiss conflicting evidence.
  4. She attacks Senator Frank on personal grounds rather than on he merit as a political leader.
  5. In deciding not to vote for Senator Frank, she fails to consider issues other than crime.

Answer(s): C



Which of the following best completes the passage below?
the most serious flaw in television’s coverage of election campaigns is its tendency to focus on the horse-race side of politics—that is, to concentrate on the question “Who’s winning?” at the expense of substantive coverage of the issues and the candidates’ positions on them. The endless interviews with campaign managers, discussions of campaign strategies, and, especially, the obsession with opinion polls have surrounded elections with the atmosphere of a football game or a prizefight. To reform this situation, a first step might well be

  1. a shortening of the length of election campaigns to a period of six weeks
  2. a stringent limit on campaign spending
  3. a reduction in the television coverage of opinion polls during election campaigns
  4. the publication and distribution of voter-education literature to inform the public about each candidate’s position on the major issues
  5. a limit on the length and number of political advertisements broadcast on television

Answer(s): C



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