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GMAT GMAT SECTION 3: VERBAL ABILITY Exam
GMAT Section 3: Verbal Ability (Page 7 )

Updated On: 30-Jan-2026
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Useful protein drugs, such as insulin, must still be administered by the cumbersome procedure of injection under the skin. If proteins are taken orally, they are digested and cannot reach their target cells. Certain nonprotein drugs, however, contain chemical bonds that are not broken down by the digestive system. They can, thus, be taken orally.
The statements above most strongly support a claim that a research procedure that successfully accomplishes which of the following would be beneficial to users of protein drugs?

  1. Coating insulin with compounds that are broken down by target cells, but whose chemical bonds are resistant to digestion
  2. Converting into protein compounds, by procedures that work in the laboratory, the nonprotein drugs that resist digestion
  3. Removing permanently from the digestive system any substances that digest proteins
  4. Determining, in a systematic way, what enzymes and bacteria are present in the normal digestive system and whether they tend to be broken down within the body
  5. Determining the amount of time each nonprotein drug takes to reach its target cells

Answer(s): A



Country Y uses its scarce foreign-exchange reserves to buy scrap iron for recycling into steel. Although the steel thus produced earns more foreign exchange than it costs, that policy is foolish. Country Y’s own territory has vast deposits of iron ore, which can be mined with minimal expenditure of foreign exchange.
Which of the following, if true, provides the strongest support for Country Y’s policy of buying scrap iron abroad?

  1. The price of scrap iron on international markets rose significantly in 1987.
  2. Country Y’s foreign-exchange reserves dropped significantly in 1987.
  3. There is virtually no difference in quality between steel produced from scrap iron and that produced from iron ore.
  4. Scrap iron is now used in the production of roughly half the steel used in the world today, and experts predict that scrap iron will be used even more extensively in the future.
  5. Furnaces that process scrap iron can be built and operated in Country Y with substantially less foreign exchange than can furnaces that process iron ore.

Answer(s): E



Last year the rate of inflation was 1.2 percent, but for the current year it has been 4 percent. We can conclude that inflation is on an upward trend and the rate will be still higher next year.
Which of the following, if true, most seriously weakens the conclusion above?

  1. The inflation figures were computed on the basis of a representative sample of economic data rather than all of the available data.
  2. Last year a dip in oil prices brought inflation temporarily below its recent stable annual level of 4 percent.
  3. Increases in the pay of some workers are tied to the level of inflation, and at an inflation rate of 4 percent or above, these pay raises constitute a force causing further inflation.
  4. The 1.2 percent rate of inflation last year represented a ten-year low.
  5. Government intervention cannot affect the rate of inflation to any significant degree.

Answer(s): B



Because no employee wants to be associated with bad news in the eyes of a superior, information about serious problems at lower levels is progressively softened and distorted as it goes up each step in the management hierarchy. The chief executive is, therefore, less well informed about problems at lower levels than are his or her subordinates at those levels.
The conclusion drawn above is based on the assumption that

  1. problems should be solved at the level in the management hierarchy at which they occur
  2. employees should be rewarded for accurately reporting problems to their superiors
  3. problem-solving ability is more important at higher levels than it is at lower levels of the management hierarchy
  4. chief executives obtain information about problems at lower levels from no source other than their subordinates
  5. some employees are more concerned about truth than about the way they are perceived by their superiors

Answer(s): D



In the United States in 1986, the average rate of violent crime in states with strict gun-control laws was 645 crimes per 100,000 persons — about 50 percent higher than the average rate in the eleven states where strict gun-control laws have never been passed. Thus one way to reduce violent crime is to repeal strict gun control laws.
Which of the following, if true, would most weaken the argument above?

  1. The annual rate of violent crime in states with strict gun-control laws has decreased since the passage of those laws.
  2. In states with strict gun-control laws, few individuals are prosecuted for violating such laws.
  3. In states without strict gun-control laws, many individuals have had no formal training in the use of firearms.
  4. The annual rate of nonviolent crime is lower in states with strict gun-control laws than in states without such laws.
  5. Less than half of the individuals who reside in states without strict gun-control laws own a gun.

Answer(s): A



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