GMAT Section 3 Verbal Ability

GMAT Section 3 Verbal Ability practice questions, page 26 of 30, with answer review and explanations.

Question 126

American customers expect high quality. When the quality of a manufactured product is raised, it in turn raises customer expectations. A company that believes that the quality of its products is satisfactory will soon discover that its customers are not similarly satisfied. The goal of Sunnybrook Corporation is to meet or exceed customer expectations. Which of the following must be true on the basis of the statements above?

  1. Sunny brook’scompetitors will succeed in attracting customers only if those competitors adoptSunny brook’sgoal as their own.
  2. A company that does not correctly forecast the expectations of its customers is certain to fail in advancing the quality of its products.
  3. It is possible to meet the goal of Sunnybrook Corporation only if the quality of their products can be continually improved upon.
  4. If a company becomes satisfied with the quality of the products it manufactures, then the quality is likely to decline.
  5. Sunnybrook’s customers are currently satisfied with the quality of its products.

Question 127

According to a review of 38 studies of patients suffering from water retention, a large majority of the patients reported that fasting eased their suffering considerably. Yet fasting is not used to treat water retention even though the conventional medications often have serious side effects. Which of the following, if true, best explains the fact that fasting is not used as a treatment for water retention?

  1. For a small percentage of patients with water retention, fasting induces a temporary sense of nausea
  2. Getting patients with water retention to fast regularly is more difficult than getting healthy patients to do so.
  3. Fasting regularly over a long period of time can lead to temporary impairment of balance comparable to that induced by consuming several ounces of alcohol.
  4. The dramatic shifts in water retention connected with fasting have not been traced to particular changes in brain chemistry.
  5. The water retention returns in full force as soon as the fast is broken by even a small meal.

Question 128

The more frequently employees that take a break for guided relaxation exercises during working hours each week, the fewer sick days they take. Even workers who take a guided relaxation break once a week during working hours take less sick leave than those who do not perform relaxation. Therefore, if companies started guided relaxation programs, the absentee rate in those companies would decrease significantly. Which of the following, if true, most seriously weakens the argument above?

  1. Employees who do guided relaxation exercises during working hours occasionally fall asleep for short periods of time after the exercises.
  2. Employees who are frequently absent are the least likely to cooperate with or to join a corporate relaxation program.
  3. Employees who do guide relaxation exercises only once a week in their company’s fitness program usually also do relaxation exercises at home.
  4. Employees who do guided relaxation exercises in their companys relaxation program use their working time no more productively than those who do not do relaxation exercises.
  5. Employees do guided relaxation exercises during working hours take slightly longer lunch breaks than employees who do not do relaxation exercise

Question 129

Home insurance premiums are typically set after an appraiser assigns an official assessed value. Reassessments should be frequent in order to remove distortions that arise when property value changes at differential rates. In actual fact, however, properties are reassessed only when they stand to benefit the insurance company. In other words, a reassessment takes place when the most likely outcome is in increase in insurance premiums to the homeowner. Which of the following, if true, describes a situation in which a reassessment should occur but in unlikely to do so?

  1. Property values have risen sharply and uniformly.
  2. Property values have raised everywhere – some very sharply, some moderately.
  3. Property values have on the whole risen sharply; yet some have dropped slightly.
  4. Property values have on the whole dropped significantly; yet some have risen slightly.
  5. Property values have dropped significantly and uniformly.

Question 130

Although perioral dermatitis rashes are believed to be caused by reactions to Sodium Laurel Sulfate (SLS) found in shampoos and other personal care products, instructing patients to eliminate all products with SLS frequently does not stop the perioral dermatitis. Obviously, some other cause of perioral dermatitis besides reactions to SLS must exist. Which of the following, if true, would most seriously weaken the conclusion above?

  1. Many personal care products elicit an allergic skin response only after several days, making it very difficult to observe links between specific products patients use and the perioral dermatitis they develop.
  2. Skin allergies affect many people who never develop the symptom of perioral dermatitis.
  3. Many patients report that the personal care products that cause them perioral dermatitis are among the products they most enjoy using.
  4. Very few patients have allergic skin reactions as children and then live rash-free adult lives once they have eliminated products to which they have been demonstrated to be allergic.
  5. Very rarely do personal care products cause patients to suffer a symptom more severe than that of perioral dermatitis rashes.