GMAT - 语文部分（Verbal）

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A cost-effective solution to the problem of airport congestion is to provide high-speed ground transportation between major cities lying 200 to 500 miles apart. The successful implementation of this plan would cost far less than expanding existing airports and would also reduce the number of airplanes clogging both airports and airways. Which of the following, if true, could proponents of the plan above most appropriately cite as a piece of evidence for the soundness of their plan？

An effective high-speed ground-transportation system would require major repairs to many highways and mass-transit improvements.
B. One-half of all departing flights in the nation"s busiest airport head for a destination in a major city 225 miles away.
C. The majority of travelers departing from rural airports are flying to destinations in cities over 600 miles away.
D. Many new airports are being built in areas that are presently served by high-speed ground-transportation systems.
E. A large proportion of air travelers are vacationers who are taking long-distance flights.

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Counselor: Every year a popular newsmagazine publishes a list of United States colleges, ranking them according to an overall numerical score that is a composite of ratings according to several criteria. However, the overall scores generally should not be used by students as the basis for deciding to which colleges to apply. Which of the following, if true, most helps to justify the counselor s recommendation？

A. The vast majority of people who purchase the magazine in which the list appears are not college-bound students.
B. Colleges that are ranked highest in the magazine"s list use this fact in advertisements aimed at attracting students.
C. The rankings seldom change from one year to the next.
D. The significance that particular criteria have for any two students is likely to differ according to the students" differing needs.
E. Some college students who are pleased with their schools considered the magazine"s rankings before deciding which college to attend.

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Although the ratio of physicians to total population is about the same in the United States and Canada, the United States has 33 percent more surgeons per capita. Clearly, this is the reason people in the United States undergo 40 percent more operations per capita than do Canadians. The explanation given above rests on an assumption that

A. patients in the United States do not have a greater need for surgery than do patients in Canada.
B. the population of the United States is not larger than that of Canada.
C. United States patients sometimes travel to Canada for certain kinds of surgery.
D. general practitioners in the United States do not as a rule examine a patient who is a candidate for surgery before sending the patient to a surgeon.
E. there are no unnecessary surgical operations performed in Canada.

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As a promotional experiment, Omega Company distributed four million catalogs. In one of the two versions of the catalog, the description of each item for sale mentioned a "Made by Hand" label. The number of purchases from consumers receiving that catalog was twenty percent greater than the number of purchases from consumers receiving a catalog that did not mention the label. Thus, the mention of the label stimulated sales. Which of the following, if true, could best be used to challenge the conclusion drawn above？

A. Consumers receiving the catalog mentioning the label had previously purchased items from Omega Company by mail but consumers receiving the other catalog had not.
B. Surveys showed that consumers returned purchased items to Omega Company during the promotional campaign at the same rate regardless of which catalog they received.
C. The number of purchases from Omega Company declined substantially after the promotional campaign was completed .
D. Omega Company mailed three times as many catalogs that did not mention the "Made by Hand" label as catalogs that did mention the label.
E. Omega Company sold twenty percent fewer items during the year of the promotional campaign than it had during the previous year.

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The passage implies that which of the following was true of introductory courses in Asian

A. The range of different textbooks that could be assigned for such courses was extremely limited.
B. The texts assigned as readings in such courses were often not very challenging for students.
C. Students often complained about the texts assigned to them in such courses.
D. Such courses were the only means then available by which people in the United States could acquire knowledge of the field.
E. Few students wanted to take such courses.

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In recent years, teachers of introductory courses in Asian American studies have been facing a dilemma nonexistent a few decades ago, when hardly any texts in that field were available. Today, excellent anthologies and other introductory texts exist, and books on individual Asian American nationality groups and on general issues important for Asian Americans are published almost weekly. Even professors who are experts in the field find it difficult to decide which of these to assign to students; non-experts who teach in related areas and are looking for writings for and by Asian American to include in survey courses are in an even worse position. A complicating factor has been the continuing lack of specialized one-volume reference works on Asian Americans , such as biographical dictionaries or desktop encyclopedias. Such works would enable students taking Asian American studies courses(and professors in related fields)to look up basic information on Asian American individuals, institutions, history, and culture without having to wade through moun- tains of primary source material. In addition, give such works, Asian American studies professors might feel more free to include more challenging Asian American material in their introductory reading lists, since good reference works allow students to acquire on their own the background information necessary to interpret difficult or unfamiliar material.<br>The author of the passage is primarily concerned with doing which of the following？

A. Recommending a methodology.
B. Describing a course of study.
C. Discussing a problem.
D. Evaluating a past course of action.
E. Responding to a criticism.

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It can be inferred from the passage that the "prevailing dogma"(line 14)held that

A. Jim Crow laws were passed to give legal status to well-established discriminatory practices in the South.
B. Jim Crow laws were passed to establish order and uniformity in the discriminatory practices of different southern states.
C. Jim Crow laws were passed to erase the social gains that Black people had achieved since Reconstruction.
D. the continuity of racial segregation in the South was disrupted by passage of Jim Crow laws.
E. the Jim Crow laws of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries were passed to reverse the effect of earlier Jim Crow laws.

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Which of the following best describes the organization of the first paragraph？

A thesis is presented and supporting examples are provided.
B. Opposing views are presented, classified, and then reconciled.
C. A fact is stated, and an explanation is advanced and then refuted.
D. A theory is proposed, considered, and then amended.
E. An opinion is presented, qualified, and then reaffirmed.

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Which of the following can be inferred from the passage about the Native American inhabitants of Ungava Bay？

A. They were almost all killed by the 1952 epidemic.
B. They were immunologically defenseless against measles.
C. They were the last native people to be struck by a virgin-soil epidemic.
D. They did not come into frequent contact with white Americans until the twentieth century.
E. They had been inoculated against measles.

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Ounce for ounce, blends of different artificial sweeteners match any individual artificial

A. When ingested together, different artificial sweeteners in the blends do not interact in a way that makes them harmful to human health.
B. Different artificial sweeteners, when used together in food, do not contribute a more desirable flavor to the food than would any one of them by itself.
C. The acceptable daily intake for any given artificial sweetener is a conservative figure that could probably be greatly exceeded at little or no risk.
D. Consumers who substitute artificial sweeteners for sugar in their diets generally keep track of their daily intake of different sweeteners.
E. The ill effects on health produced by the intake of excessive quantities of any single artificial sweetener cannot be reversed by reducing intake later.

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