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GMAT-Section-3-Verbal-Ability – Section Three : Verbal Ability

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Question 16 (Critical Reasoning Questions)

Which of the following best completes the passage below?

At large amusement parks, live shows are used very deliberately to influence crowd movements. Lunchtime performances relieve the pressure on a park’s restaurants. Evening performances have a rather different purpose: to encourage visitors to stay for supper. Behind this surface divergence in immediate purpose there is the unified underlying goal of______

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    keeping the lines at the various rides short by drawing off part of the crowd
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    enhancing revenue by attracting people who come only for the live shows and then leave the park
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    avoiding as far as possible traffic jams caused by visitors entering or leaving the park
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    encouraging as many people as possible to come to the park in order to eat at the restaurants
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    utilizing the restaurants at optimal levels for as much of the day as possible
Question 17 (Critical Reasoning Questions)

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?

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    The facts she presents do not support her conclusion that Senator Frank is soft on crime.
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    She assumes without proof that crime is the most important issue in the upcoming election.
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    She argues in a circle, using an unsupported assertion to dismiss conflicting evidence.
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    She attacks Senator Frank on personal grounds rather than on he merit as a political leader.
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    In deciding not to vote for Senator Frank, she fails to consider issues other than crime.
Question 18 (Sentence Correction Questions)

Suggested by new research is the fact that people who achieve phenomenal success do so, not only by visualizing their success in future endeavors, but also, by recalling their past successes, creating a tremendous surge in confidence.

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    Suggested by new research is the fact that people who achieve phenomenal success do so, not only by visualizing their success in future endeavors, but also, by recalling their past successes, creating a tremendous surge in confidence.
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    New research suggests that people that achieve phenomenal success visualize their success in future endeavors and also recall their past successes to create a tremendous surge in confidence.
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    New research suggests that the achievement of phenomenal success by persons is accomplished not only by the visualization of success in future endeavors but also by the recollection of past successes, which creates a tremendous surge in confidence.
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    New research suggests that people who achieve phenomenal success do so not only by visualizing their success in future endeavors but also by recalling their past successes, creating a tremendous surge in confidence.
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    New research suggests that people who achieve phenomenal success do so not only by visualizing their success in future endeavors, but also they recall their past successes, creating a tremendous surge in confidence.