Download Free Sample GMAT Questions. There are five main types of GMAT questions: Quantitative Comparison; Problem Solving; Sentence Correction; Critical Reasoning; Reading Comprehension.
Each GMAT sample reading comprehension passage in this section is followed by questions based on the content of the reading passage. Read the passage carefully and chose the best answer to each question. The questions are to be answered on the basis of what is stated or implied in the passage.
First GMAT Sample Comprehension Passage
But man is not destined to vanish. He can be killed, but he cannot be destroyed, because his soul is deathless and his spirit is irrepressible. Therefore, though the situation seems dark in the context of the confrontation between the superpowers, the silver lining is provided by amazing phenomenon that the very nations which have spent incalculable resources and energy for the production of deadly weapons are desperately trying to find out how they might never be used. They threaten each other, intimidate each other and go to the brink, but before the total hour arrives they withdraw from the brink.
1. The main point from the author’s view is that
Answer: E
2. The phrase ‘Go to the brink’ in the passage means
Answer: C
3. In the author’s opinion
Answer: D
4. ‘Irrepressible’ in the second line means
Answer: D
5. A suitable title for the above passage is
Answer: B
Second GMAT Sample Comprehension Passage
Disequilibrium at the interface of water and air is a factor on which the transfer of heat and water vapor from the ocean to the air depends. The air within about a millimeter of the water is almost saturated with water vapor and the temperature of the air is close to that of the surface water. Irrespective of how small these differences might be, they are crucial, and the disequilibrium is maintained by air near the surface mixing with air higher up, which is typically appreciably cooler and lower in water vapor content. The turbulence, which takes its energy from the wind mixes the air. As the speed of wind increases, so does the turbulence, and consequently the rate of heat and moisture transfer. We can arrive at a detailed understanding of this phenomenon after further study. The transfer of momentum from wind to water, which occurs when waves are formed is an interacting-and complicated phenomenon. When waves are made by the wind, it transfers important amounts of energy-energy, which is consequently not available for the production of turbulence.
1. This passage principally intends to:
Answer: B
2. The wind over the ocean usually does which of the following according to the given passage?
I. Leads to cool, dry air coming in proximity with the ocean surface.
II. Maintains a steady rate of heat and moisture transfer between the ocean and the air.
III. Results in frequent changes in the ocean surface temperature.
Answer: A
3. According to the author the present knowledge regarding heat and moisture transfer from the ocean to air as
Answer: E
4. According to the given passage, in case the wind was to decrease until there was no wind at all, which of the following would occur?
Answer: A
Third GMAT Sample Comprehension Passage
The Food and Drug Administration has formulated certain severe restrictions regarding the use of antibiotics, which are used to promote the health and growth of meat animals. Though the different types of medicines mixed with the fodder of the animals kills many microorganisms, it also encourages the appearance of bacterial strains, which are resistant to anti-infective drugs.
It has already been observed that penicillin and the tetracyclines are not as effective therapeutically as they once used to be. This resistance to drugs is chiefly caused due to tiny circlets of genes, called plasmids, which are transferable between different species of bacteria. These plasmids are also one of the two kinds of vehicles on which molecular biologists depend on while performing gene transplant experiments. Existing guidelines also forbid the use of plasmids, which bear genes for resistance to antibiotics, in the laboratories. Though congressional debate goes on as to whether these restrictions need to be toughened with reference to scientists in their laboratories, almost no congressional attention is being paid to an ill advised agricultural practice, which produces deleterious effects.
1. In the present passage, the author’s primary concern is with:
Answer: C
2. As inferred from the above passage, the mutual transfer of plasmids between different bacteria can result in which of the following?
Answer: A
3. According to the above passage the author believes that those who favor the stiffening of restrictions on gene transplant research should logically also.
Answer: B
4. The attitude the author has with reference to the development of bacterial strains that render antibiotic drugs in effective can best be described as
Answer: E
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Created: Mon, Dec 14, 2009
Last Updated: Mon, Dec 14, 2009
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