2007年GMAT考试最新逻辑推理试题训练二十六

　　TEST 19

　　25 Minutes 16 Questions

　　1. A publisher is now providing university professors with the option of ordering custom textbooks for their courses. The professors can edit out those chapters of a book they are not interested in and add material of their own choosing.

　　The widespread use of the option mentioned above is LEAST likely to contribute to fulfilling which of the following educational objectives?

　　(A) Coverage of material relevant to a particular student body’s specific needs

　　(B) Offering advanced elective courses that pursue in-depth investigation of selected topics in a field

　　(C) Ensuring that students nationwide engaged in a specific course of study are uniformly exposed to a basic set of readings

　　(D) Making the textbooks used in university courses more satisfactory from the individual teacher’s point of view(C)

　　(E) Keeping students’ interest in a course by offering lively, well-written reading assignments

　　2. Mechanicorp’s newest product costs so little to make that it appears doubtful the company will be able to sell it without increasing the markup the company usually allows for profit: potential clients would simply not believe that something so inexpensive would really work. Yet Mechanicorp’s reputation is built on fair prices incorporating only modest profit margins.

　　The statements above, if true, most strongly support which of the following?

　　(A) Mechanicorp will encounter difficulties in trying to set a price for its newest product that will promote sales without threatening to compromise the company’s reputation.

　　(B) Mechanicorp achieves large annual profits, despite small profits per unit sold, by means of a high volume of sales.

　　(C) Mechanicorp made a significant computational error in calculating the production costs for its newest product.

　　(D) Mechanicorp’s newest product is intended to perform tasks that can be performed by other devices costing less to manufacture.(A)

　　(E) Mechanicorp’s production processes are designed with the same ingenuity as are the products that the company makes.

　　3. Companies in the country of Kollontay can sell semiconductors in the country of Valdivia at a price that is below the cost to Valdivian companies of producing them. To help those Valdivian companies, the Valdivian legislature plans to set a minimum selling price in Valdivia for semiconductors manufactured in Kollontay that is ten percent 美国GREater than the average production costs for companies in Valdivia.

　　Which of the following, if true, most seriously threatens the success of the plan?

　　(A) The annual rate of inflation in Kollontay is expected to exceed ten percent within the next year.

　　(B) Valdivia is not the only country where companies in Kollontay currently sell semiconductors.