1、工商(经企)管理硕士入学考试(GMAT)-4 及答案解析(总分：155.00，做题时间：90 分钟)一、单项选择题(总题数：31，分数：155.00)1.Last year, support for the social and behavioral sciences represented only about three percent of the government“s total budget for research funds in the United States. Thus, the particularly sharp reductions imposed on suc
2、h programs this year seem dictated not by financial constraints but by social philosophy. Which of the following is an assumption on which the conclusion of the passage above is based?（分数：5.00）A.The government funds allocated for research in the, social and behavioral sciences are not sufficient for
3、 the work that needs to be doneB.The social and behavioral sciences are as valuable as the physical and biological sciencesC.The current reductions will stop research in the social and behavioral sciencesD.Government funding is the primary source of research money in the United StatesE.Three percent
4、 is an insignificant portion of the government“s total budget for research funds2.Neither the Sami nor the Kephrian delegations attended the international conference. Beforehand, the delegations of Daqua and Kephria, allies whose governments had grievances against Tessia, officially announced that o
5、ne or both of the two would stay away if the Tesssian delegation attended the conference. In response, the Sami delegation officially announced that it would definitely attend if both the Daquan and Kephrian delegations stayed away. If the statements given are all true and all the delegations adhere
6、d to their official announcements, it must also be true that the（分数：5.00）A.Daquan delegation attended the conferenceB.Daquan delegation did not attend the conferenceC.Sami government had no grievance against TessiaD.Tessian delegation did not attend the conferenceE.Tessian delegation made no officia
7、l announcement regarding its attendance at the conference3.All actors are exuberant people and all exuberant people are extroverts, but nevertheless it is true that some shy people are actors. If the statements above are true, each of the following must also be true EXCEPT:（分数：5.00）A.Some shy people
8、 are extrovertsB.Some shy extroverts are not actorsC.Some exuberant people who are actors are shyD.All people who are not extroverts are not actorsE.Some extroverts are shy4.A certain ball was dropped from a window 8 meters above a sidewalk. On each bounce it rose straight up exactly one-half the di
9、stance of the previous fall. After the third bounce the ball was caught when it reached a height of exactly 1 meter above the sidewalk. How many meters did the ball travel in all?（分数：5.00）A.21B.19C.17D.15E.135.Residents of an apartment complex are considering two possible plans for collecting recycl
10、able trash. Plan 1Residents will deposit recyclable trash in municipal dumpsters located in the parking lot. The trash will be collected on the first and the fifteenth days of each month. Plan 2Residents will be given individual containers for recyclable trash. The containers will be placed at the c
11、urb twice a week for trash collection. Which of the following points raised at a meeting of the residents, if valid, would most favor one of the recycling plans over the other?（分数：5.00）A.Residents will be required to exercise care in separating recyclable trash from nonrecyclable trashB.For trash re
12、cycling to be successful, residents must separate recyclable bottles and cans from recyclable paper productsC.Penalties will be levied against residents who fail to sort their trash correctlyD.Individual recycling containers will need to be made of a strong and durable materialE.Recyclable trash tha
13、t is allowed to accumulate for two weeks will attract rodents6.A jewelry dealer initially offered a bracelet for sale at an asking price that would give a profit to the dealer of 40 percent of the original cost. What was the original cost of the bracelet? (1)After reducing this asking price by 10 pe
14、rcent, the jewelry dealer sold the bracelet at a profit of $403. (2)The Jewelry dealer sold the bracelet for $1,953.（分数：5.00）A.条件(1)充分，但条件(2)不充分B.条件(2)充分，但条件(1)不充分C.条件(1)和(2)单独都不充分，但条件(1)和条件(2)联合起来充分D.条件(1)充分，条件(2)也充分E.条件(1)和条件(2)单独都不充分，条件(1)和条件(2)联合起来也不充分7.If x and y are integers and xy=5, then (x+
15、y) 2 =（分数：5.00）A.13B.16C.25D.26E.368.In a certain game, a large container is filled with red, yellow, green and blue beads worth, respectively, 7, 5, 3, and 2 points each. A number of beads are then removed from the container. If the product of the point values of the removed beads is 147,000, how m
16、any red beads were removed?（分数：5.00）A.5B.4C.3D.2E.09.Reporting on a civil war, a journalist encountered evidence that refugees were starving because the government would not permit food shipments to a rebel-held area. Government censors deleted all mention of the government“s role in the starvation
17、from the journalist“s report, which had not implicated either nature or the rebels in the starvation. The journalist concluded that it was ethically permissible to file the censored report, because the journalist“s news agency would precede it with the notice “Cleared by government censors.“ Which o
18、ne of the following ethical criteria, if valid, would serve to support the journalist“s conclusion while placing the least constraint on the flow of reported information?（分数：5.00）A.It is ethical in general to report known facts, but unethical to do so while omitting other known facts if the omitted
19、facts would substantially alter an impression of a person or institution that would be congruent with the reported factsB.In a situation of conflict, it is ethical to report known facts and unethical to fail to report known facts that would tend to exonerate one party to the conflictC.In a situation
20、 of censorship, it is unethical to make any report if the government represented by the censor deletes from the report material unfavorable to that governmentD.It is ethical in general to report known facts but unethical to make a report in a situation of censorship if relevant facts have been delet
21、ed by the censor, unless the recipient of the report is warned that censorship existedE.Although it is ethical in general to report known facts, it is unethical to make a report from which a censor has deleted relevant facts, unless the recipient of the reports is warned that there was censorship an
22、d the reported facts do not by themselves give a misleading impression10.When an object is dropped, the number of feet N that it falls is given by the formula （分数：5.00）A.64B.96C.161D.257E.40211.In the United States in 1986, the average rate of violent crime in states with strict gun-control laws was
23、 645 crimes per 100,000 personsabout 50 percent higher than the average rate in the eleven states where strict gun-control laws have never been passed. Thus one way to reduce violent crime is to repeal strict gun control laws. Which of the following, if true, would most weaken the argument above?（分数
24、：5.00）A.The annual rate of violent crime in states with strict guncontrol laws has decreased since the passage of those lawsB.In states with strict gun-control laws, few individuals are prosecuted for violating such lawsC.In states without strict gun-control laws, many individuals have had no formal
25、 training in the use of firearmsD.The annual rate of nonviolent crime is lower in states with strict gun-control laws than in states without such lawsE.Less than half of the individuals who reside in states without strict gun-control laws own a gun12.Kim bought a total of $2.65 worth of postage stam
26、ps in four denominations. If she bought an equal number of 5-cent and 25-cent stamps and twice as many 10-cent stamps as 5-cent stamps, what is the least number of 1-cent stamps she could have bought?（分数：5.00）A.5B.10C.15D.20E.2513.Senator: Jones is highly qualified for appointment as a judge, as evi
27、denced by Jones“s receiving a unanimous vote of “qualified“ on the formal rating scale used by the Lawyers“ Committee. That committee advises the Senate on judicial appointments. Which of the following, if true, is the best reason for dismissing the senator“s claim that Jones is highly qualified?（分数
28、：5.00）A.Several members of the Lawyers“ Committee are not themselves qualified for judicial appointmentsB.The Lawyers“ Committee does not advise the Senate on all judicial appointmentsC.The Lawyers“ Committee gives a unanimous vote of “qualified“ only to those candidates for judicial appointments wh
29、o meet the committee“s stringent standards for appropriate prior experience and ethical conductD.The Lawyers“ Committee gives a unanimous vote of either “highly qualified“ or “very highly qualified“ to 95 percent of all candidates for judicial appointmentsE.Jones, like most lawyers, is a member of t
30、he professional organization that originally suggested the establishment of the Lawyers“ Committee14.An experiment was done in which human subjects recognize a pattern within a matrix of abstract designs and then select another design that completes that pattern. The results of the experiment were s
31、urprising. The lowest expenditure of energy in neurons in the brain was found in those subjects who performed most successfully in the experiments. Which of the following hypotheses best accounts for the findngs of the experiment?（分数：5.00）A.The neurons of the brain react less when a subject is tryin
32、g to recognize patterns than when the subject is doing other kinds of reasoningB.Those who performed best in the experiment experienced more satisfaction when working with abstract patterns than did those who performed less wellC.People who are better at abstract pattern recognition have more energy
33、-efficient neural connectionsD.The energy expenditure of the subjects brains increases when a design that completes the initially recognized pattern is determinedE.The task of completing a given design is more capable performed by athletes, whose energy expenditure is lower when they are at rest tha
34、n is that of the general population15.What is the probability that events A and B both occur? (1)The probability that event A occurs is 0.8. (2)The probability that event B occurs is 0.6.（分数：5.00）A.条件(1)充分，但条件(2)不充分B.条件(2)充分，但条件(1)不充分C.条件(1)和(2)单独都不充分，但条件(1)和条件(2)联合起来充分D.条件(1)充分，条件(2)也充分E.条件(1)和条件(2
35、)单独都不充分，条件(1)和条件(2)联合起来也不充分16.“This company will not be training any more pilots in the foreseeable future, since we have 400 trained pilots on our waiting list who are seeking employment. The other five major companies each have roughly the same number of trained pilots on their waiting lists, and
36、since the projected requirement of each company is for not many more than 100 additional pilots, there will be no shortage of personnel despite the current upswing in the aviation industry. “ Which one of the following, if true, casts the most doubt on the accuracy of the above conclusion?（分数：5.00）A
37、.Most of the trained pilots who are on a waiting list for a job are on the waiting lists of all the major companiesB.In the long run, pilot training will become necessary to compensate for ordinary attritionC.If no new pilots are trained, there will be an age imbalance in the pilot work forceD.The q
38、uoted personnel projections take account of the current upswing in the aviation industryE.Some of the other major companies are still training pilots but with no presumption of subsequent employment17. （分数：5.00）A.条件(1)充分，但条件(2)不充分B.条件(2)充分，但条件(1)不充分C.条件(1)和(2)单独都不充分，但条件(1)和条件(2)联合起来充分D.条件(1)充分，条件(2)
39、也充分E.条件(1)和条件(2)单独都不充分，条件(1)和条件(2)联合起来也不充分18.If n is an integer between 2 and 100 and if n is also the square of an integer, what is the value of n? (1)n is the cube of an integer. (2)n is even.（分数：5.00）A.条件(1)充分，但条件(2)不充分B.条件(2)充分，但条件(1)不充分C.条件(1)和(2)单独都不充分，但条件(1)和条件(2)联合起来充分D.条件(1)充分，条件(2)也充分E.条件(
40、1)和条件(2)单独都不充分，条件(1)和条件(2)联合起来也不充分19.Scientific research that involves international collaboration has produced papers of greater influence, as measured by the number of times a paper is cited in subsequent papers, than has research without any collaboration. Papers that result from international co
41、llaboration are cited an average of seven times, whereas papers with single authors are cited only three times on average. This difference shows that research projects conducted by international research teams are of greater importance than those conducted by single researchers. Which one of the fol
42、lowing is an assumption on which the argument depends?（分数：5.00）A.Prolific writers can inflate the number of citations they receive by citing themselves in subsequent papersB.It is possible to ascertain whether or not a paper is the product of international collaboration by determining the number of
43、citations it has receivedC.The number of citations a paper receives is a measure of the importance of the research it reportsD.The collaborative efforts of scientists who are citizens of the same country do not produce papers that are as important as papers that are produced by international collabo
44、rationE.International research teams tend to be more generously funded than are single researchers20.During the four years that Mrs. Lopez owned her car, she found that her total car expenses were $18,000. Fuel and maintenance costs accounted for of the total and depreciation accounted for of the re
45、mainder. The cost of insurance was 3 times the cost of financing, and together these two costs accounted for （分数：5.00）A.$1,500 moreB.$1,200 moreC.$100 lessD.$300 lessE.$1,500 less21.The nuclear polyhedrosis virus helps control gypsy moth populations by killing the moth“s larvae. The virus is always
46、present in the larvae, but only every sixth or seventh year does the virus seriously decimate the number of larvae, thereby drastically setting back the gypsy moth population. Scientists believe that the virus, ordinarily latent, is triggered only when the larvae experience biological stress. If the
47、 scientists mentioned above are correct, it can be inferred that the decimation of gypsy moth larvae populations by the nuclear polyhedrosis virus would be most likely to be triggered by which of the following conditions?（分数：5.00）A.A shift from drought conditions to normal precipitation in areas inf
48、ested by gypsy mothsB.The escalating stress of defoliation sustained by trees at tacked by gypsy moths for the second consecutive yearC.Predation on larvae of all kinds by parasitic wasps and fliesD.Starvation of the gypsy moth larvae as a result of overpopulationE.Spraying of areas infested by gyps
49、y moths with laboratory-raised nuclear polyhedrosis virus22.Advertisers are often criticized for their unscrupulous manipulation of people“s tastes and wants. There is evidence, however, that some advertisers are motivated by moral as well as financial considerations. A particular publication decided to change its image from being a family newspaper to concentrating on sex and violence, thus appealing to a different readership. Some advertisers withdrew their advertisements from the publication, and this must have been because they morally disapproved of publishing salac
