Reading Comprehension Questions

Below are a sample set of reading comprehension questions similar to those found in the verbal section of the GMAT. Due to the relatively small number of questions that we have published here, we strongly recommend that you only use these to augment your GMAT preparations.

     The need to reroute seriously ill patients because the community's critical-care beds are full is not good news. But earlier this week, four of the six local hospitals ran out of space for the critically ill and had to turn people away.
     The federal laws require hospitals to treat anyone who walks in. As a result of having to treat large numbers of uninsured patients, the emergency rooms often become an economic drain on their hospitals. Doctors now want to set up their own free-standing ambulatory surgical facilities and diagnostic centers. Critics contend this would leave hospitals with less revenue and the same number of indigents to treat.  
     A bill was recently introduced to phase out the need for a "certificate of public need" for non-hospital-based facilities, provided those facilities met stringent regulations and requirements. The finance committee balked at the hefty price and killed the bill, another casualty of a failed legislative session. 
     Unfortunately, the problem of access to medical care is not going to go away anytime soon and, despite the well-intended regulations, too-full hospitals compromise everyone's welfare. Healthy competition with small neighborhood surgical and diagnostic centers may be what is necessary to help dampen rising medical costs. But under no circumstances should the hospitals be forced to care for everybody without health insurance without additional help.

1) The best conclusion to this passage is:

1. If doctors want to run their own facilities, they should be required to take in at least some of the indigents.
2. Something must be done to ensure adequate health care for the uninsured.
3. Voters should tell the finance committee members that they will not be reelected if they do not pass some new legislation.
4. Everyone should be very concerned when the area's emergency rooms turn away patients due to overcrowding.
5. Health care costs have gotten way too high.

2) Which of the following best describes the author's mood?

1. neutral
2. positive
3. persuasive
4. angry
5. reverential

3) Which of the following is cited as a reason why hospitals are being unfairly burdened?

1. Failed legislative session
2. Problem of access
3. Federal law

1. I only
2. II only
3. III only
4. I and II
5. I, II, and III

4) The author cites the failed legislation to show that

1. the legislature will never resolve this issue.
2. the finance committee does not care about the uninsured citizens.
3. there will always be uninsured hospital patients.
4. inform the reader of the latest legislative attempt to resolve this issue.
5. the doctors successfully lobbied the finance committee.

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