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Dear nahid78,

I'm happy to respond.

I don't have a particularly high opinion of this question. In a number of ways, it falls short of the high standards of official questions. I don't see any problem with (A)--both (A) & (B) work as answers. This is the sign of a poorly constructed question. I don't know about this company's other material, but this particularly question certainly is not "ready for the GMAT"!

My friend, don't be naive as a consumer of GMAT Verbal practice questions. Don't simply assume because some company out there says, "We have high quality GMAT practice questions," that they are telling the truth. Don't automatically assume that the question is sound and that your reasoning is flawed. Some verbal questions simply are not that good. In many situations, marketing concerns completely trump pedagogical concerns: it takes tremendous discipline as a company to avoid that pitfall. Most GMAT math practice questions I have seen from various companies are pretty good: it's comparatively easy to write math questions if one knows math. By contrast, most of the GMAT verbal practice questions I have seen range from mediocre to lousy--it's exceptionally hard to write a high quality GMAT verbal practice question. The official questions (OG + GMAT Club) are uniformly superb. The questions of MGMAT and Magoosh are very good, and I have been quite impressed with almost all the Veritas questions I have seen. Those are companies of whose verbal questions I have a high opinion.

Be a discerning customer of GMAT verbal questions. Read testimonials--be highly suspicious of a company that doesn't have any. If a company has some kind of a score guarantee, that's an impressive claim. Also, look for patterns here on GMAT Club: if the threads of all the question of a particular company have skeptical comments from experts, that should make you suspicious; conversely, if experts of other companies tend to praise the questions of this company, that's a good sign.

My friend, do you know what happens to naive and gullible people in business world? The sharks rob them blind. Critical thinking and a health sense of suspicion are absolutely essential for survival in the modern business world.

Here's a high quality question:
Charles Sumner

Does all this make sense?
Mike