GMAT Verbal Reasoning Practice Test 5

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George Bernard Shaw wrote: “That any sane nation, having observed that you could provide for the supply of bread by giving bakers a pecuniary interest in baking for you, should go on to give a surgeon a pecuniary interest in cutting off your leg is enough to make one despair of political humanity.”

Shaw’s statement would best serve as an illustration in an argument criticizing which of the following?

Dentists who perform unnecessary dental work in order to earn a profit
Doctors who increase their profits by specializing only in diseases that affect a large percentage of the population
Grocers who raise the price of food in order to increase their profit margins
Oil companies that decrease the price of their oil in order to increase their market share
Bakers and surgeons who earn a profit by supplying other peoples’ basic needs

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