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Five jumbled up sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5), related to a topic, are given below. Four of them can be put together to form a coherent paragraph. Identify the odd sentence and key in the number of that sentence as your answer.

  1. Our smartphones can now track our diets, our biological cycles, even our digestive systems and sleep-patterns.
  2. Researchers have even coin ed a new term, "orthosomnia", to describe the insomnia brought on by paying too much attention to smartphones and sleep tracking apps.
  3. Sleep, nature's soft nurse, is a blissful, untroubled state all too easily disturbed by earthly worries or a guilty conscience.
  4. The existence of a market for such apps is unsurprising: shift work, a long-hours culture and blue light from screens have conspired to rob many of us of sufficient rest.
  5. A new threat to a good night's rest has emerged smart-phones, with sleep-tracking apps.

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Solution

āœ… Correct Answer: 3

From passage: "Our smartphones can now track our diets, our biological cycles, even our digestive systems and sleep-patterns" and "A new threat to a good night's rest has emerged smart-phones, with sleep-tracking apps"

Thought process:

Sentences 1, 2, 4, 5 -> all mention smartphones and their impact on sleep -> they form a connected story about technology problems

Sentence 3 -> talks about sleep being disturbed by "earthly worries or guilty conscience" -> no mention of smartphones at all -> different topic


Since there are no multiple choice options given,we need to identify that sentence 3 is the odd one out because:

šŸ”“ Sentence 3 -> topic-shift -> talks about general life worries affecting sleep, completely ignores the smartphone theme that connects all other sentences

The other four sentences create a clear flow: smartphones track sleep -> this creates problems -> market exists for such apps -> researchers even named this problem "orthosomnia"

Answer: 3

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