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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. Over the past fortnight, one of its finest champions managed to pull off a similar impression.
  2. Wimbledon's greatest illusion is the sense of timelessness it evokes.
  3. At 3535 years and 342342 days, Roger Federer became the oldest man to win the singles title in the Open Era — a full 1414 years after he first claimed the title as a scruffy, pony-tailed upstart.
  4. Once he had survived the opening week, the second week witnessed the range of a rested Federer's genius.
  5. Given that his method isn't reliant on explosive athleticism or muscular ball-striking, both vulnerable to decay, there is cause to believe that Federer will continue to enchant for a while longer.

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Solution

✅ Correct Answer: 4

From passage: "Wimbledon's greatest illusion is the sense of timelessness it evokes" and "Over the past fortnight, one of its finest champions managed to pull off a similar impression"

My thought process -> First, we look for connecting words and related ideas. Sentence 2 talks about Wimbledon's "sense of timelessness." Sentence 1 mentions "similar impression" -> this connects! The champion created the same timeless feeling.

Then sentence 3 tells us who this champion is -> Roger Federer (the "scruffy, pony-tailed upstart").

Sentence 5 explains why Federer can keep doing this -> his style doesn't depend on strength that gets weaker with age.

So the flow is: Wimbledon feels timeless -> Federer created this same feeling -> He's the former young champion -> He can keep doing this because his style ages well.


But sentence 4 talks about specific match details -> "opening week" and "second week" and "rested Federer's genius." This is about one particular tournament, not the general timeless quality the other sentences discuss.


🟢 Sentence 4 is the odd one out -> scope-error -> focuses on specific match timing instead of the broader theme about Federer's timeless appeal. The other sentences talk about his overall ability to create timelessness, but sentence 4 gets into tournament specifics that don't match this bigger picture.

Answer: 4

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