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.
- Our smartphones can now track our diets, our biological cycles, even our digestive systems and sleep-patterns.
- 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.
- Sleep, nature's soft nurse, is a blissful, untroubled state all too easily disturbed by earthly worries or a guilty conscience.
- 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.
- A new threat to a good night's rest has emerged smart-phones, with sleep-tracking apps.
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.
- Our smartphones can now track our diets, our biological cycles, even our digestive systems and sleep-patterns.
- 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.
- Sleep, nature's soft nurse, is a blissful, untroubled state all too easily disturbed by earthly worries or a guilty conscience.
- 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.
- A new threat to a good night's rest has emerged smart-phones, with sleep-tracking apps.
Entered answer:
Solution
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:
š“ 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