Five sentences related to a topic are given below. Four of them can Pe put together to form a meaningful and coherent short paragraph. Identify the odd one out.
1. People who study children's language spend a lot of time watching how babies react to the speech they hear around them.
2. They make films of adults and babies interacting, and examine them very carefully to see whether the babies show any signs of understanding what the adults say.
3. They believe that babies begin to react to language from the very moment they are born.
4. Sometimes the signs are very subtle - slight movements of the baby's eyes or the head or the hands.
5. You'd never notice them if you were just sitting with the child, but by watching a recording over and over, you can spot them.
Five sentences related to a topic are given below. Four of them can be put together to form a meaningful and coherent short paragraph. Identify the odd one out.
1. Neuroscientists have just begun studying exercise's impact within brain cells - on the genes themselves.
2. Even there, in the roots of our biology, they've found signs of the body's influence on the mind.
3. It turns out that moving our muscles produces proteins that travel through the bloodstream and into the brain, where they play pivotal roles in the mechanisms of our highest thought processes.
4. In today's technology-driven, plasma-screened-in world, it's easy to forget that we are born movers - animals, in fact - because we've engineered movement right out of our lives.
5. It's only in the past few years that neuroscientists have begun to describe these factors and how they work, and each new discovery adds awe-inspiring depth to the picture.
Five sentences related to a topic are given below. Four of them can be put together to form a meaningful and coherent short paragraph. Identify the odd one out.
1. The water that made up ancient lakes and perhaps an ocean was lost.
2. Particles from the Sun collided with molecules in the atmosphere, knocking them into space or giving them an electric charge that caused them to be swept away by the solar wind.
3. Most of the planet's remaining water is now frozen or buried, but clues over the past decade suggested that some liquid water, a presumed necessity for life, might survive in underground aquifers.
4. Data from NASA's MAVEN orbiter show that solar storms stripped away most of Mars's oncethick atmosphere.
5. A recent study reveals how Mars lost much of its early water, while another indicates that some liquid water remains.
Five sentences related to a topic are given below. Four of them can be put together to form a meaningful and coherent short paragraph. Identify the odd one out.
1. Displacement in Bengal is thus not very significant in view of its magnitude.
2. A factor of displacement in Bengal is the shifting course of the Ganges leading to erosion of river banks.
3. The nature of displacement in Bengal makes it an interesting case study.
4. Since displacement due to erosion is well spread over a long period of time, it remains invisible.
5. Rapid displacement would have helped sensitize the public to its human costs.
Five sentences related to a topic are given below. Four of them can be put together to form a meaningful and coherent short paragraph. Identify the odd one out. Choose its number as your answer and key it in.
1. Translators are like bumblebees.
2. Though long since scientifically disproved, this factoid is still routinely trotted out.
3. Similar pronouncements about the impossibility of translation have dogged practitioners since Leonardo Bruni’s De interpretatione recta, published in 1424.
4. Bees, unaware of these deliberations, have continued to flit from flower to flower, and translators continue to translate.
5. In 1934, the French entomologist August Magnan pronounced the flight of the bumblebee to be aerodynamically impossible
Five sentences related to a topic are given below. Four of them can be put together to form a meaningful and coherent short paragraph. Identify the odd one out.
1. In many cases time inconsistency is what prevents our going from intention to action.
2. For people to continuously postpone getting their children immunized, they would need to be constantly fooled by themselves.
3. In the specific case of immunization, however, it is hard to believe that time inconsistency by itself would be sufficient to make people permanently postpone the decision if they were fully cognizant of its benefits.
4. In most cases, even a small cost of immunization was large enough to discourage most people.
5. Not only do they have to think that they prefer to spend time going to the camp next month rather than today, they also have to believe that they will indeed go next month.
Five sentences related to a topic are given below. Four of them can be put together to form a meaningful and coherent short paragraph. Identify the odd one out.
1. Much has been recently discovered about the development of songs in birds.
2. Some species are restricted to a single song learned by all individuals, others have a range of songs.
3. The most important auditory stimuli for the birds are the sounds of other birds.
4. For all bird species there is a prescribed path to development of the final song,
5. A bird begins with the subsong, passes through plastic song, until it achieves the species song.
Five sentences related to a topic are given below. Four of them can be put together to form a meaningful and coherent short paragraph. Identify the odd one out.
1. As India looks to increase the number of cities, our urban planning must factor in potential natural disasters and work out contingencies in advance.
2. Authorities must revise data and upgrade infrastructure and mitigation plans even if their local area hasn’t been visited by a natural calamity yet.
3. Extreme temperatures, droughts, and forest fires have more than doubled since 1980.
4. There is no denying the fact that our baseline normal weather is changing.
5. It is no longer a question of whether we will be hit by nature’s fury but rather when.
Five sentences related to a topic are given below. Four of them can be put together to form a meaningful and coherent short paragraph. Identify the odd one out. Choose its number as your answer and key the number in:
1.Our smartphones can now track our diets, our biological cycles, even our digestive systems and sleep-patterns.
2.Researchers have even coined 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.
Five sentences related to a topic are given below.
Four of them can be put together to form a meaningful
and coherent short paragraph. Identify the odd one
out. Choose its number as your answer and key it
in.
1. One argument is that actors that do not fit within
a single, well-defined category may suffer an
“illegitimacy discount”.
2. Others believe that complex identities confuse
audiences about an organization’s role or purpose.
3. Some organizations have complex and
multidimensional identities that span or combine
categories, while other organizations possess
narrow identities.
4. Identity is one of the most important features of
organizations, but there exist opposing views
among sociologists about how identity affects
organizational performance.
5. Those who think that complex identities are
beneficial point to the strategic advantages of
ambiguity, and organizations’ potential to
differentiate themselves from competitors.
Five sentences related to a topic are given below in
a jumbled order. Four of them form a coherent and
unified paragraph. Identify the odd sentence that does
not go with the four. Key in the number of the option
that you choose.
1. ‘Stat’ signaled something measurable, while
‘matic’ advertised free labour; but ‘tron’, above
all, indicated control.
2. It was a totem of high modernism, the intellectual
and cultural mode that decreed no process or
phenomenon was too complex to be grasped,
managed and optimized.
3. Like the heraldic shields of ancient knights, these
morphemes were painted onto the names of
scientific technologies to proclaim one’s history
and achievements to friends and enemies alike.
4. The historian Robert Proctor at Stanford University
calls the suffix ‘-tron’, along with ‘-matic’ and ‘-
stat’, embodied symbols.
5. To gain the suffix was to acquire a proud and
optimistic emblem of the electronic and atomic
age.
Five sentences related to a topic are given below.
Four of them can be put together to form a meaningful
and coherent short paragraph. Identify the odd one
out. Choose its number as your answer and key it
in.
1. His idea to use sign language was not a
completely new idea as Native Americans used
hand gestures to communicate with other tribes.
2. Ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle, for example,
observed that men who are deaf are incapable of
speech.
3. People who were born deaf were denied the right
to sign a will as they were “presumed to
understand nothing; because it is not possible
that they have been able to learn to read or write.”
4. Pushback against this prejudice began in the 16th
century when Pedro Ponce de León created a
formal sign language for the hearing impaired.
5. For millennia, people with hearing impairments
encountered marginalization because it was
believed that language could only be learned by
hearing the spoken word.
Five jumbled up sentences, related to a topic, are
given below. Four of them can be put together to
form a coherent paragraph. Identify the odd one out
and key in the number of the sentence as your
answer:
(1) Talk was the most common way for enslaved men
and women to subvert the rules of their bondage,
to gain more agency than they were supposed
to have.
(2) Even in conditions of extreme violence and
unfreedom, their words remained ubiquitous,
ephemeral, irrepressible, and potentially
transgressive.
(3) Slaves came from societies in which oaths,
orations, and invocations carried great potency,
both between people and as a connection to the
all-powerful spirit world.
(4) Freedom of speech and the power to silence may
have been preeminent markers of white liberty in
Colonies, but at the same time, slavery depended
on dialogue: slaves could never be completely
muted.
(5) Slave-owners obsessed over slave talk, though
they could never control it, yet feared its power
to bind and inspire—for, as everyone knew, oaths,
whispers, and secret conversations bred
conspiracy and revolt.
Five jumbled up sentences, related to a topic, are
given below. Four of them can be put together to
form a coherent paragraph. Identify the odd one out
and key in the number of the sentence as your
answer:
(1) For feminists, the question of how we read is
inextricably linked with the question of what we
read.
(2) Elaine Showalter’s critique of the literary
curriculum is exemplary of this work.
(3) Androcentric literature structures the reading
experience differently depending on the gender
of the reader.
(4) The documentation of this realization was one of
the earliest tasks undertaken by feminist critics.
(5) More specifically, the feminist inquiry into the
activity of reading begins with the realization that
the literary canon is androcentric, and that this
has a profoundly damaging effect on women
readers.
Five jumbled up sentences, related to a topic, are
given below. Four of them can be put together to
form a coherent paragraph. Identify the odd one out
and key in the number of the sentence as your
answer:
(1) You can observe the truth of this in every
e-business model ever constructed: monopolise
and protect data.
(2) Economists and technologists believe that a new
kind of capitalism is being created - different from
industrial capitalism as was merchant capitalism.
(3) In 1962, Kenneth Arrow, the guru of mainstream
economics, said that in a free market economy
the purpose of inventing things is to create
intellectual property rights.
(4) There is, alongside the world of monopolised
information and surveillance, a different dynamic
growing up: information as a social good,
incapable of being owned or exploited or priced.
(5) Yet information is abundant. Information goods
are freely replicable. Once a thing is made, it
can be copied and pasted infinitely.
Five jumbled up sentences, related to a topic, are
given below. Four of them can be put together to
form a coherent paragraph. Identify the odd one out
and key in the number of the sentence as your
answer:
(1) The victim’s trauma after assault rarely gets the
attention that we lavish on the moment of damage
that divided the survivor from a less encumbered
past.
(2) One thing we often do with narratives of sexual
assault is sort their respective parties into
different temporalities: it seems we are interested
in perpetrators’ futures and victims’ pasts.
(3) One result is that we don’t have much of a
vocabulary for what happens in a victim’s life after
the painful past has been excavated, even when
our shared language gestures toward the future,
as the term “survivor” does.
(4) Even the most charitable questions asked about
the victims seem to focus on the past, in pursuit
of understanding or of corroboration of painful
details.
(5) As more and more stories of sexual assault have
been made public in the last two years, the genre
of their telling has exploded --- crimes have a
tendency to become not just stories but genres.
Five jumbled up sentences, related to a topic, are
given below. Four of them can be put together to
form a coherent paragraph. Identify the odd one out
and key in the number of the sentence as your
answer:
(1) Machine learning models are prone to learning
human-like biases from the training data that
feeds these algorithms.
(2) Hate speech detection is part of the on-going
effort against oppressive and abusive language
on social media.
(3) The current automatic detection models miss out
on something vital: context.
(4) It uses complex algorithms to flag racist or violent
speech faster and better than human beings
alone.
(5) For instance, algorithms struggle to determine if
group identifiers like "gay" or "black" are used in
offensive or prejudiced ways because they're
trained on imbalanced datasets with unusually
high rates of hate speech.
Five jumbled up sentences, related to a topic, are
given below. Four of them can be put together to
form a coherent paragraph. Identify the odd one out
and key in the number of the sentence as your
answer:
(1) The logic of displaying one’s inner qualities
through outward appearance was based on a
distinction between being a woman and being
feminine.
(2) 'Appearance' became a signifier of conduct - to
look was to be and conformity to the feminine
ideal was measured by how well women could
use the tools of the fashion and beauty industries.
(3) The makeover-centric media sets out subtly and
not-so-subtly, ‘good’ and ‘bad’ ways to be a
woman, layering these over inequalities of race
and class.
(4) The denigration of working-class women and
women of colour often centres on their perceived
failure to embody feminine beauty.
(5) ‘Woman’ was considered a biological category,
but femininity was a ‘process’ by which women
became specific kinds of women.
Five jumbled up sentences, related to a topic, are given below. Four of them can be put together to form a coherent paragraph. Identify the odd one out and key in the number of the sentence as your answer:
1. There is a dark side to academic research, especially in India, and at its centre is the phenomenon of predatory journals.
2. But in truth, as long as you pay, you can get anything published.
3. In look and feel thus, they are exactly like any reputed journal.
4. They claim to be indexed in the most influential databases, say they possess editorial boards that comprise top scientists and researchers, and claim to have a rigorous peer-review structure.
5. But a large section of researchers and scientists across the world are at the receiving end of nothing short of an academic publishing scam.
Five jumbled up sentences, related to a topic, are given below. Four of them can be put together to form a coherent paragraph. Identify the odd one out and key in the number of the sentence as your answer:
1. The legal status of resources mined in space remains ambiguous; and while the market for asteroid minerals is currently nonexistent, this is likely to change as technical hurdles diminish.
2. Outer space is a commons, and all of it is open for exploration, however, space law developed in the 1950s and 60s is state-centric and arguably ill-suited to a commercial future.
3. Laws adopted by the US and Luxembourg are first steps, but they only protect firms from competing claims by their compatriots; a Chinese company will not be bound by US law.
4. Critics say the US is conferring rights that it has no authority to confer; Russia in particular has condemned this, citing the US’ disrespect for international law.
5. At issue now is commercial activity, as private firms—rather than nation states—look to space for profit.
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. Having an appreciation for the workings of another
person’s mind is considered a prerequisite for
natural language acquisition, strategic social
interaction, reflexive thought, and moral
judgment.
2. It is a ‘theory of mind’ though some scholars
prefer to call it ‘mentalizing’ or ‘mindreading’,
which is important for the development of one's
cognitive abilities.
3. Though we must speculate about its evolutionary
origin, we do have indications that the capacity
evolved sometime in the last few million years.
4. This capacity develops from early beginnings in
the first year of life to the adult’s fast and often
effortless understanding of others’ thoughts,
feelings, and intentions.
5. One of the most fascinating human capacities is
the ability to perceive and interpret other people’s
behaviour in terms of their mental states.
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. In English, there is no systematic rule for the
naming of numbers; after ten, we have "eleven"
and "twelve" and then the teens: "thirteen",
"fourteen", "fifteen" and so on.
2. Even more confusingly, some English words
invert the numbers they refer to: the word
"fourteen" puts the four first, even though it
appears last.
3. It can take children a while to learn all these
words, and understand that "fourteen" is different
from "forty".
4. For multiples of 10, English speakers switch to
a different pattern: "twenty", "thirty", "forty" and
so on.
5. If you didn't know the word for "eleven", you would
be unable to just guess it – you might come up
with something like "one-teen".
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. The banning of Northern Lights could be
considered a precursor to censoring books for
“moral”, world view or religious reasons.
2. Attempts to ban books are attempts to silence
authors who have summoned immense courage
in telling their stories.
3. Now the banning and challenging of books in the
US has escalated to an unprecedented level.
4. The widely acclaimed fantasy novel Northern
Lights was banned in some parts of the US, and
was the second most challenged book in the US.
5. The American Library Association documented
an unparalleled number of reported book
challenges in 2022, about 2,500 unique titles.
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. Self-care particularly links to loneliness,
behavioural problems, and negative academic
outcomes.
2. “Latchkey children” refers to children who
routinely return home from school to empty
homes and take care of themselves for extended
periods of time.
3. Although self-care generally points to negative
outcomes, it is important to consider that the
bulk of research has yet to track long-term
consequences.
4. In research and practice, the phrase “children in
self-care” has come to replace latchkey in an
effort to more accurately reflect the nature of their
circumstances.
5. Although parents might believe that self-care
would be beneficial for development, recent
research has found quite the opposite.
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. Although hard skills have traditionally ruled the
roost, some companies are moving away from
choosing prospective hires based on technical
abilities alone.
2. Companies are shaking off the old definition of
an ideal candidate and ditching the idea of looking
for the singularly perfect candidate altogether.
3. Now, some job descriptions are frequently asking
for candidates to demonstrate soft skills, such
as leadership or teamwork.
4. That’s not to say that practical know-how is no
longer required – some jobs still call for highly
specific expertise
5. The move towards prioritising soft skills “is a
natural response to three years of the pandemic”
says a senior recruiter at Cenlar FSB.
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. Boa Senior, who lived through the 2004 tsunami,
the Japanese occupation and diseases brought
by British settlers, was the last native of the island
chain who was fluent in Bo.
2. The indigenous population has been steadily
collapsing since the island chain was colonised
by British settlers in 1858 and used for most of
the following 100 years as a colonial penal colony.
3. Taking its name from a now-extinct tribe, Bo is
one of the 10 Great Andamanese languages,
which are thought to date back to pre-Neolithic
human settlement of south-east Asia.
4. The last speaker of an ancient tribal language
has died in the Andaman Islands, breaking a
65,000-year link to one of the world's oldest
cultures.
5. Though the language has been closely studied
by researchers of linguistic history, Boa Senior
spent the last few years of her life unable to
converse with anyone in her mother tongue.
