Question

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:

• A. Our smartphones can now track our diets, our biological cycles, even our digestive systems and sleep-patterns.
• B. 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.
• C. Sleep, nature’s soft nurse, is a blissful, untroubled state all too easily disturbed by earthly worries or a guilty conscience.
• D. 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.
• E. A new threat to a good night’s rest has emerged – smart-phones, with sleep-tracking apps

Answer 1

Answer: (B)

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.

Answer 2

The correct answer is (B):
This question is slightly dubious. Though the official answer is 3, it is statement 1 that should be the right answer. We can start with statement 3, and continue the idea with statement 5. Statement 2 takes over from 5, with statement 4 coming at the end. Thus 3524 form a coherent paragraph, leaving 1 as the odd one out.
Statement 3 speaks of the things that are likely to disturb sleep. Statement 5 adds one more threat- smartphones. Statement 2 gives a name to that threat, while 4 adds some more information as to why such apps have found a market.
Statement 1 should be the odd one out. However, surprisingly, the official answer given by CAT is 3.