Odd one out Questions for CAT

Five jumbled 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 out and key in the number of that sentence as your answer.

1. Photographic studios in the eighteen sixties usually charged by the plate and sold the finished portraits in sets of a dozen.
2. Studios propped heads against iron stands and told sitters to fix their eyes on a spot on the wall.
3. People in early photographic portraits look solemn, and the usual explanation is that life was harder then.
4. What we read as the mood of a whole century is really the mark of a long exposure.
5. The real reason is duller: a sitter had to hold still for many seconds, and a smile cannot be held that long without collapsing.

Five jumbled 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 out and key in the number of that sentence as your answer.

1. Cart wheels were built in pairs to one pattern but were never quite alike, and each was marked so that it went back on the side it came off.
2. A wheelwright can often name what is wrong with a cart before it has come to a stop, because a fault in a wheel has a sound of its own.
3. A dry hub squeals under load and falls silent when the cart runs empty, which no loose joint ever does.
4. The vehicle, in short, describes its own faults out loud, and half the trade is a matter of listening on the way in.
5. A loose spoke knocks once a turn, always at the same point in the circle, so counting the knocks gives away where it sits.

Five jumbled 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 out and key in the number of that sentence as your answer.

1. The air at that hour is cool and still, so a call travels further than it will all day.
2. The dawn chorus is therefore less a celebration than a sensible use of an hour that is good for nothing else.
3. Birds sing most in the hour before sunrise, when it is still too dark to hunt for food.
4. Recordings of morning song are usually made from a fixed point, so that the same birds are captured each time.
5. Nothing better can be done with the time, and the sound reaches more listeners than it would at noon.

Five jumbled 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 out and key in the number of that sentence as your answer.

1. That is the sort of thing no examination finds, and the vet asks about it before lifting the foot.
2. The vet is called out on a Tuesday because a cow has gone lame at the back of the herd.
3. By the time the foot is off the ground, half the diagnosis has been made by somebody who was only doing the milking.
4. The herdsman noticed her three days earlier, when she was last into the parlour two mornings running.
5. Farm calls are charged with a mileage rate on top of a visit fee, and a call after six in the evening costs more.

Five jumbled 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 out and key in the number of that sentence as your answer.

1. There is no time to decide at the anvil anyway, because the heat begins leaving the metal the moment the work starts.
2. A hammer blow cannot be taken back, since metal moved in one direction will not move back on the next stroke.
3. The thinking is therefore done cold and at leisure, while the working is done hot and in a hurry.
4. So a smith settles on the shape before the metal is heated, and not while it is glowing on the anvil.
5. Aprons are cut from leather because a spark that lands on cloth will burn straight through it.

Four sentences related to a topic are given below. Three 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) Working on mathematical skills is not unlike practising a sport: neither can be learned by watching others perform the activity and both require encouragement and effort.

(2) Few people would consider proudly announcing that they are bad at writing or reading.

(3) Why do smart people enjoy saying that they are bad at math?

(4) This communal math hatred may seem rather innocuous, but we are passing on the phobia for mathematics and with that are priming our children for mathematical anxiety.

Five jumbled 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 out and key in the number of that sentence as your answer.

1. Caseworkers are usually recruited from the sectors they go on to review, so a complaint about an industry is typically handled by somebody who once worked in it.
2. Counting findings measures the cases that got through, and misses the far greater number that were settled by the possibility of one.
3. Its larger effect is upstream, in the bodies that revise a letter, a form or a refusal because somebody inside those bodies asked how it would read to an outsider.
4. The visible output of an ombudsman is a handful of findings a year, a number small enough to make the office look ornamental.
5. That question gets asked only where a referral is credible, so the office does most of its work in rooms it never enters.

Five jumbled 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 out and key in the number of that sentence as your answer.

1. A claim that rests on use rather than on paper is therefore invisible from overhead, not because the view is biased but because such claims leave no mark that reaches upward.
2. Satellite passes over a given point repeat on a cycle of a few days, and each image is corrected for terrain before it is distributed.
3. An image of that sort is not a neutral copy of a landscape; it is a landscape with one kind of evidence kept and another kind quietly discarded.
4. Seen from above, a field is a shape, and the shape can be measured, compared with last year and filed without anyone going anywhere near it.
5. That convenience is the whole appeal, and it is also the point at which a particular kind of information stops being collected, because the view from overhead has no way of recording who walks across the shape in June and by what right.

Five jumbled 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 out and key in the number of that sentence as your answer.

1. Borax is scattered over hot metal before a weld to keep scale from forming, and a shop buys it in bulk rather than in the small tins sold for other trades.
2. The technique is in that respect the opposite of a rivet, which announces itself permanently and tells a later reader exactly where one thing stopped and another began.
3. Two pieces of steel brought to the right heat and struck together become one piece, with no seam, no filler and nothing along the join that a later eye can find.
4. A gate repaired in this way three times over two centuries presents itself as a single piece of work, and offers no internal evidence that it is anything else.
5. That is a considerable convenience for a smith and a considerable nuisance for anybody trying to establish what an old object originally was.

Five jumbled 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 out and key in the number of that sentence as your answer.

1. A record assembled by that sort of accident is badly skewed, over-representing the trades that advertised on brick and leaving no trace at all of the ones that used paper.
2. Painted advertisements outlive the businesses that paid for them, sometimes by a century, because nobody has any particular reason to remove a wall.
3. Reading a street as a history of its commerce means reading a survival, and a survival is always an argument about what lasted rather than an account of what there was.
4. Paint for exterior lettering is mixed to a gloss the writer chooses, and a matt finish is avoided on any surface that rain will run over.
5. What survives on a gable end is therefore not what anybody chose to preserve, it is what happened to be painted in a durable colour on a surface nobody later wanted.

Five jumbled 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 out and key in the number of that sentence as your answer.

1. The arguing is the game, or at least the part of it that does work no adult organised sport can do, since a rule that can be changed has to be justified to the people it binds.
2. What is learned in the unrefereed version is therefore not the sport at all but the habit of making a case to an equal who is free to refuse it.
3. Watch a game invented by eight year olds and most of the time is spent not playing it but arguing about what it is.
4. Organised youth leagues typically group players by year of birth and fix the size of the pitch to the age band.
5. A referee removes that burden by settling the matter from outside, which is efficient and which also ends the conversation the children were having.

Five jumbled 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 out and key in the number of that sentence as your answer.

1. A public rite settles that problem in a single afternoon, by making the new position known to the whole community at the same moment and in front of witnesses.
2. A ceremony that marks a person’s passage from one status to another is often treated as a decoration on a change that has already happened.
3. What looks like ornament is therefore the mechanism itself, and a society that abandons its ceremonies has to find some slower way of telling everybody where each person now stands.
4. The change, however, is not complete until everybody else knows it has occurred, since a status is held in the opinions of other people and nowhere else.
5. Civil registration offices record marriages and adoptions in a register that is indexed by year and open to public search.

Five jumbled 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 out and key in the number of that sentence as your answer.

1. Permanence was never a virtue of paper so much as an accident of it, and losing the accident has taken the audit trail with it.
2. Text on a website is stored separately from the layout that presents it, so the same words can appear in half a dozen shapes on different screens.
3. A file can be repaired at any hour, and the repaired version replaces the old one everywhere at once, which sounds like an improvement and mostly is one.
4. A printed error is a fact about the world: the sheet exists, the copies are out, and no amount of regret changes what was set in type.
5. What that costs is the evidence, since a reader who remembers something different has no way to show it, and the file now agrees with whoever edited last.

Five jumbled 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 out and key in the number of that sentence as your answer.

1. A cone can take that thrust, because the push runs down the leaning spokes as compression and straight into the hub, where the wood is thickest.
2. A cart wheel is not flat, it is coned, with the spokes leaning outward from the hub so that the rim stands clear of the line of the axle.
3. Build it flat and the same push has nothing to travel along, so it bends the spokes instead and the wheel folds inward at the first bad rut.
4. Hubs are bored and mortised while the elm is still green, since seasoned elm blunts an auger and resists the chisel at every cut.
5. The reason is that a loaded cart lurches sideways on rutted ground, and every lurch throws weight against one wheel from the inside.

Five jumbled 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 out and key in the number of that sentence as your answer.

1. Jurisdiction in a complaints scheme is fixed by statute rather than by the nature of the harm, which obliges an office to decline complaints falling a few weeks or a few metres outside a remit drawn without reference to the case in front of it.
2. The complainant who is then told that the complaint has been upheld is being told that a narrow thing went wrong, and often understands it as a finding about the whole of the wrong.
3. A grievance arrives at a complaints office as a story about a life and leaves it as a case about a procedure, and the conversion between the two is performed so routinely that it is rarely described as a conversion at all.
4. Satisfaction and vindication come apart at precisely that point, which is why an office can close a file as resolved and leave behind somebody who feels, correctly, that nothing has been answered.
5. A complaints office can act only on whether a rule was followed, so everything in that story which is not a rule, the years of it, the humiliation, the ordinary exhaustion, is set aside not because it is doubted but because there is no box for it.

Five jumbled 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 out and key in the number of that sentence as your answer.

1. What the arithmetic leaves out sits on the other side of the ledger and arrives late, since the capacity to judge a street, a stranger and a route is acquired by practising on streets, strangers and routes, and its absence is discovered years after the practice was declined.
2. The explanation is not that parents have become irrational, but that the cost of the two possible errors is now wildly unequal: a child who roams and is harmed produces a verdict on the parent, while a child who never roams produces nothing that anyone will ever notice.
3. An asymmetry of that shape does not need fear to operate; it needs only a reasonable person doing the arithmetic of blame, and it will keep producing the same answer in household after household while looking, from any distance, like a change of temperament across a whole society.
4. Local authorities in many places operate school crossing patrols at fixed hours and publish the routes on which they are staffed.
5. The distance a child is allowed to travel alone has contracted across three generations, from a few kilometres to the end of a road, and it has contracted in places where the measured danger to children fell over the same period.

Five jumbled 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 out and key in the number of that sentence as your answer.

1. Whether that is an appropriation of something farmers once held or simply the price of a genuine gain is a question the agronomy cannot settle, since the agronomy is the same either way.
2. The cross between two inbred parents yields a first generation that outperforms both, and the advantage is real, measurable and worth paying for in a season when a few extra quintals decide whether a loan is serviced.
3. A property of the biology therefore performs the office of a contract, binding a buyer to return each year without any clause having been written, negotiated or signed.
4. What the second generation does is segregate, so seed saved from that harvest produces a field of unequal plants, and the farmer who saved it learns of the difference at flowering, months after the decision could have been reversed.
5. Hybrid seed is produced under contract in isolated plots, and the growers who raise it are paid by weight delivered rather than by the area they plant.

Five jumbled 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 out and key in the number of that sentence as your answer.

1. A courthouse teaches deference through the distance a petitioner walks before anyone acknowledges them, and not through the inscription carved above the door.
2. Competition briefs for such buildings now commonly require each shortlisted practice to submit an account of running costs over a sixty year horizon.
3. Public architecture is habitually defended in the language of symbolism, as though a civic building's chief task were to say something about the values of those who commissioned it.
4. The building's argument is therefore made in plan rather than in elevation, which is precisely the drawing that the ceremonial photograph never shows.
5. The difficulty with that defence is that symbols are read once and then cease to be read, while a threshold, a corridor and a waiting room are met daily and go on instructing long after the rhetoric has faded.

Five jumbled 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 out and key in the number of that sentence as your answer.

1. Districts left off the early plans tend to stay off the later ones, because each extension is costed against an existing network and the distance from it is treated as an argument against the extension rather than as evidence of an older exclusion.
2. A sewer network is laid in an order, and the order is never a technical fact alone, since a pipe can in principle be taken anywhere and money decides where it actually goes.
3. Gradients in a gravity system are fixed within narrow limits, since a flow too slow deposits solids and a flow too fast scours the concrete it runs over.
4. A century afterwards the result is read as a map of terrain and density, which is to say as nature, when it is a map of a settled opinion about who counted.
5. The sequence of connection therefore records, more durably than any document of intent, which parts of a city were understood at the time to contain people whose waste was a public matter.

Five jumbled 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 out and key in the number of that sentence as your answer.

1. The objection is not that the machine has no taste, but that taste, in the sense the word carries in criticism, was never a property an individual possessed alone.
2. A model trained on a century of reviews can predict which novels a particular readership will call accomplished, and it can do so without having read a page in the way a reader reads one.
3. Critics who insist that judgement cannot be automated tend to describe it as an interior faculty, something exercised in solitude and answerable to nobody.
4. It was always a claim made in public, addressed to people who might dissent, and revisable by them.
5. The predictions improve, in the usual way, as the corpus widens and the labels grow more consistent.