Odd one out Questions for CAT

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 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. Bakers who were found to be “cheating” their customers by overpricing undersized loaves were subject to strict punishment, including fines or flogging.

2. Baked goods show fluctuations in rising, baking, air content, and size and weight; and many of these bakers didn’t even have scales to weigh their dough.

3. Even with careful planning it is difficult to ensure that all of your baked foods come out the same size.

4. For fear of accidentally coming up short, they would throw in a bit extra to ensure that they wouldn’t end up with a surprise flogging later.

5. There are a few theories as to why a baker’s dozen became 13 – in medieval England there were laws that related the price of bread to the price of the wheat used to make it.

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] A mathematician and fiction writer, Vernor Vinge is thought to have coined the term ‘the Singularity’ to describe the inflection point when machines outsmart humans.

2] He views the Singularity as an inevitability, even if international rules emerge controlling the development of AI.

3] ‘The competitive advantage – economic, military, even artistic – of every advance in automation is so compelling that passing laws, or having customs, that forbid such things merely assures that someone else will get them first,’ he wrote in a 1993 essay.

4] As for what happens when we hit the Singularity, he says, ‘The physical extinction of the human race is one possibility.’

5] As to which work of science fiction features the best treatment of the Singularity, he thinks that the most courageous walkthrough into the Singularity was ‘Accelerando’ by Charles Stross.

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) The elephant seal population is said to have passed through a ‘population bottleneck’.

(2) An extreme example of such genetic loss is the Florida panther.

(3) This particular species had been hunted nearly to extinction, and even though there has been a rebound in the population since it was protected from further hunting, its overall genetic makeup was severely affected.

(4) In the mid-1970s, a study of twenty-four proteins extracted from North American elephant seals revealed that this rare and highly endangered species shows essentially no genetic variation.

(5) At its low point, each seal seeking a mate had only a very small number of other seals to choose from, resulting in severe inbreeding and a loss of genetic variation.

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. The government should set an example of a good business partner, and release payments in time to companies that undertake various tasks for it.

2. Long drawn disputes jack up the cost of the project, which is wholly avoidable.

3. It leads to time and cost over-runs and slows down both the projects and the companies that implement them.

4. This would make doing business with government easy for private and public sector companies.

5. The government’s habit of delaying payments must end.

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] For the most part, painters have always loved red, from the Palaeolithic period to the most contemporary.

2] Very early on, red’s palette came to offer a variety of shades and to favour more diverse and subtle chromatic play than any other colour.

3] In red, artists found a means to construct pictorial space, distinguish areas and planes, create accents, produce effects of rhythm and movement, and highlight one figure or another.

4] The negative red used in panel paintings from the late Middle Ages was believed to come not from a plant resin but from the blood of a dragon, gored by its mortal enemy, the elephant.

5] On walls, canvas, wood, or parchment, the música of reds was always more pregnant, more cadenced, and more resonant than others.

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] Cyberbullies use electronics, such as cell phones and computers.

2] Unlike traditional face-to-face bullying, the cyberbully can be anonymous.

3] The ability to be anonymous might increase the likelihood that youths will engage in the behaviour.

4] Students might say ‘no’ when asked if they have been ‘cyberbullied’, but ‘yes’ when asked about specific forms or examples of cyberbullying.

5] Furthermore, a cyberbully does not necessarily see the reaction of the victim, making it easier to engage in mean behaviours.

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) Science appears to decree our insignificance; the more we learn about the universe, the more insignificant we seem.

(2) Our significance lies not in our size relative to the rest of the cosmos, but rather in how different we are from everything else in it.

(3) The stuff that we are made of – electrons, protons and neutrons – comprises a small fraction of what fills the universe.

(4) We live on a small planet around a small star, in an average-sized galaxy among billions of other galaxies, in an expanding universe made mostly of mysterious ingredients of yet unknown composition.

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. Birds that build their nests on the ground might want to keep them well camouflaged to help hide them from predators.

2. Birds in a cold climate, for example, might line their nests with insulating materials, such as grass, to help keep the eggs warm.

3. Depending on the location and climate of the bird's habitat, bird nests might need to serve different purposes.

4. Some birds weave together grass and twigs to form a basket; others might use binding materials, such as mud or even their own saliva to build or help support the nest.

5. Birds that build their nests in trees need them to be well supported so they don't get blown out by a gust of wind.

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. There’s only so much space, so many chairs, so much goodwill to go around.

2. On certain issues, maybe all issues, we’re dealing with a zero sum game; your health or theirs, your safety or theirs, your children or theirs.

3. ‘Reality’ sets the bounds of the possible, the terms of debate, and the imaginative limits we need to work under.

4. Politically, however, it’s a little much to swallow.

5. Thus for politics, that art of the possible, reality says that there are winners and losers.

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. Cereal grains are generally wind-pollinated and are unaffected by bee populations.
2. This would alter the composition of their habitats and affect the food webs they are part of and would likely trigger additional extinctions.
3. A number of plants are pollinated exclusively by specific bees, and they would die off without human intervention.
4. Plants may also utilize a variety of pollinators, but most are successfully pollinated by bees.
5. If all of the world's bees died off, there would be major rippling effects throughout ecosystems.