.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. To create a synapse, the neuron has specialized structures, often seen as tiny swellings, at its terminal
end of the axon where it stores the chemicals that are emitted to transmit a signal to the next neuron.
2. This fetal warm-up act—the soldering of neural connections before the eyes actually function—is crucial
to the performance of the visual system.
3. The reasons for this paring back of synapses is a mystery, but synaptic pruning is thought to sharpen and
reinforce the “correct” synapses, while removing the weak and unnecessary ones.
4. Neural connections between the eyes and the brain are formed long before birth, establishing the wiring
and the circuitry that allow a child to begin visualizing the world the minute she emerges from the womb.
5. During this rehearsal period, synapses—points of chemical connection—between nerve cells are
generated in great excess, only to be pruned back during later development.

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. Part of the appeal of forecasting is not just that it seems to work, but that you don’t seem to need
specialized expertise to succeed at it.
2. The tight connection between forecasting and building a model of the world helps explain why so much of
the early interest in the idea came from the intelligence community.
3. This was true even though the latter had access to classified intelligence.
4. One frequently cited study found that accurate forecasters’ predictions of geopolitical events, when
aggregated using standard scientific methods, were more accurate than the forecasts of members of the US
intelligence community who answered the same questions in a confidential prediction market.
5. The aggregated opinions of non-experts doing forecasting have proven to be a better guide to the future
than the aggregated opinions of experts.

 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 UK is a world leader in developing cultivated meat and the approval of a cultivated pet food is an
important milestone.
2. If we’re to realise the full potential benefits of cultivated meat the government must invest in research
and infrastructure.
3. The first UK applications for cultivated meat produced for humans remain under assessment with the
Food Standards Agency.
4. The previous UK government had been looking at fast-tracking the approval of cultivated meat for human
consumption.
5. It underscores the potential for new innovation to help reduce the negative impacts of intensive animal
agriculture.

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. No known real researcher of human behaviour would say that gender is all nature or all nurture.
2. The evidence for a biological basis for gender certainly doesn’t mean we should be complacent in the face
of sexism.
3. Many people are uncomfortable with the idea that gender is not purely a social construct.
4. Despite this empirical truth, researchers who study the biological basis of gender often face political
pushback.
5. There’s a political preference for gender to be only a reflection of social factors and so entirely malleable.

 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. Urbanites also have more and better options for getting around: Uber is ubiquitous; easy-to-rent dockless
bicycles are spreading; battery-powered scooters will be next.
2. When more people use buses or trains the service usually improves because public-transport agencies
run more buses and trains.
3. Worsening services on public transport, terrorist attacks in some urban metros and a rise in fares have
been blamed for this trend.
4. It seems more likely that public transport is being squeezed structurally as people’s need to travel is
diminishing as a result of smartphones, videoconferencing, online shopping and so on.
5. There has been a puzzling decline in the use of urban public transport in many countries in the west,
despite the growth in urban populations and rising employment.