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:
- Our smartphones can now track our diets, our biological cycles, even our digestive systems and sleep-patterns.
- 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.
- Sleep, nature’s soft nurse, is a blissful, untroubled state all too easily disturbed by earthly worries or a guilty conscience.
- 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.
- A new threat to a good night’s rest has emerged – smart-phones, with sleep-tracking apps
The Correct Option is B
Solution and Explanation
- Sentence 1 discusses how smartphones track various personal attributes, including sleep patterns.
- Sentence 2 introduces a term "orthosomnia," referring to insomnia caused by over-attention to sleep-tracking apps on smartphones.
- Sentence 3 poetically describes sleep as a nurturing and peaceful state which can be disrupted.
- Sentence 4 explains the demand for sleep-tracking apps due to lifestyle factors affecting rest.
- Sentence 5 warns of smartphones and their apps as potential threats to restful sleep.
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