CAT 2024 Slot 1 · VARC · Question 12
CAT 2024 Slot 1 previous year question on Odd One Out, with the answer and a step-by-step solution.
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. Animals have an interest in fulfilling their basic needs, but also in avoiding suffering, and thus we ought to extend moral consideration.
2. Singer viewed himself as a utilitarian, and presents a direct moral theory concerning animal rights, in contrast to indirect positions, such as welfarist views.
3. He argued for extending moral consideration to animals because, similar to humans, animals have certain significant interests.
4. The event that publicly announced animal rights as a legitimate issue within contemporary philosophy was Peter Singer's Animal Liberation text in 1975.
5. As such, we ought to view their interests alongside and equal to human interests, which results in humans having direct moral duties towards animals.
Answer & solution
Answer: 1
Find the opener first. Only sentence 4 introduces its subject in full – 'Peter Singer's Animal Liberation text in 1975' – and announces the topic. The others use 'He' or assume the argument, so 4 opens.
Sentence 2 follows, saying more about Singer: he 'viewed himself as a utilitarian' and offers a direct moral theory rather than an indirect, welfarist one.
Sentence 3 continues with 'He' and gives the reason for that direct theory – animals 'have certain significant interests'.
Sentence 5 closes the chain: 'As such, we ought to view their interests alongside and equal to human interests, which results in humans having direct moral duties towards animals.' 'Their interests' points back to the interests in 3, and 'direct moral duties' answers the 'direct moral theory' in 2. The sequence 4-2-3-5 is complete.
Sentence 1 repeats the claim already made in 3 – that animals have interests and so deserve moral consideration – but in the author's own voice, with no link to Singer, and with different content ('avoiding suffering'). It does not connect to 'direct' moral duties either.
Shortcut: in odd-one-out questions, look for two sentences that make the same point. The one that is not tied in by pronouns or key words to its neighbours is the odd one.
Hence, the answer is 1.
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