Question

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.

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

Answer 1

The Correct Option is D

The provided sentences explain the development and approval of cultivated meat, highlighting the UK's pioneering role and the potential for innovation and environmental gains. The goal is to find the sentence that does not fit the consistent story about cultivated meat progress and approvals.

A cohesive paragraph should cover the following points:

• The UK's leading role in cultivated meat development and key achievements.
• How cultivated meat is approved in the UK.
• The advantages of cultivated meat, like lessening the harm from industrial farming.
• The need for government funding in cultivated meat research and facilities.

Analyzing each sentence:

• Sentence 1: Mentions the UK's leadership and a significant step in cultivated pet food, fitting the topic.
• Sentence 2: Stresses the importance of government funding, supporting the idea of cultivated meat's development and potential benefits.
• Sentence 3: Addresses the approval process for eating cultivated meat, which is central to the narrative.
• Sentence 4: Describes past government efforts to speed up approval. This sentence slightly shifts the focus to past actions rather than current progress and implications, making it less relevant.
• Sentence 5: Underscores the potential benefits and new developments in cultivated meat.

Therefore, the sentence ‘The previous UK government had been looking at fast-tracking the approval of cultivated meat for human consumption.’ does not align well with the other sentences, which concentrate on current accomplishments and the future possibilities of cultivated meat. It focuses on past political actions, not current progress and its consequences, making it the outlier.

Outlier Sentence: The previous UK government had been looking at fast-tracking the approval of cultivated meat for human consumption.