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Question 20 : 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. Boa Senior, who lived through the 2004 tsunami, the Japanese occupation
and diseases brought by British settlers, was the last native of the island chain who was fluent
in Bo.
2. The indigenous population has been steadily collapsing since the island chain was
colonised by British settlers in 1858 and used for most of the following 100 years as a colonial
penal colony.
3. Taking its name from a now-extinct tribe, Bo is one of the 10 Great
Andamanese languages, which are thought to date back to pre-Neolithic human settlement of
south-east Asia.
4. The last speaker of an ancient tribal language has died in the Andaman
Islands, breaking a 65,000-year link to one of the world's oldest cultures.
5. Though the
language has been closely studied by researchers of linguistic history, Boa Senior spent the
last few years of her life unable to converse with anyone in her mother tongue.
All sentences except 2 relate to either the language Bo or its last speaker, Boa
Senior. Sentence 2, which is about the collapse of the indigenous population on the island, is
the odd one out.
If the sentences were to be arranged in a paragraph, 4 is the best
starting sentence. 4 mentions 'an ancient tribal language'. 3 names this language and so it
follows 4. These sentences are followed by 1 and 5, both of which relate to Boa Senior, the last
speaker of the language.
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