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Question 3 : 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.

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Explanatory Answer

4 is the opening sentence of the paragraph, as it is a general statement describing what the paragraph is about. 4 introduces Singer's Animal Liberation text. 2 explain Singer's view. So, 2 follows 4. We see that 3, too, relates to Singer's views on extending moral consideration to animals. So, 3 follows 2. Singer argues that animals deserve direct moral consideration as, just like humans, they have certain significant interests. Now, between 1 and 5, we see that 5 makes better sense after 3 than 1 as 5, too, is about animal and human interests and it ties in with Singer's idea of humans having direct moral duties towards animals. 5 is a good concluding sentence. On the other hand, we see that option 3 says animals have 'certain significant interests' whereas 1 blandly states only two specific interests of animals while not relating this to humans having 'direct' moral duties towards animals.

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Hence, the answer is 'Animals have an interest in fulfilling their basic needs, but also in avoiding suffering, and thus we ought to extend moral consideration.'

Choice A is the correct answer.

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