Exercise and Brain
CAT 2017 Slot 1 · Verbal Ability & Reading Comprehension · Easy · Verbal Ability
This is an easy Verbal Ability & Reading Comprehension question from the CAT 2017 Slot 1 paper. It tests Verbal Ability. The full answer key and a step-by-step explanation are below — try it yourself first, then reveal the solution.
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 it in.
- Neuroscientists have just begun studying exercise's impact within brain cells — on the genes themselves.
- Even there, in the roots of our biology, they've found signs of the body's influence on the mind.
- It turns out that moving our muscles produces proteins that travel through the bloodstream and into the brain, where they play pivotal roles in the mechanisms of our highest thought processes.
- In today's technology-driven, plasma-screened-in world, it's easy to forget that we are born movers — animals, in fact — because we've engineered movement right out of our lives.
- It's only in the past few years that neuroscientists have begun to describe these factors and how they work, and each new discovery adds awe-inspiring depth to the picture
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Explanation
Sentences 1, 2, 3, and 5 specifically discuss neuroscientific discoveries on how physical exercise impacts brain cells and thought processes. Sentence 4 makes a general societal remark about modern technology causing lack of movement, which does not fit into the scientific flow. Thus 4 is the odd one out.
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