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Four of the five sentences below, labelled 1-5, form a coherent paragraph. Identify the ONE sentence that does not fit and enter its number.
1. Coffee cultivation is believed to have originated in the highlands of Ethiopia, where local legend credits a goat herder with noticing his goats' energetic behaviour after eating coffee cherries.
2. By the fifteenth century, coffee had spread to Yemen, where Sufi monasteries used it to stay alert during long nights of prayer.
3. Tea, by contrast, has its earliest documented origins in ancient China, where it was initially valued primarily for its medicinal properties.
4. Coffeehouses spread rapidly through the Ottoman Empire and, by the seventeenth century, into Europe, becoming centers of conversation, commerce, and political discussion.
5. The global coffee trade today involves tens of millions of smallholder farmers across more than fifty countries near the equator.
1. Coffee cultivation is believed to have originated in the highlands of Ethiopia, where local legend credits a goat herder with noticing his goats' energetic behaviour after eating coffee cherries.
2. By the fifteenth century, coffee had spread to Yemen, where Sufi monasteries used it to stay alert during long nights of prayer.
3. Tea, by contrast, has its earliest documented origins in ancient China, where it was initially valued primarily for its medicinal properties.
4. Coffeehouses spread rapidly through the Ottoman Empire and, by the seventeenth century, into Europe, becoming centers of conversation, commerce, and political discussion.
5. The global coffee trade today involves tens of millions of smallholder farmers across more than fifty countries near the equator.
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Answer: 3
Sentences 1, 2, 4 and 5 trace the history and spread of coffee, from its Ethiopian origins through Yemen and the Ottoman Empire to today's global trade. Sentence 3 shifts the topic to tea's separate origin in China and does not belong in this paragraph about coffee.
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