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Five sentences numbered 1–5 are given below. Four of them form a coherent paragraph, while one does not fit. Key in the number of the sentence that does NOT fit.
1. Coffee's spread across the world in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries was inseparable from the rise of the coffeehouse as a new kind of public space.
2. Unlike taverns, coffeehouses served a stimulant rather than a depressant, and their patrons, rather than growing looser and louder with the evening, remained alert enough to read newspapers, debate politics and strike business deals.
3. In London, a single penny bought not just a cup of coffee but admission to a room where merchants, scientists and pamphleteers exchanged information so freely that some coffeehouses became known as 'penny universities'.
4. Tea, by contrast, was popularised in Britain largely through the East India Company's trade networks and became strongly associated with domestic, rather than public, consumption.
5. Historians have argued that this sober, information-rich sociability made the coffeehouse a genuine incubator of Enlightenment ideas and early financial institutions, from insurance underwriting to stock trading.
1. Coffee's spread across the world in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries was inseparable from the rise of the coffeehouse as a new kind of public space.
2. Unlike taverns, coffeehouses served a stimulant rather than a depressant, and their patrons, rather than growing looser and louder with the evening, remained alert enough to read newspapers, debate politics and strike business deals.
3. In London, a single penny bought not just a cup of coffee but admission to a room where merchants, scientists and pamphleteers exchanged information so freely that some coffeehouses became known as 'penny universities'.
4. Tea, by contrast, was popularised in Britain largely through the East India Company's trade networks and became strongly associated with domestic, rather than public, consumption.
5. Historians have argued that this sober, information-rich sociability made the coffeehouse a genuine incubator of Enlightenment ideas and early financial institutions, from insurance underwriting to stock trading.
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Answer: 4
Sentences 1, 2, 3 and 5 together build a single argument about the coffeehouse as a distinctive public, sociable space that incubated Enlightenment-era institutions. Sentence 4 shifts the subject to tea and its association with private, domestic consumption in Britain — a different topic that interrupts the paragraph's focus on the coffeehouse.
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