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Three out of four sentences in each question, when correctly sequenced, form a coherent paragraph. Which sentence does not fit into the context?1. The history of transportation will always be social history, writ large.2. Food tastes can change from decade to decade, even from year to year; the history of transportation tends to span half-century intervals, marking whole epochs in consciousness.3. The car is the consumer economy on wheels: atomizing, competitive, inhuman—and implicitly racist, hiving people off to segregated communities—while the subway and the train are communal zendos.4. How we move unites us.

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Three out of four sentences in each question, when correctly sequenced, form a coherent paragraph. Which sentence does not fit into the context?1. The history of transportation will always be social history, writ large.2. Food tastes can change from decade to decade, even from year to year; the history of transportation tends to span half-century intervals, marking whole epochs in consciousness.3. The car is the consumer economy on wheels: atomizing, competitive, inhuman—and implicitly racist, hiving people off to segregated communities—while the subway and the train are communal zendos.4. How we move unites us.

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The sentence that does not fit into the context is "Food tastes can change from decade to decade, even from year to year; the history of transportation tends to span half-century intervals, marking whole epochs in consciousness." This sentence is more about food tastes rather than the history of transportation.

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