Mock Test Solutions for TCS Digitals

Ques. 1 

Identify the option that gives the appropriate and full meaning of the highlighted word in the sentence below:

“Next time, though, he should recruit a less sympathetic colleague to do his editing for him.”

1. deleting portions and rewriting some others
2. proof-reading
3. correcting mistakes and pruning redundancies
4. correcting spelling and grammar mistakes

Correct Answers – correcting mistakes and pruning redundancies

Ques. 2

 Identify the correct option, to fill in the blank and complete the sentence:

___________________________________________________________ but the country is blessed with a charming landscape, extremely friendly people and a unique and fascinating history.

1. Uruguay is often looked over, sandwiched between Argentina and Brazil,
2. Uruguay is often overlooked, sandwiched between Argentina and Brazil,
3. Uruguay is overlooked often, sandwiched between Argentina and Brazil,
4. Uruguay is seldom overlooked, sandwiched between Argentina and Brazil,

Correct Answer -Uruguay is often overlooked, sandwiched between Argentina and Brazil,

Ques. 3 

Identify the option that contains the correct sequence from the sentences below, to make a paragraph:

A. Sidney Chambers isn’t a typical vicar: he drinks, loves jazz, fought in World War II and carries a torch for his childhood friend; he also preaches a radical empathy, weighing the law against religious doctrine and his own sense of right and wrong

B. It combines a classic subgenre — the cozy murder-of-the-week mystery — with a beloved archetype: the righteous, handsome hero who is haunted by his past.

C. Investigating homicides alongside a hard-boiled police detective Geordie gives him the opportunity to practice the radical empathy he preaches from the pulpit.

D. Grantchester belongs to the time-honoured tropes of British mysteries and historical drama in which a young, freethinking country vicar moonlights as a detective in 1950s England.

1. D, A, B, C
2. B, D, C, A
3. D, B, A, C
4. A, B, C, D

Correct Answer – D,B,A,C

Ques. 4 

Identify the option that contains the correct sequence from the sentences below, to make a paragraph:

A. Analysis of a survey of about 8,000 adults by Oxford Economics and the National Centre for Social Research for Sainsbury’s suggested that eating alone has a stronger link to being unhappy than any other factor except mental illness.

B. Research into eating alone is sparse, but some studies have that suggested the practice might be linked to problems including depression, a blockage of blood supply to the heart, obesity and having metabolic syndrome: a combination of conditions such as diabetes and high blood pressure.

C. Researchers have suggested a multitude of factors might be at play, including that eating alone may affect how much we eat, what we eat, and our mood.

D. While many people enjoy eating alone, recent headlines have been quick to scream that it has a dark side.

1. C, D, A, B
2. D, A, B, C
3. A, D, C, B
4. D, B, A, C

Correct Answer – D, B, A, C

Ques. 5

 Identify the correct option, to fill in the blank and complete the sentence:

Cycling can provide high-adrenaline sport or light, relaxing exercise, but whichever way you ride, __________________________________________ _________________________ that you’d never get from a car.

1. getting a bike gives you an up-close view of countryside
2. getting on a bike gives you an up-close view of the countryside
3. getting up a bike gives you an up-close view at the countryside
4. getting on in a bike gives you an up-close view of the countryside

Correct Answer – getting on in a bike gives you an up-close view of the countryside

Ques. 6

Identify the correct option, to fill in the blank and complete the sentence:

____________________________________________________________, countless studies have proved that being outdoors and in contact with nature is beneficial for both physical and mental health.

1. To reducing blood pressure from alleviating symptoms of depression
2. By reducing blood pressure to alleviating symptoms of depression
3. In reducing blood pressure to alleviating symptoms of depression
4. From reducing blood pressure to alleviating symptoms of depression

Correct Answer – From reducing blood pressure to alleviating symptoms of depression

Ques. 7 

Identify the option that gives the appropriate and full meaning of the highlighted word in the sentence below: Football experts now agree that they had failed to reckon with the skill and strategies of the Croatian football team.

1. to take into account
2. to count and calculate
3. to settle the final accounts
4. to detect and understand

Correct Option – to take into account

Ques. 8 

Identify the option that contains the correct sequence from the sentences below, to make a paragraph:

A. Others believed that the strands became electrostatically charged and in doing so, allowed the spiders to ride Earth’s natural electric fields.

B. Darwin reasoned that the spiders must have flown at least 60 miles before reaching the vessel.

C. In October 1832 a young naturalist named Charles Darwin watched with delight as hundreds of tiny spiders dangling from short silk threads floated on to HMS Beagle as the ship made for Buenos Aires.

D. Some scientists said the spiders’ silk thread caught the wind and bore them aloft.

1. C, D, A, B
2. A, D, C, B
3. C, A, B, D
4. C, B, D, A

Correct Answer is CBDA

Ques. 9

Identify the option that gives the appropriate and full meaning of the highlighted word in the sentence below: A newspaper headline: Thailand cave rescue begins: Operation to bring out first group of trapped boys to take about 11 hours

1. a program of action
2. surgical procedure
3. an exertion of power
4. a mathematical process [such as addition]

Correct Answer – a program of action

Ques. 10

 Identify the option that gives the appropriate and full meaning of the highlighted word in the sentence below: Portia [in The Merchant of Venice: Shakespeare] The quality of mercy is not strained. It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven

1. Forced
2. Milked
3. Filtered
4. Stretched

Correct Answer – Forced