TCS NQT Verbal Ability 2022

1. We are _______ with hundreds of adverts every day. Commercials on television, billboards on highways, posters on walls, and street ___________ of flyers and booklets are all examples.

2. The psychic made several future _________, but none of them came true.

3. Read the passage and answer the question

Rosio Sanchez, a Mexican American chef who lives in Copenhagen, makes the best tortillas in Scandinavia. That, she admits, isn't necessarily saying much -- like laying claim to the best pizza in Indonesia, “It was so much worse” she said, describing the state of Mexican food when she arrived in 2010 to work as the pastry chef in the celebrated restaurant Noma. “Imagine the worst Tex-Mex food in America and imagine that being passed on like a game of telephone, by people who have no idea what real Mexican food is” that is beginning to change, and not only in Copenhagen, Where Mrs. Sanchez has opened a Taqueria with freshly ground hand-pressed corn tortillas.

It goes far beyond tacos and tortillas, though Mexican cuisine has made the leap to the global stage of fine dining.

Chefs are making house-cured chorizo in Toronto, and Michelin-starred chilaquiles at Punto MX in Madrid. Last week, the Houston chef Hugo Ortega, who began his working life as a shoeshine boy in Mexico City, received the James Beard Foundation’s award for best chef in his region: a first for a Mexico-born chef.

“Everywhere, I see a new respect for Mexican culture,” said Martha Ortiz, a celebrity chef in Mexico who is opening a warmly elegant restaurant, Ella Canta, in the InterContinental London Park Lane hotel this summer. Ten years ago, when a taco in London might easily have contained canned baked beans, the idea of a Mexican restaurant in a posh hotel would have been mystifying.

“Our traditional food has always had a high value at home, and there is a lot of respect for the women who produce it,” she said. “But for people internationally to be excited about it and willing to pay for it? That is new.”

What was the state of Mexican food when Rosio Sanchez arrived to work in Noma?

4. Based upon above passage:-

What was new for the Mexican food? 

5. MS Dhoni stated, "I've fulfilled a life ambition, a desire for myself ______ I had for many years."

6. For the four sentences S1 to S4 paragraph below, sentences S1 and S4 are given. From the options P Q and R, choose appropriate sentences for the following.

S1- Gandhi does not oppose machines in general.
S2-
S3-
S4 He objects to the passion for machines rather than the machinery itself.

P: He claims that equipment nowadays just assists a few in riding on the backs of millions.

Q: And he goes on to say that the spinning wheel is machinery, and that even a small toothpick is a machine.

R: "How can I be against machines when I know that even my own body is a delicate piece of equipment?" he wonders.

7. S1: On Saturday, I went out with several pals.

P: After the expedition, I went to my uncle's house for supper.

Q: For dinner, we had pizza.

R: We went to my house for coffee after dinner.

S: After coffee, my uncle stayed.

S6: He arrived home late at night.

8. Which of the following sentences uses formal language?

9. Which of the following sentences does NOT use informal language?

10. Which of the following options means the same as the highlighted phrase below:

I appreciated my brother's ability to think outside the box.

11. During the pandemic, the physicians decided to call it a day after working all day and half the night.

12. The man with the black suitcase ________ we observed on closed-circuit television did not appear suspicious in the slightest.

13. For the four sentences S1 to S4 in the paragraph below, sentences S1 and S4 are given. From the options P Q and R choose appropriate sentences from S2 and S3 appropriately.

S1: The past is not dead and stagnant; it is alive and dynamic, and it plays a role in defining the quality of our present and future possibilities.
S2:
S3:
S4: As a result, I dedicate myself to the allegiance of our previous culture, regardless of where it came from or who contributed to it ( Dr Radhakrishnan)

P: The process of continual renewal is, in fact, the process of national culture and character evolution.

Q: It is the work of education, as I see it, to minister this continual regeneration, and I may be forgiven for supposing that my election to the high position is based mostly, if not totally, on my lengthy involvement with my people's education.

R: Working on oneself entails following one's desire for greater growth as a free person and under self-imposed discipline, which is the only way to achieve it.

14. There is no doubt /that this year will be the most difficult and disruptive year/ that many of us have ever lived through.

15. Find the incorrect part in the given sentence(if any).

A. I have received a B. call from my sister C. while I was at work.

16. If I had seen the artwork on exhibit before the sale, I would have bid _________.

17. Despite the research facility's upper administration ______ his prior attempts, the doctor was determined to continue his studies.

18. Experts believe that developing several vaccinations will be necessary to begin the process of safeguarding the world's population from Covid- 19. The majority of the current vaccination front-runners require two ______, which may be given once a year. There is no such thing as a 100 percent effective vaccination, and even if one is authorized, there are still numerous _____ to overcome before a vaccine can be widely distributed.

Blank 1: A- doses B- bouts C- spells D- circles

Blank 2: A- tracks B- jumps C- hurdles D- snags

19. Many professions, from hairdressers to waiters, have begun to wear face shields as a result of the coronavirus epidemic. However,  a new study has ______ that these plastic barriers are ineffective and might potentially allow airborne coronavirus particles to escape. Researchers from Japan's Riken Centre used Fugaku, the world's fastest supercomputer, to run a simulation.Almost all airborne droplets smaller than 5 micrometers ________ through the plastic visor, according to the simulation, but just 50% of bigger droplets made it into the air.

1. Blank 1 - A. told       B. informed       C. warned        D. sneaked
2. Blank 2 - A. escaped      B. discharged      C. vanished      D. seeped

20. Find the incorrect part in the given sentence(if any).

A. At the city's Institute of Medical Sciences, a high-tech B. equipment were unveiled, C. that is capable of doing 3000 RT-PCR tests D. for Coronavirus in a single day.