TCS SMART Verbal English Questions and Answers

1. PM Modi passed a much-hated bill sparked off a wave of public ________which could not be _________by the concessions the Congress announced.

2. The painting in the exhibition was quite amazing and coloured.

3. A: More verbs are used by good authors.

B: However, writing without verbs is quite difficult.

C: The rationale for this is that reducing redundant words raises the verb-percentage as a statistical imperative.

D: So, "use verbs?" isn't exactly sound advice; authors must use verbs, because attempting to add them will be counterproductive.

4. Choose the closest meaning for the given word:-

Stern

5. Choose the closest meaning for the given word:-

Phobia

6. Direction for Q1 to Q3: Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow:

There are good reasons why the ‘Heart of Asia’ conference, part of a 14-nation process begun in 2011 to facilitate the development and security of Afghanistan, is so named. The obvious one is geographical, as Afghanistan lies at the junction of Central, South and East Asia, and also of the ancient trading routes from China and India to Europe. Today it is also a focal point for the region’s biggest challenge of terrorism; some of the far-reaching battles against al-Qaeda, Islamic State, etc. will be decided on the battlegrounds of Afghanistan. For India, putting terror centre stage at the Heart of Asia declaration in Amritsar was thus timely and necessary. In tandem, Afghan President Ashraf Ghani and Prime Minister Narendra Modi focussed their concerns on cross-border terrorism emanating from Pakistan, something even Pakistan’s traditional allies at the conference, including China, Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Turkey, found difficult to counter. The case Mr. Ghani made was clear: progress and development in Afghanistan are meaningless and unsustainable without peace, and peace is contingent on Pakistan ending support to terror groups such the Haqqani network and Lashkar-e-Taiba. He dared Pakistan to use its proposed development grant to Afghanistan to fight terror on its own soil.

However, if every window for engagement with Pakistan is closed for India and Afghanistan, the two countries must closely consider what their next step will be. A lack of engagement may, in the short term, yield some pressure on Pakistan’s leadership to act, as it did briefly after the Pathankot attack. But in the long run it may deplete the two countries of their limited leverage as Pakistan’s neighbours. It may, for all the affirmations of mutual ties, also succeed in driving more obstacles to trade between India and Afghanistan. In the past year, the cornering of Pakistan by its South Asian neighbours has only yielded deeper ties for Islamabad with Beijing and Moscow, pushed Kabul closer to Central Asia, and moved New Delhi towards multilateral groupings to the east and south. As a result, the measures India and Afghanistan have envisaged in order to avoid Pakistan, such as land trade from the Chabahar port and a dedicated air corridor between Delhi and Kabul, may prove to be insufficient by the time they are put in place, even as Afghanistan is connected more closely via a rail line from China’s Yiwu and Tehran. The Heart of Asia process thus remains critical to forging cooperation to realize Afghanistan’s potential to be a vibrant Asian “hub”.

Q1. What according to the author was the initial agenda for the ‘Heart of Asia’ conference?

7. Q2: Which among the following statements is not true according to the passage?

8. Q3:

Which of the following words is OPPOSITE in the meaning of the word ‘affirmations’ as used in the passage?

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11. Identify the speech of the sentence and translate it accordingly:

The manager said to the employees, ‘Do not let the policies be known to the competitors.’

12. Fill in the blanks with appropriate word:

Kiran kher was relieved to hear from the doctor that the tumour causing her cancer was not malignant; it was _____

13. "Some men are definitely intelligent, others are definitely not intelligent, but of intermediate men, we should say, 'intelligent'? Yes, I think, so or no, I shouldn't be inclined to call him intelligent."

Which of the following reflects the intention of the writer well?

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16. I go to Kolkata by —– Rajdhani Express

17. In the question given below,  a part of the sentence is given in bold. It is then followed by four options. Find the alternative that can replace the given bold part to make the sentence grammatically and contextually correct.

A program for the break out of epidemic in some areas must be introduced.

18. Choose the closest meaning of the given word :
DELECTABLE

19. After a short and ________________ movement that ousted the President, General Monsanto declared himself the sole ruler of the country

20. Read each sentence to find out whether there is any grammatical error in it. The error, if any, will be in one part of the sentence. The letter of that part is the answer. If there is no error, the answer is 'D'. (Ignore the errors of punctuation, if any).