English-Language Exam Past Questions and Answers | JAMB, WAEC and NECO

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• Question 1:

  Choose the option nearest in meaning to the underlined word(s).

  Agwube's explanation of her poor performance at the examination only begged the question.

  Options:
  A) delayed her punishment
  B) sounded quite convincing
  C) did not address the issue
  D) overflogged the matter
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 2: Choose the option that best completes the gap(s).He isn't coming home, is he? _____ he isn't Options:
  A) yes
  B) no
  C) why
  D) now
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 3:

  In the question below choose the word(s) or phrase which best fills the gap(s):

  One would wish _____ missed that opportunity to be present at the graduation ball

  Options:
  A) to have not
  B) for having not
  C) to having
  D) not to have
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 4: Choose the option opposite in meaning to the underlined word(s).The journalist said he was working freelance. Options:
  A) tirelessly
  B) without a pay
  C) satisfactorily
  D) dependently
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 5:

  Choosing the word or phrase from A to E which has the same meaning as the underlined word or words in each sentence:

  Writing for newspaper is exciting and lucrative especially when one is a freelance journalist

  Options:
  A) a forthright
  B) an eloquent
  C) an unattached
  D) a political
  E) a convincing
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 6:

  It is possible to have a glimpse of life after death. Man has always believed in an afterlife but only today do we have scientific reports of people who seem to have experienced the sensation of dying but lived to tell about it. On-going research is documenting hundreds of cases each year of the near-death experience (NDE), and scientists think they are finding a clearly identifiable pattern: usually a man is dying and as he reaches the point of greatest physical distress, he hears himself pronounced dead by his doctor. He begins to hear an uncomfortable noise, a loud ringing or buzzing and at the same time feels himself moving very rapidly through a long dark tunnel. After this he suddenly finds himself outside of his own physical body, but still in the immediate physical environment and he sees his own body from a distance as though he is a spectator. He watches the resuscitation attempt from this unusual vantage point and is in a state of emotional upheaval.

  After a while, he collects himself and becomes more accustomed to his odd condition. He notices that he still has a ‘body’, but one of a very different nature and with very different powers from the physical body he has left behind. Soon after, things begin to happen. Others come to meet and to help him. He glimpses the spirits of relatives and friends who have already died, and a loving, warming spirit of a kind he has never encountered before-a being of light- appears before him. This being asks him a question, non-verbally- to make him evaluate his life- and helps him along by showing him a panoramic instantaneous playback of the major events of his life. Then he finds that he must go back to earth that the time for his death has not yet come. At this point he resists, for by now he is taken up with his experiences in the afterlife and does not want to return. He is overwhelmed by intense feelings of joy, love and peace. Despite his attitude, though, he somehow reunites with his physical body and lives.

  According to the passage, scientific evidence has made it possible Options:
  A) for the dead to return and tell their experince
  B) to make conjectures about what happens after death
  C) to know a littlt about what happens in the world of the dead
  D) for one to experience the sensation of dying and living again
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 7:

  Read the passage and choose the most appropriate option for each gap.

  Just after ...1..... the aircraft gave a shudder and coughed. The pilot, from the ..2...... activated the emergency sheet to cover the improperly secured left rear ....3.... At the same time, he pushed a button on the panel to activate automatic turning, and the airplane ....4.... north-east He called the control ....5.... to report the misshaped requested clearance for emergency ....6....The plane circled the airport and prepared to return to the airport it had just left. Moments later, the aircraft ....7....to stop on a ....8.... ....9.... in oilskin ran in the light drizzle and were soon perched on the ....10.... of the plane, from where they began their inspection.

  ....9.... in oilskin ran in the light drizzle

  Options:
  A) workers
  B) engineers
  C) fitters
  D) repairers
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 8:

  Choose the one nearest in meaning to the word(s) in bracket

  This type of response is [typical] of a lazy teacher

  Options:
  A) symptomatic
  B) characteristic
  C) universal
  D) incontestable
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 9:

  Choose the option opposite in meaning to word underlined?

  The vice-Chancellor relinquished power at the end of his term?

  Options:
  A) abandoned
  B) weided
  C) gave up
  D) clung on to
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 10:

  Fill each gap with the most appropriate option from the list following the gap.

  Don't _____ said the leader 'I want a decision now?

  Options:
  A) prevaricate
  B) prediccate
  C) precipitate
  D) be pejorative
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  The correct answer is A .