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

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• Question 1:

  In the question below choose the option opposite in meaning to the word underlined:

  Jim was one of the spectators as the concert

  Options:
  A) ushers
  B) judges
  C) guest
  D) performers
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 2:

  Fill the blank spaces with the most appropriate of options A-E:

  _____ any good films lately?

  Options:
  A) You would like to see
  B) Have you seen
  C) Are you going to see
  D) Would you see
  E) You are seeing
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 3:

    ADUKE: Listen my fellow women. The issue has little to do with being literate or not. It is true that most members of NAM (New Awareness Movement) are literate, but this does not make all of us enlightened. We must be able to draw a line between the two. You may be literate and yet possess a consciousness that is decadent and servile. On the other hand you may not have received formal education and yet may be the greatest exponent of progressive ideas.

    HASANA: I agree with what our sister has said. Let us not allow ourselves to be divided by a greedy and an inflated notion of the certificates we possess. In this century, as we march towards the year 2000, our primary concern should be how best to improve the lot of womanhood in our society. Let us not forget that for each woman who is beaten up by her man for flimsy reasons are status of all of us here is downgraded. For each woman who is insulted for no reason than that of her sex, every one of us here is spat on in the face. For each woman who is denied opportunities in the society simply because she is a woman, the whole lot of us are dehumanized. Each widow in this society is an everywoman, and the lot of each of us should be viewed as collective. Each rotten egg that is thrown at anyone of us is an eternal splash of dirt on our faces. Each decayed tomato that is cast at her is a collective curse on our fecundity: each pebble thrown at her, a missile against our womanhood. This is an age of awareness, and it is the duty of NAM to collectively rise in defence of the right of women.

    IME: We can no longer allow ourselves to be fried alive. We are going to squeeze ourselves into tight-fitting trousers, register into judo classes, and then file out into the street and punch the face of every man we behold.

  ‘Each widow in this society is Every woman’ means that Options:
  A) Every woman in the society is potentially a widow
  B) Every widow in the society is a woman
  C) The suffering of every widow represents the burden of all women
  D) Widowhood implies the isolation of the woman in the society
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 4:

  Choose the appropriate option to fill the gap in the following sentences:

  Legislators must be trained to _____ the truth

  Options:
  A) disguise
  B) discern
  C) digest
  D) disturb
  E) distort
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 5: Choose the option opposite in meaning to the underlined word(s).The witness averred that had seen Dosun at the scene of the crime? Options:
  A) argued
  B) confirmed
  C) denied
  D) affirmed
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 6:

  Complete each of the following sentences by choosing the option that most suitably fills the space;

  He had just entered the office _____ the telephone rang

  Options:
  A) as
  B) before
  C) since
  D) when
  E) until
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 7:

  So far I have been speaking of science in its universality, viewed from the perspective of the world at large. For the context of our own country and our sister developing countries, many of the factors mentioned earlier are not very important. For example, pollution, deterioration of the environment and population explosion are not yet serious problems for us in this country.

  Let me now turn to a more specific area, namely the question of scientific choice for developing countries. There is no doubt that role which science s and technology have played in the upliftment of the material and economic well-being of the developed nation will, and does, influence the criteria that the Third World nations must choose in order to establish their science policies and priorities.

  But the criteria to be used by this nation do not have the same as those which have brought the developed countries to their present stage of evolution. For while human beings have the same problems, their solutions, to be meaningful will have to be sought within some relevant frame of reference, such as the available resources and expertise, social values, place and time in the historical scale.

  frame of reference' in this passage (line 11 means) Options:
  A) point of information
  B) range of authority
  C) economic pattern
  D) contex of situation
  E) wholesome choice
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 8:

  In question below fill the gap with the appropriate option:

  Three quarters of the Physics class _____ dramatically

  Options:
  A) improve
  B) improves
  C) are improving
  D) is improving
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 9: From the words lettered A to D, choose the word that has the same consonant sounds as the one represented by the letters underlined.dice Options:
  A) shame
  B) cue
  C) chair
  D) loss
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 10:

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

  Governing a country is not always as straightforward as people sometimes imagine.

  Options:
  A) complicated
  B) troublesome
  C) untoward
  D) irksome
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  The correct answer is A .