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

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• Question 1: Choose the option that has the same stress pattern as the given word.Refuse (noun) Options:
  A) reform
  B) intact
  C) obscure
  D) phantom
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 2:

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

  The trader _____ his wares at the trade fair?

  Options:
  A) exhibited
  B) displayed
  C) spread
  D) demonstrated
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 3:

  The word in capital letters has the emphatic stress. Choose the option to which the given sentence relates.

  Taiwo SAILED to London.

  Options:
  A) Did Taiwo fly to London?
  B) Did Taiwo sail to Brazil?
  C) Did Taiwo sail to London
  D) Where did Taiwo sail to?
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 4:

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

  The government has provided new _____ for the local government polls

  Options:
  A) guard lines
  B) guide lines
  C) guardlines
  D) guidelines
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 5:

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

  Ali plays _____ violin with remarkable skill?

  Options:
  A) a
  B) the
  C) their
  D) some
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 6:

  Choose the word(s) or phrase(s) which best fill(s) the gap.

  If it had rained, we would have had to postpone the concert. It didn't rain, so ____________.

  Options:
  A) we won't have to
  B) we would have had to
  C) we wouldn't have to
  D) we didn't have to
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 7:

  Choose the option that best conveys the meaning of the underlined portion in the following sentence;

  There is some obvious symmetry in the whole presentation

  Options:
  A) confusion
  B) hesitation
  C) excitement
  D) orderliness
  E) dissatisfaction
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 8:

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

  When the soldiers saw that resistance was _____ they stopped fighting?

  Options:
  A) inadequate
  B) inefficient
  C) futile
  D) successful
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 9:

  In the question below choose the most appropriate option nearest in meaning to the word(s) or phrase(s) underlined:

  Ator led a dog's life for twenty years he stayed in the United Kingdom

  Options:
  A) lived a dirty life
  B) was promiscuous
  C) was domesticated
  D) led an unhappy and troubled life
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 10:

  Choose the option nearest in meaning to the underlined word.

  The attempt to count the population was largely successful?

  Options:
  A) mostly
  B) completely
  C) hardly
  D) totally
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  The correct answer is A .