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

English is the study of the English language. The goal is to improve communication skills by practicing listening, speaking, reading, writing, and understanding language rules like pronunciation, vocabulary, and grammar.

• Question 1:

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

  Jane and Jarawa love …. very much.

  Options:
  A) Themselves
  B) Each other
  C) One another
  D) Theirselves
  E) Each others
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 2:

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

  The development is to be carried to the _____ level?

  Options:
  A) grass root
  B) grassroot
  C) grassroots
  D) grass-root
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 3:

  Choose the option that best completes the gap(s).

  The federal Government has _____ child trafficking.

  Options:
  A) postulated
  B) projected
  C) prescribed
  D) proscribed
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 4:

  Like all reptiles, snakes are cold blooded, or more correctly, ectothermic - they cannot produce their own body heat; instead, they rely on the sun to heat their bodies. Because they do not rely on energy from food to generate body heat, snakes can survive on an extremely meager diet. some wait for months between successive meals, and a few survive by eating a large meal just once or twice a year. When they do eat, snakes swallow their prey whole rather than biting off small piece. Many snakes have specialized jaws that enable them to swallow animals that are far larger than their own heads. Although uncommon, some snakes, such as the African rock python, have been observed eating animals as large as an antelope or a small cow.

  With over two thousand five hundred species belonging to more than ten families, snakes are a large and successful groups. They owe much of this success to their versatility - snakes occupy habitat ranging from underground burrows to the top of the tree, to ocean depths as great as one hundred and fifty meters. They are found on every continent except Antarctica, and although they are most abundant in tropical areas, many survive in regions marked by extreme cold. The only places without snakes are parts of the polar regions and isolated islands, such as the Republic of Ireland and New-Zealand as opposed to places in Nigeria like Plateau and Gombe States in the Northern part where there is a large population of snakes.

  A suitable title for this passage is Options:
  A) Species of snakes in Nigeria ans Other lands
  B) Feeding Habits of Snakes
  C) Some Characteristics of Snakes
  D) Snakes as legless, Cold-blooded reptiles
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 5: Choose from the options nearest in meaning to the word underlined.The coalescence of the groups created additional problems? Options:
  A) proscription
  B) fighting
  C) disbandments
  D) union
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 6:

  Choose the option that complete the gap(s).

  Making a phone call instead of paying a visit represents a _______trend?

  Options:
  A) sudden new major social
  B) new social sudden major
  C) new sudden major social
  D) sudden social new major
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 7: Fill each gap with the most appropriate option from the lists provided.The highly appreciative audience clapped _____. hands and showered ______ on the lecturer? Options:
  A) their /encomiums
  B) its / encomiums
  C) their / invectives
  D) its / invectives
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 8:

  Answer the following question below and choose the option nearest in meaning to the underlined word or phrase in.

  The student's union leader delivered his speech extempore

  Options:
  A) out-of -hand
  B) off the cuff
  C) accurately
  D) courageously
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 9:

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

  The president of the union _____ for the airport by the time the riot started?

  Options:
  A) would have left
  B) is about leaving
  C) was leaving
  D) has left
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 10:

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

  Some drugs have a deleterious effect on a child's development.

  Options:
  A) debilitating
  B) helpful
  C) harmful
  D) healing
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  The correct answer is C .