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

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• Question 1001:

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

  For beating _____ his coursemate, Agbji was _____ from the university?

  Options:
  A) up / ruticated
  B) on / expelled
  C) at / removed
  D) away / sent out
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1002:

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

  If only we _____ we could have overcome the difficulty

  Options:
  A) had persevered
  B) have persevered
  C) had persevere
  D) persevered
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1003:

  Fill in the gap with the most appropriate option from the list provided?

  The group never felt strong enough to act in the open _____ hostility was the hallmark of their resistance?

  Options:
  A) covert
  B) overt
  C) vicious
  D) erratic
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1004: Choose the option that best completes the gap(s).All God's prophets were given the great _____ to preach salvation to people? Options:
  A) commision
  B) commition
  C) comision
  D) commission
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1005:

  For this question, choose the option nearest in meaning to the word or phrase in italics:

  _______ rich has its own problem.

  Options:
  A) Being
  B) Been
  C) On being
  D) On been
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1006:

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

  Garba always puts his shoulder to the wheel

  Options:
  A) sits with his shoulder straight when driving
  B) works energetically at the task in hand
  C) performs tasks assigned him grudgingly
  D) holds the steering wheel firmly when he is driving
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1007: Choose the most appropriate stress pattern from the options. the stressed syllables are written in capital letters.dedication Options:
  A) dediCAtion
  B) DEdication
  C) dedicaTION
  D) DeDIcation
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1008:

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

  Sixty percent of the unskilled workers _____ yearly by the company?

  Options:
  A) are retain
  B) is retained
  C) were retained
  D) are retained
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1009:

  read each passage and answer the question that follow

  The great herald of things to come was Ezekiel, not only in the sense that he predicted the future, but also became in the manner and content of his prophetic ministry, he foreshadowed many of the important religious developments, which were characteristics of the age after the Exile.

  He, rather than Ezra, was the founder of Judaism. He not only pointed forward; but as well shall see, he represented some of the great elements in Israel’s religious past.

  The book which bears his name is outwardly impressive in its orderliness and symmetry and in the careful chronologic al arrangement of its contents. It purports to present the record of prophecies uttered in the Babylonian Exile between 593 and 571 B.C and for long this was not seriously questioned. Even when other prophetic books have been dissected and assigned to sundry authors and editors, this book continued to be regarded by most scholars as having come into its entirety from Ezekiel. Then came a period in which many extreme theories were advanced , assigning much of it to other hands or presupposing complicated processes of editorial revision, or dating the book to a period much later than the Babylonian Exile, or maintaining that Ezekiel’s ministry was not exercised in Babylonia but in Palestine, or at least was begun there. Such theories have been subjected to damaging criticism and are now somewhat discredited. The account of Ezekiel’s ministry and teaching is based on the view that he lived and worked among the exile in Babylonia, at the period indicated, and the bulk of the material in the book comes from him, though, like other prophetic collections, it owes much in its complication, arrangement and transmission to prophetic disciple

  The account of Ezikiel's Ministry was Options:
  A) compiled with the collaboration of others
  B) his and his alone
  C) shared by many writers
  D) partly composed by him and partly by Ezra
  E) produced as a result of God's Inspiration
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1010:

  Choose the option that has same vowel sound as the one represented by the letter (s) underlined.

  laud

  Options:
  A) lathe
  B) core
  C) lavatory
  D) loud
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  The correct answer is B .