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

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• Question 1021:

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

  The teacher invited Akpan and _____ to his office

  Options:
  A) myself
  B) me
  C) i
  D) himself
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1022:

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

  During demonstration, the mobile police were instructed to break _____ the students defence line

  Options:
  A) off
  B) open
  C) through
  D) down
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1023:

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

  We have done three quarters of the journey already; we _____ as well see the end of it

  Options:
  A) can
  B) might
  C) could
  D) may
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1024:

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

  The Universities has offered temporary accommodation for staff

  Options:
  A) popular
  B) permanent
  C) recognized
  D) regular
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1025: There was a loud bang _____ we thought it was the television, but it wasn't Options:
  A) at last
  B) at first
  C) at least
  D) at the moment
  E) at present
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1026: Fill each of the gap with the appropriate option from the list following the the gap.Soyinka's masterful _____of the atmosphere of his childhood helped to make his book, Ake, an ought success? Options:
  A) envocation
  B) invocation
  C) convocation
  D) revocation
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1027:

  Choose the word or phrase from options A - E which has the nearest in meaning to the underlined word or words in each sentences:

  My mother has refused to come to live in Lagos because she prefers the tranquil life in the village to the hurly burly of the city.

  Options:
  A) free
  B) properous
  C) peaceful
  D) decent
  E) happy
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1028:

  When I set out for London, little did I suspect that I was not on a journey to God’s own city where harmony reigned supreme. So used to the frenzied life of Lagos was I that I had come to associate that city with everything that was chaotic, and there was no doubt in my mind that Lagos was one giant symbol of our backwardness. As the plane taxied its way out of the tarmac of our national airport, of our national airport, I heaved a sigh of relief, not so much because I was leaving my own country as that I was being relieved of the tension that had possessed me during those tense hours in the untidy lounge. I had felt so uneasy, my thoughts racing from one uncertainty to another. But at least I was air-borne, moving away from the whole uncertainty, from the whole load of fear towards a place which I supposed would be El Dorado.

  Everything that happened in the plane passed through my eyes like pictures on the screen. The white air hostess who instructed me on how to use the safety belt was an angel, what with her beauty, her pretty blue dress, and her ever-smiling face. The same lady of the air served me snacks and supper. Another angel, whose queenly voice through an invisible public address system, dished out occasional information on the progress of our journey. I had never felt so relaxed, and my jolted heartbeats each time the plane took what appeared like a sudden brief descent, did not matter. When eventually we were set for landing, the anxiety that came over me was almost thrilling. What was the wonderland going to be like? So overwhelmed was I that I almost lost consciousness of what happened thereafter.

  But I would never forget the shock that greeted me when we arrived in the tube station and boarded a train to behold the sea of white faces and furtive glances from apparently indifferent co-passengers. I believe that the nostalgic feeling for Lagos which later became part of my life all my days in London began at a point.

  Before the writer left Lagos, he believed London was Options:
  A) Very neat place
  B) A very peaceful place
  C) Situated in paradise
  D) Noiseless
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1029: Select the option that best explains the information conveyed in the sentence.The men were not pawns in someone else's political game? Options:
  A) The action they executed was their idea
  B) The men used someone else's plan
  C) They were used by someone's political game
  D) They loved playing political games
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1030:

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

  I have been trying to locate you _____

  Options:
  A) since five days
  B) five days now
  C) since five days now
  D) for five days
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  The correct answer is D .