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

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• Question 1101:

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

  The minister can't come today because he has _____ engagement?

  Options:
  A) a former
  B) a preceding
  C) a prior
  D) an advance
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1102:

  Answer the following question below , the word in capital letters has the emphatic stress. Choose the option to which the given sentence relates.

  The ACCOUNTANT paid the workers' July salary in September.

  Options:
  A) when were the workers paid?
  B) did the cashier pay the workers' salary in September
  C) workers received their july salary in September
  D) the September salary was paid in July?
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1103: Select the option that best explains the information conveyed in the sentence.If visited England, I might go to Manchester City? Options:
  A) When I go to England , I could go to Manchester City
  B) WheneverI visit England, I must go to Manchester City
  C) I did not go to England and could not go to Manchester
  D) I could not visit Manchester City because I did not want to go to England
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1104:

  Fill in the blank spaces in the following sentences making use of the best of the five options:

  He looked _____ everyone in authority as an enemy

  Options:
  A) on
  B) at
  C) in
  D) about
  E) against
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1105:

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

  Mary is jealous of her sister’s success.

  Options:
  A) Suspicious
  B) Bitter
  C) Careful
  D) Mindful
  E) Envious
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  The correct answer is E .
• Question 1106:

  Boxing is sometimes called' the noble art of self defence'. According to some people, boxing appeals to the lowest instincts in the ...11... who have come to watch blood flow and their fellow human suffer Boxers who are medically fit appear in the ...12... The referee sometimes allows the...13... to go on for long so that one of the ...14... is reduced to a human punch bag.It may happen that the boxers are not well ...15... one being much stronger than the other, as a result of which he so much...16... his opponent that he wins ...17... Many boxers have suffered permanent brain...18... in the ...19... of punches that have been thrown at them during their ...20...

  Choose the most appropriate option for the gap labelled [...15...] above. Options:
  A) levelled
  B) groomed
  C) sparred
  D) staged
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1107: Fill each gap with the most appropriate option from the lists provided.If one perseveres _____ will surely succeed? Options:
  A) she
  B) one
  C) he
  D) they
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1108:

  No journey can be quite soothing as a voyage on the Nile from Cairo to Philae. Day after day as you sails upstream nothing in the general pattern changes. Tonight’s incredibly bright stars are the same as last night’s and tomorrow’s. Each new bend in the river discloses the same buffalo circling his waterwheel, the same pigeon-lofts on the houses, the same dark Egyptian faces swathed in white.

  The banks are surprisingly green, a patchwork of rice fields and sugarcane, of palms and eucalyptus, and then beyond them, like a frame set around a picture; one sees the desert and the hills. There is always s a movement somewhere, but it is of a gentle, ambulatory, kind and one feels oneself going along in a rhythm with the processions of camels and donkeys on the bank, and the feluccas gliding by, and the buffalo, released at last from his wheel, sliding to the blessed coolness of the water in the evening. Occasionally a whiff of humanity comes out from the mud-hut villages on the shore, and it contains traces of the smoke of cooking forest, of dried cow-dung and of Turkish coffee, of some sweet and heavy scent, jasmine perhaps, and of water sprinkled on the dust. It is not unpleasant.

  Lying on deck, one idly observes the flight of birds, one dream one lets the hours go by, and nothing can be more satisfying than the sight of the brown pillars of a ruined temple that has been standing alone on the edge of the desert for the last two thousand years. This is the past joining the present in a comfortably deceptive glow, and the traveller, like a spectator in a theater, remains detached from the both, he would not for the world live in the dust and squalor of these villages he finds so picturesque, and the ancient ruins he has come to see do not really evoke the early civilization of the Egyptians.

  The presence of the people on the shore Options:
  A) is often apparent
  B) becomes apparent when they come out of their hut
  C) reminds the traveller of their humanity
  D) is indicated by the smells from the villages
  E) prevents the traveller from feeling lonely
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1109: Fill each of the gap with the appropriate option from the list following the the gap.The rebels will soon fight back. We have been informed _____their _____ ? Options:
  A) of / predicament
  B) about / indulgence
  C) on / rearmament
  D) as for / advancement
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1110:

  Choose the appropriate stress pattern from the options. The syllables are written in capital letters.

  photography?

  Options:
  A) phoTOgraphy
  B) PHOtography
  C) photoGRAphy
  D) photograPHY
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  The correct answer is A .