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

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• Question 111:

  Choose the option that rhymes with the given word.

  Boys

  Options:
  A) stays
  B) moist
  C) noise
  D) elbows
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 112:

  Complete each of the following sentences by choosing the option that most suitably fills the space;

  Although he is in all respects a poor student, he has managed to buy a tape recorder to improve his _____ of french

  Options:
  A) mastery
  B) mastering
  C) speaking
  D) ideas
  E) thinking
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 113:

  Choose the appropriate option to fill the gap in the following sentences:

  If Remi perform poorly in her forthcoming examination,then either her mother or i _____ to blame

  Options:
  A) must
  B) has
  C) will be
  D) are
  E) am
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  The correct answer is E .
• Question 114:

  In the question below choose the word or phrase which best fills the gap in each sentence:

  Journalists always collect and publish _____

  Options:
  A) informations
  B) an information
  C) some information
  D) information
  E) much unformation
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 115:

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

  Sibi _____ novels since she came home

  Options:
  A) is reading
  B) had been reading
  C) has read
  D) has been reading
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 116: In the question below choose the option nearest in meaning to the word(s) or phrase(s) Underlined: The news of his performance in the sessional examination has made Okechukwu crestfallen Options:
  A) highly irritable
  B) dejected
  C) elated
  D) pompous
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 117: Choose the option that best completes the gap(S).You, who _____ convicted, should appeal. Options:
  A) has been
  B) is
  C) was
  D) are
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 118:

   The emergence of a standard dialect produces the phenomenon known as ‘accent’ which is quite different from dialect. In the process of learning a foreign language, it is normal to transfer the patterns of an indigenous language to those of the foreign language. With time, however those of form and most of orthography and phonology gradually get eliminated. This is because these can easily be identified and corrected. They are easy to correct because they do not involve patterns of muscular movement. It is necessary to correct them because otherwise they could seriously impair intelligibility.

  With phonetic patterns, on the other hand, there is a great deal of intelligibility tolerance because muscular patterns are involved thus making correction difficult when observed. Besides, phonetic patterns do not impair intelligibility much. Hence the transference of phonetic habits from one language to another is both easier to tolerate and more difficult to avoid than transference at the lexico-grammatical level. It follows that a speaker who is learning a second dialect does so with an accent since the muscles of his speech organs would have crystallized in response to the phonetics of his native language which he learnt first. The speaker therefore speaks the second dialect with the phonetic features of his native dialect. The learning of a standard language is simply the learning of a second dialect- that which has been standardized.

  Members of a language community control at least two dialects and use both dialects in different situations. In the rural areas, the native dialect is used in most situations since there is less movement. Therefore, rural dwellers tend to be parochial and maintain the homogeneity of their dialect. In the urban community, on the other hand, there is more demand on the standard dialect than on the rural one. This is because people from different regions converge here. In order to ensure mutual intelligibility resulting from the pressure of communication, a great deal of demand is made on the standard dialect which now becomes the lingua frenca amongst them.

  Phonetic patterns allow for intelligibility tolerance because Options:
  A) they are involved and difficult to avoid
  B) they involve muscular patterns which later crystalize
  C) they give rise to the phenomenon of accent which is easy to tolerate
  D) transference is both difficult to avoid anf easy to tolerate
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 119:

  From the words lettered A to D, choose the word that has the same consonant sound(s):

  Strange

  Options:
  A) vague
  B) mirage
  C) logic
  D) legume
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 120:

  This questions is base on Jerry Agada's The successes:

  My boy, your future is bright, you can be anything you want to be ...

  The statement above was made because Ifenne had

  Options:
  A) been working for others to make profit
  B) been planning to excel
  C) proven himself faithful and committed
  D) purchased his first bus
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  The correct answer is C .