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

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• Question 1231:

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

  My boss is usually a charming man but _____ he can be very irritable.

  Options:
  A) atimes
  B) at times
  C) those times
  D) with times
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1232: Choose the option that best completes the gap(S).I was often angry _____ Oche since he differed _____ me often? Options:
  A) with / to
  B) about / with
  C) against / from
  D) with / with
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1233:

  It may be argued that museums as an institution and an agency for transmitting cultural heritage are an artificial creature, so far as objects are removed from their natural or proper environments and put into museums which are a different environment altogether. However, it seems that museums themselves have come to be accepted and recognized as the best equipped institutions devised by man for the assemblage of cultural objects and their presentation and preservation for the present and future generations.

  The artificial character of museums is however being gradually transformed into a cultural reality. Thus, just as one goes to the theatre for plays and other performing arts; the mosque, the church or the shrine for worship; the library for the printed word; today, it is to the museums one goes to see evidence of man’s material outfit. For, no other institution or place so readily comes to mind as museums do when evidence of material culture is sought. Herein lies the importance of museums as cultural institutions and an agency for transmitting culture.

  Which of the following phrases in the passage does NOT express the artificial character of museums? Options:
  A) Removed from
  B) For transmitting
  C) put into
  D) Devised by
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1234:

  Primitive man was probably more concerned with fire as a source of warmth and as a means of cooking food than as a source of light. Before the discovered less laborious ways of making fire, he had to preserve it and whenever he went on a journey he carried a firebrand with him. He discovered that the firebrand, from which the torch may well have developed, could be used for illumination was probably incidental to the primary purpose of preserving a flame.

  Lamps too probably developed by accident. Early man may had his first conception of a lamp while watching a twing or fibre burning in the molten fat dropped from roasting carcass. All he had to do was to fashion a vessel to contain fat and float a lighted reed in it. Such lamps which were made of hollow stones or sea-shells have persisted in identical form up to quite recent times.

  Primitive man was least concerned with fire as a Options:
  A) means of cooking
  B) source of warmth
  C) source of light
  D) means of travelling
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1235:

  In each of this question choose the option opposite in meaning to the word or phrase underlined:

  The man's mordant wit is apparent to the entire village.

  Options:
  A) scathing
  B) caustic
  C) withering
  D) kind
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1236:

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

  If anyone greets you, it is only polite to return _____ greeting.

  Options:
  A) your
  B) theone's
  C) anyone's
  D) one's
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1237:

  Choose the expression or word which best complete each sentences:

  This writer analyses the evil society _____

  Options:
  A) so masterly
  B) very masterly
  C) in such a masterly way
  D) in a masterly way
  E) in so masterly a way
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1238:

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

  The policeman was asked to investigate the matter

  Options:
  A) ask about
  B) forget about
  C) examine
  D) inquire about
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1239:

  Select the option that best explain the information conveyed in the sentence:

  The painting was beautifully faked.

  Options:
  A) The painting was a good deceptive replica
  B) The painting was well-framed and displayed
  C) The painting was deceptively decorated
  D) The painting was carefully designed
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1240:

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

  His horrible high-pitched laugh _____ on my nerves

  Options:
  A) jags
  B) jabs
  C) jams
  D) jars
  E) jeers
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  The correct answer is D .