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

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• Question 1281:

  choose the option nearly opposite in meaning to the word(s) underlined

  The incumbent president conceded defeat before the final result was announced.

  Options:
  A) accepted
  B) rejected
  C) opposed
  D) challenged
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1282:

  Questions below are based on Bolaji Abdullahi's "Sweet Sixteen"

  The novelist noted that stereoscopic people should be

  Options:
  A) condemned for their bad thinking
  B) encouraged by admonition
  C) corrected of their bad thinking
  D) challenged to take up social responsibilities
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1283: Choose the word/expression which best completes each sentence :The candidate looked _____ after finishing the examination Options:
  A) unhappily
  B) lazily
  C) wonderfully
  D) angrily
  E) unhappy
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  The correct answer is E .
• Question 1284:

  Choose the correct word to fill the space in the following sentences:

  The meeting starts _____ two o'clock. Please be punctual

  Options:
  A) about
  B) in
  C) on
  D) at
  E) around
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1285:

  Answer the following question below and choose the option that best completes the gap(s):

  She was_______the verge of tears.

  Options:
  A) at
  B) on
  C) by
  D) with
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1286:

  Choose the most appropriate option for each group for questionsAlice, a small fragile-looking Ugandan mother, is dying of AIDS. She lives with her son and daughter in a tin-roofed shack on the .....1... of Kampala. When her husband died of AIDS in 1987, Alice discovered she was HIV positive. Frequent ...2..... of sickness forced her to give up her embroidery job. She was so depressed that she just wanted to eat. ....3.... by a neighbour, the mobile care unit from Nsambya hospital went to her home. They convinced her to start taking proper ..4....... After three months of ....5.... treatment, she regained her will to live. The AIDS time bomb .....6... on relentlessly. The World Health Organization ....7.... that 1.8 million Ugandans are HIV positive, nearly one in eight of the total population. The Ugandan AIDS Commission set up by President Museveni ..8...... the spread of the disease. However, under-porting and the lack of post-mortem and ...9..... makes it impossible to establish exact figures. No one ....10.... that it is a disaster far worse than the years of civil war.

   

  When her husband died of AIDS in 1987, Alice discovered she was HIV positive. Frequent ...2..... of sickness forced her to give up her embroidery job.

  Options:
  A) sufferings
  B) Happenings
  C) Rounds
  D) Bouts
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1287:

  This question is from the novel 'The Last Days at Forcados High school'.

  In three words, describe the principal (Mr. Mallum) as described in the novel.

  Options:
  A) small, wiry and spoke through his nose
  B) fat, smooth-cheeked and loved his job
  C) tall, good- looking and funny
  D) wicked, ugly and tall.
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1288:

  Read each passage carefully and answer the questions that follow it

  All over the world till lately, and in most of the world still today, mankind has been following the course of nature, that is to say, it has been breeding up to the maximum. To let nature take her extravagant course in the reproduction of the human race may have made sense in an age in which we were also letting her take her course in decimating mankind by the casualties of war, pestilence and famine. Being human, we have at last revolted against that senseless waste. We started to impose on nature’s heartless play a humane new order of our own. But, when once man has begun to interfere with nature, he cannot afford to stop half way. We cannot, with impunity, cut down the death-rate and at the same time allow the birth-rate to go on taking nature’s course. we must consciously try to establish an equilibrium or, sooner or later, famine will stalk abroad again

  'humane' as used in the passage means Options:
  A) sensible
  B) wise
  C) human
  D) benevolent
  E) thorough
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1289:

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

  The visitor was very uncomfortable because of his _____ nose?

  Options:
  A) runny
  B) running
  C) watery
  D) flowing
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1290: Fill each of the gap with the appropriate option from the list following the the gap.The baby was rather _____ than i could bear? Options:
  A) much more troublesome
  B) much too troublesome
  C) so much troublesome
  D) very much troublesome
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  The correct answer is A .