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

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• Question 121: Choose the option opposite in meaning to the underlined word(s).In the latter part of his life, the famous soldier showed signs of youthfulness?
  Options:
  A) energy
  B) senility
  C) bravery
  D) vitality
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 122:

  One day, Alan, a friend of mine, who likes country life, was fishing in a river, when he caught a trout. He tried to put fish in but it slipped off the hook, flew over his head and landed in a field behind him.

  Alan put down his rod, went through the gate and started searching for his trout. Some people, obviously from the city were having a picnic in the field. One of the men shouted. ‘What on earth are you doing? Thinking that it was a silly question because they could see how hews dressed, Alan replied ‘Fishing’.

  ‘Don’t be silly, the fish are down in the river’, answered the man, ‘Fish don’t live fields! He turned to his friends, laughing, thinking that he had made a good joke.

  Oh, but they do, ‘said Alan, They jump out of the river to look for flies and I catch them with my hands. At that moment he found his trout in the grass and picked it up and showed it to the picnickers. He put it in his basket and bent down, as if he was hunting for another one. The picnickers, no longer laughing, spent the rest of the day searching the field.

  Why did the fish land in the field? Options:
  A) it had wings
  B) it was a flying fish
  C) it was looking for food
  D) Alan pulled too hard
  E) it fell off the hook
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  The correct answer is E .
• Question 123: According to the novel, Efua was in Forcados High School because Options:
  A) her stepfather was a board member
  B) of her former principal's recommendation
  C) the school needed her mother's support
  D) of aunt Moni's gift to the school
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 124:

  Choose the option that best fills the gap.

  The officer was compelled to _____ the suspect’s car.

  Options:
  A) seize
  B) cease
  C) sieze
  D) sease
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 125:

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

  After the team had concede two goals, their enthusiasm _____

  Options:
  A) was beginning to wane
  B) was waning
  C) began to wane
  D) had begun to wane
  E) had ben waning
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 126:

  In the question below choose the option nearest in meaning to the underlined word or phrase:

  If people don't want to play the game according to the rule, that is their business

  Options:
  A) their business will suffer
  B) it is not their fault
  C) they should blame others for it
  D) other people will take over their business
  E) they will have themselves to blame
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  The correct answer is E .
• Question 127:

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

  The boy was born before his parents actually got married and so the court has declared him _____

  Options:
  A) illegal
  B) illegitimate
  C) illicit
  D) unlawful
  E) untenable
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 128:
  The passage below has gaps numbered 6 to 15. Immediately following each gap are provided. Choose the most appropriate option for each gap.

  Before any detailed analysis begins, the first thing to do with the data is to check through the field record book and questionnaires for any……..6……[A. records B. events C. odds D. mistakes], inconsistencies and incompleteness. In some cases, it may be possible to correct any discovered shortcomings. When it is possible to carry out these……..7……[A. plans B. possibilities C. corrections D. expectations].

  In most scientific……8…..[A. experiment B. data C. conclusion D. questionnaires] such revisits are clearly impossible. This is true of many surveys too. A road traffic survey…….9……[A. conducted B. experimented C. classified D. precoded] to find out the amount and frequency of daily traffic between two towns cannot be expected to be……..10…..[A. reproducible B. undertaken C. observed D. produced]. There is no way of going back to check whether the number of vehicles reported for any particular hour is correct or not. With open-ended questions the……11…..[A. methods B. responses C. errors D. conclusion] have to be classified into relatively small number of groups. The process of classifying answers and of sometimes identifying them by number and letter is called…….12…….[A. recording B. recoding C. encoding D. coding]. When closed-ended questions are used, it is possible to code all the possible answers before they are actually received. This is called……..13…..[A. precoding B. coding C. encoding D. recoding]. What is done, a check through the answers for proper classification, numbering and lettering is still called for at this stage. This whole process of checking through questionnaires and notebooks is called……14…..[A. editing B. posting C. listing D. auditing]. Collected data will eventually have to be used in drawing……15…..[A. references B. examples C. conclusions D. analogies] and writing a report about the population from which it came.

  In question number 13 above, choose the best option from the letters A-D that best completes the gab. Options:
  A) precoding
  B) coding
  C) encoding
  D) recoding
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 129:

  The word in capital letters has the emphatic stress. Choose the option that best fits the expression in the sentence.

  He travelled ONLY 20 kilometres before his car stopped?

  Options:
  A) Did he travel only 20 kilometres after his car stopped?
  B) Did he travel exactly 20 kilometres before his car stopped?
  C) Did you walk only 20 kilometres before the vehicle stopped?
  D) Did he travel more than 20 kilometres before his car stopped?
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 130:

  Choose the best option to fill the gaps in the following sentences:

  You should make an _____ to improve the situation

  Options:
  A) effect
  B) efficiency
  C) effectiveness
  D) effort
  E) effectualness
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  The correct answer is D .