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

English is the study of the English language. The goal is to improve communication skills by practicing listening, speaking, reading, writing, and understanding language rules like pronunciation, vocabulary, and grammar.

• Question 1301:

  The importance of the code theory in education lies in the fact that the school system requires the use of an elaborated code but not all students have access to it. The importance of this theory to sociology lies in the fact that the differential access to the elaborated code does not occur randomly but rather is controlled by the class system. Lower working-class urban children tend to have a restricted code. Middle-class children possess both a restricted and an elaborated code. The two groups enter into different types of relationship and learn to express themselves in different ways through language. They do not use language for the same functions, some of which it seems are necessary for the school situation. When the lower working-class child is expected implicity to exploit language for functions, he normally does not express verbally a discontinuity is created between his home and his school environment. He has learned to verbalize certain range of meanings in his home and when he enters school, another range of meaning is required. There is then a very subtle but nonetheless very real, sense in which what is taught is personally irrelevant for this child. The school system does not talk to him. Middle class children possessing both codes experience no such discontinuity. They can use languages for these functions required by the school.

  It can be assumed reasonably that language has Options:
  A) only one code
  B) two codes
  C) three codes
  D) three codes,two used for education
  E) more than three codes but only two used for education
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1302:

  In the question below, choose the expression or words which best completes each sentence:

  I can't afford another loan, i have _____ money left in my account

  Options:
  A) a few
  B) a little
  C) little
  D) few
  E) some
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1303:

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

  The telephone _____ in the nineteenth century and is now used in most countries in the world

  Options:
  A) had been invented
  B) was invented
  C) would have been invented
  D) has been invented
  E) was being invented
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1304: Choose from the options opposite in meaning to the word underlined.It is surprising that this politician has now turned renegade? Options:
  A) milliant
  B) corrupt
  C) loyal
  D) quiet
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1305:

  Fill the blank spaces with the most appropriate of options A-E:

  She used to be very untidy but she has grown _____ it now

  Options:
  A) out of
  B) from
  C) without
  D) away with
  E) by
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1306: This question is based on the novel, The Life Changer.

  Which of the following character dies while giving birth to her son?

  Options:
  A) Salma
  B) Talle's mother
  C) Ada
  D) Tomiwa
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1307: Fill the each gap with the most appropriate option from the list option from the list provided.A wide range of options _____ made available to the political parties during the recently concluded elections? Options:
  A) are
  B) were
  C) was
  D) is
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1308:

  These two factors the altitude and the weather, tend separately and together to defeat the climber. The height weakens, slows him down; it forces him to spend days and nights in the courses of his assault on the summit; the weather, besides adding to the demand of his energy and moral fortitude, conspires to deny him the time he needs to complete his mission. Whereas in lower mountains and on easy ground the weather may be no more than a handicap, in the high Himalayas it is decisive, regardless of terrain.

  The deduction to be drawn from these two factors is was clear enough. We must either so fortify ourselves that we could continue, without detriment, to live and have our being above the limit of natural acclimatization, or, better still, we must solve the problem of speed. It was desirable; in fact, that we must meet both these requirements and thus give to those chosen to attempt the summit and to their supporting teams some measures of insurance against the vagaries of the weather, for safety in mountain climbing is as much a matter of swiftness as of sureness of foot. Either or both could be achieved only by the administration of oxygen in sufficient quantities to make up for the deficiency in the air, and for the duration of the upward journey above the limit of successful acclimatization

  Which ONE of the following was NOT a reason for using oxygen? Options:
  A) it gave them psychologicl encouragement
  B) it fortified them to live above the limit of natural acclimatization
  C) it protects them against the unexpected changes of the weather
  D) it quickens their journey to the summit
  E) it helps them to survive the worst effects of the weather
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1309:

  Choose the option that best fills the gap.

  The trader complained that he _____ robbed.

  Options:
  A) had been
  B) has been
  C) was being
  D) is being
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1310: Choose the option that best completes the gap(S).The Secretary-General was shocked at the number of _____ ? Options:
  A) child's soildiers
  B) childish soldiers
  C) children soldiers
  D) child soldiers
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  The correct answer is D .