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

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• Question 1321:

  Setting up a news paper involves a lot of preparations. The __11__ has to employ a lot of people. Other people working with him are cartographers, editors, typesetters, readers, who work in various ways to produce the text of the newspaper, __12__, who go out and collect story and items of news, and __13__, who specialize in one kind of topic. Another important person who works closely with the Editor-in-Chief is the __14__, who has to choose the most important stories__15__ go through stories sent to them and make necessary adjustments.

  The Editor-in-Chief could determine for instance, whether a particular journalist should write articles daily or weekly in a particular column. Such a journalist is known as __16__. The editorials of the news paper will be coordinated by __17__. The publisher could decide to establish __18__ which would be on sale weekly, fortnightly, or monthly,__19__ the eyes catching, screaming headlines and captions of newspapers on sale everyday from the __20__.

  Choose the most appropriate option for the gap labelled 18. Options:
  A) a gazetteer
  B) an article
  C) a column
  D) a magazine
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1322:

  From the alternatives provided in the question below select the one which most appropriately completes the sentence:

  The young man looked carefully at the long document, but he couldn't make _____ what it meant.

  Options:
  A) up
  B) out
  C) off
  D) through
  E) do
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1323:

  I am always amazed when I hear people saying that sport creates goodwill among nations and that if only the common people of the world could meet one another at football or squash, they would have no inclination to meet on the battle field. Even if one didn’t know from concrete example (the 1936 Olympic games, for instance) that international sporting contests lead to orgies of hatred, one could deduce it from general principals.

  Nearly all the sports practiced nowadays are competitive. You play to win, and the game has little meaning. Unless you do your utmost to win. On the village green, where you pick up sides and not feeling of local patriotism is involved, it is possible to play simple for fun of it and exercise, but as soon as the question of prestige arises, as soon as you feel that you and some larger unit will be disgraced if you lose, the most savage combative instincts are aroused. Anyone who has played even in a school football match knows this. At the international level, sport is frankly a mimic warfare. But the significant thing is not the behaviour of the players but the attitude of the spectators and behind the spectators are the nations who work themselves into furies over these absurd contests and seriously believe at any rate for short period that running, jumping and kicking a ball are tests of national virtue.

  Even a leisurely game demanding grace rather than strength can cause much ill-will. Football, a game in which everyone gets hurt and every nation has its own style or play is far worse. Worst of all is boxing. One of the most horrible sights in the world is a fight between white and coloured boxers before a mixed audience

  Boxing is regarded as the worst game in the passage because Options:
  A) of the behaviour of the boxers themselves
  B) of the amount of ill-will that can be generated among spectators of different races
  C) of the ill-will that can be generated by a game that demands strength from the competitors
  D) is a game in which both players get hurt rather badly
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1324:
  A British electronics manufacturer has built a factory in which quartz crystals can be grown in 3 weeks. The natural growth of quartz takes 3 million years, and very often the crystals are not sufficiently pure to satisfy the precise needs of science. However, the manufactured crystals are exceptionally pure, and this is important because quartz, in transistors is used in an astonishing number of devices where constant accuracy is required: radio and television transmitters and receivers, space satellites and computers are familiar examples. In order to make artificial quartz, very small pieces of the natural crystal imported from Brazil are placed in long, narrow, steel cylinders. A high pressure and a high temperature are maintained within the cylinders for 3 weeks, and at the end of this the small fragments have grown to the required weight of one pound. The quartz is then ready to be made into the tiny transistors that have replaced the much larger thermionic valves.
  Transistors have Options:
  A) helped to rodce quartz
  B) made radio and television inaccessible to the working populace
  C) made transmitters and receivers smaller and lighter
  D) retarded progress in electronics
  E) made transmitters and receivers bigger and heavier
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1325:

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

  Victor will not attend the dinner party tonight; he is afraid of his own shadow

  Options:
  A) not in the mood
  B) attending another party
  C) scared of imaginary things
  D) unhappy with is assigned role
  E) unable to forget his fears
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1326:

  choose the option that best answers the question from the options lettered A-D

  He SLAPPED the teacher.

  Options:
  A) Did he greet the teacher?
  B) Did the teacher flog him?
  C) Did he slap the nurse?
  D) Did he praise the principal?
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1327:

  Choose the option that has the same consonant sound as the one represented by the letter(s) underlined.

  chalet?

  Options:
  A) chairman
  B) college
  C) champagne
  D) chemical
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1328:

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

  He ______ the picture on the table?

  Options:
  A) laid
  B) lay
  C) lied
  D) lain
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1329:

  Choose the option that best conveys the meaning of the underlined portion in the following sentence;

  The two sprinters were running neck and neck

  Options:
  A) exactly level
  B) very slowly
  C) very fast
  D) with their necks together
  E) together
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1330:

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

  Chinyere has not really described the Cabinet as irresponsible; she only _____ it in her speech.

  Options:
  A) allude to
  B) implied
  C) applied
  D) suggested
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  The correct answer is A .