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

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• Question 1361:

  In each of the following questions, the main or primary stress is indicated by writing the syllable on which it occurs in capital letters.

  From the words lettered A to D, choose the one that has the correct stress

  Expenditure

  Options:
  A) EX-pen-di-ture
  B) ex-PEN-di-ture
  C) ex-pen-DI-ture
  D) ex-pen-di-TURE
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1362:

  In the question below choose the most appropriate option opposite in meaning to the word(s) underlined:

  The lecture was merely obfuscating the issue with his endless examples

  Options:
  A) complicating
  B) clarifying
  C) confusing
  D) summarizing
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1363:

  read each passage and answer the question that follow

  The great herald of things to come was Ezekiel, not only in the sense that he predicted the future, but also became in the manner and content of his prophetic ministry, he foreshadowed many of the important religious developments, which were characteristics of the age after the Exile.

  He, rather than Ezra, was the founder of Judaism. He not only pointed forward; but as well shall see, he represented some of the great elements in Israel’s religious past.

  The book which bears his name is outwardly impressive in its orderliness and symmetry and in the careful chronologic al arrangement of its contents. It purports to present the record of prophecies uttered in the Babylonian Exile between 593 and 571 B.C and for long this was not seriously questioned. Even when other prophetic books have been dissected and assigned to sundry authors and editors, this book continued to be regarded by most scholars as having come into its entirety from Ezekiel. Then came a period in which many extreme theories were advanced , assigning much of it to other hands or presupposing complicated processes of editorial revision, or dating the book to a period much later than the Babylonian Exile, or maintaining that Ezekiel’s ministry was not exercised in Babylonia but in Palestine, or at least was begun there. Such theories have been subjected to damaging criticism and are now somewhat discredited. The account of Ezekiel’s ministry and teaching is based on the view that he lived and worked among the exile in Babylonia, at the period indicated, and the bulk of the material in the book comes from him, though, like other prophetic collections, it owes much in its complication, arrangement and transmission to prophetic disciple

  The account of Ezikiel's Ministry was Options:
  A) compiled with the collaboration of others
  B) his and his alone
  C) shared by many writers
  D) partly composed by him and partly by Ezra
  E) produced as a result of God's Inspiration
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1364:

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

  The college authorities have _____ the students to end the strike

  Options:
  A) called for
  B) called on
  C) called
  D) called at
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1365:

  From the words lettered A to D, choose the word that rhymes with the given word.

  Breeze

  Options:
  A) stress
  B) chess
  C) free
  D) trees
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1366:

  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

  'to live and have our being above the limit of natural acclimatization' (line 7)means Options:
  A) to be protected from the effect of the weather
  B) to expect no protection from the bad weather
  C) to survive under unnatural weather conditions
  D) limit our natural desires to get acclimatized to the weather
  E) none of the above
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1367: Choose the option that best has the same consonant sound as the one represented by the letter(s) underlined?jugd?e? Options:
  A) measure
  B) general
  C) pressure
  D) grace
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1368:

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

  It all depended on what _____

  Options:
  A) does he want
  B) he wants
  C) he does want
  D) he wanted
  E) did he want
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1369: Choose the most appropriate stress pattern from the options. the stressed syllables are written in capital letters.dedication Options:
  A) dediCAtion
  B) DEdication
  C) dedicaTION
  D) DeDIcation
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1370:

  CHOOSE THE OPTION THAT IS NEAREST IN MEANING TO THE WORD(S) IN BRACKET, FOR QUESTIONS below.

  These policies have been [espoused] by the ruling party

  Options:
  A) condemned
  B) rejected
  C) supported
  D) outlined
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  The correct answer is C .