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

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• Question 1371:

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

  If the armed robbers _____ caught, they would have been lynched.

  Options:
  A) would be
  B) have been
  C) are
  D) were
  E) had been
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  The correct answer is E .
• Question 1372:

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

  The answers to the questions were discussed _____ the students

  Options:
  A) between
  B) by
  C) for
  D) to
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1373:

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

  His hair needs _____

  Options:
  A) to cut
  B) to have cut
  C) being cut
  D) to be cutting
  E) cutting
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  The correct answer is E .
• Question 1374:

  Choose the option nearest in meaning to the word underlined?

  The last criticism at the rally was made in ignorance?

  Options:
  A) uniformed
  B) unimpeachable
  C) objective
  D) impeccable
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1375:

  When Thomas Jefferson wrote in the American Declaration of independence that ‘all men are created equal’, he was not seeking to describe men’s endowments, but their political and legal rights. He was not saying that men do not differ from one another in the powers and dimensions of their bodies, minds and characters. He was asserting that despite variations and differences, they all possessed the right to equal political and legal treatment. We must however, ask of what real values are political and legal equality to a man who has no bread to eat , no clothes to wear, no roof to shelter him, no chance to earn a livelihood? What we understand as a democratic society must provide for its citizen’s minimum status protection in his deprivation, losses and fears.

  In our time, the nations of the democratic world have installed elaborate system of social security and welfare, ranging from compensation for industrial accidents to subsidize housing, unemployment insurance, old age pension, psychiatric care and national health services. It is encouraging that the democratic nations are making a serious effort to provide against the characteristic losses and disasters of human life.

  The evolving status of the Negro in America is attracting the attention of the champions of equality. Much has been written on the wrongs, injustice and inequalities of the coloured citizen of the USA and much remains to be said because the history of this struggle for human rights is still unfolding.

  One of the social services provided by democratic nations is Options:
  A) catering for beggars and outcasts
  B) social welfare schemes
  C) protection from human rights abuses
  D) security against national disasters
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1376:

  Choose the most appropriate option opposite in meaning to the underlined words.

  He urged other progressives in the country to join forces with his association?

  Options:
  A) radicals
  B) conservatives
  C) pessimists
  D) activists
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1377:

  In the question below, fill the gap with the most appropriate option:

  The company was charged with a _____ of contract

  Options:
  A) negligence
  B) violation
  C) disregard
  D) breach
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1378:

  This question is based on "The Life Changer" novel.

  Who called the attention of the district head when it was discovered that Talle buys more than he could consume from the supermarket?

  Options:
  A) his friends
  B) the grocers
  C) His neighbors
  D) his colleagues
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1379:

  Choose the option that best complete the gap (s):

  Our teacher defined_______as the killing of one's mother.

  Options:
  A) materiarch
  B) patricide
  C) patriarch
  D) matricide
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1380:

  Fill each gap with the most appropriate option from the list provided.

  I have the _____ of meeting the President?

  Options:
  A) priviledge
  B) privedge
  C) previledge
  D) privilege
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  The correct answer is D .