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

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• Question 1531:

  Answer the following question below and choose the option that best completes the gap(s):

  Her mother brought her some_______.

  Options:
  A) clothes
  B) yards
  C) cloth
  D) clothing
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1532: This question is based on the novel, The Life Changer.

  Which of the following characters did not respect the Hakimi?

  Options:
  A) Talle
  B) the IPO
  C) the courtier
  D) the villagers
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1533:

  Choose the word/expression which best completes each sentence :

  The teacher asked if she _____ seen her boyfriend recently

  Options:
  A) has
  B) have
  C) was
  D) had
  E) will have
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1534:

  Choose from the options opposite in meaning to the word underlined.

  The striking workers have vowed not to return to work until the decision is rescinded?

  Options:
  A) changed
  B) dismissed
  C) implemented
  D) incorporated
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1535:

  In the question below choose the option opposite in meaning to the word underlined:

  Employees have been urged to desist from witch-hunting and character assassination

  Options:
  A) commanded to stop hunting witches
  B) ordered to stop assassinating witches
  C) entreated not to accuse individuals unjustly and malicious
  D) informed to resist witch-hunters and character assassins
  E) urged to desist from barbaric acts
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1536:

  From the words lettered A to D, choose the word or group of words that best completes each of the following sentences.

  The man, as well as the woman ________arrested

  Options:
  A) have been
  B) has been
  C) is been
  D) are being
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1537: Fill the each gap with the most appropriate option from the list option from the list provided.The editor was not happy that the Nigerian press was hemmed _____ ? Options:
  A) up
  B) over
  C) across
  D) in
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1538:

  The endeavor to maintain proper standard of fairness in journalism must be pursued. It is fatally easy for the journalist to deviate from the straight path. There is his natural desire to ‘make a story’ and insidious temptation to twist facts to square with his paper’s policy. Both are as indefensible as the framing of misleading headlines for the sake of effect. The conscientious journalist must check any tendency to bias, and guard against the dangers inherent in personal antipathies or friendships, and in traditional oppositions between rival schools of thought. When a political opponent, whose stupidity habitually provokes attack, makes an effective speech, honesty requires that he be given credit for it. Where personal relationships might make it easier and more congenial to keep silent than to criticize, the journalist must never forget his duty to the public and the supreme importance of recording the truth

  A journalist would be able to uphold the tenets of his profession if Options:
  A) he seeks publicity
  B) he tries to achieve popularity
  C) he resists temptation to bias
  D) he canmanipulate his story to lease his employers
  E) he trie to protect his friends
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1539:

  A wolf, seeing a lamb drinking from a river, wanted to find a pretext, for devouring him. He stood higher up the stream and accused the lamb of muddying the water so that he could not drink. The lamb said that he drank only with the tip of his tongue, and that in any case he was standing lower down the river, and could not possibly disturb the water higher up, ‘when this excuse failed him, the wolf said: ‘Well, last year you insulted my father .’I wasn’t even born then, ‘replied the lamb.

  You are good at finding answers, ‘said the wolf, ‘but what do you mean by taking up so much of the path where I am walking? The lamb, frightened at the wolf’s angry tone and terrible aspect, told him, with all due submission, that he could not conceive how his walking on such a wide path could occasion him any inconvenience. ‘What! Exclaimed the wolf, seemingly in great anger and indignation. ‘You are as impudent as your father who seized me by the throat last year, and caused me to be kept in a cage for three months.

  If you will believe me, ‘said the lamb, my parents are poor simple creatures who live entirely by green stuff; we are none of us hunters of your species. ‘Ah! I see it’s no use talking to you, ‘said the wolf, drawing up close to him. ‘it runs in the blood of your family to hate us wolves, and therefore, as we have come so conveniently together, I’ll just pay off a few of your forefathers scores before we part. ‘so saying he leapt at the lamb from behind and garrotted him.

  Which of the following aptly describes the moral of the story? Options:
  A) the sins of the forefathers are visited upon the children no matter how long it takes
  B) if you have made up your mind to hang your dog, any rope will do for the purpose
  C) the law is week in defence of the poor against the rich and mighty.
  D) no matter how highly placed he is in society, the unmindful lawbreaker will always meet his nemesis.
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1540:

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

  The officer acted in _____ the instructions.

  Options:
  A) accorance by
  B) accordance to
  C) accordance of
  D) accordance with
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  The correct answer is D .