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

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• Question 1551:

  Choose the option opposite in meaning to the underlined word(s).

  The agency has sworn to deal with all the apostles of confederation?

  Options:
  A) opponents
  B) apostates
  C) proponents
  D) protagonists
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1552:

  Complete each of the following sentences by choosing the option that most suitably fills the space;

  Before we left the airport, each passenger was made to _____ certain form

  Options:
  A) fill in
  B) write in
  C) enter in
  D) go through
  E) read out
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1553:

  The words in capital letters has emphatic stress. Choose the option to which the sentence relates.

  The President SPOKE to the press.

  Options:
  A) Did the president write to the press?
  B) Did the President speak to the press ?
  C) Who spoke to the press?
  D) Are these the pressmen that the President spoke to?
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1554:

  Choose the option opposite in meaning to the underlined word(s).

  Orinya balances the pail on her head with accustomed ease?

  Options:
  A) convincing
  B) surprising
  C) unwary
  D) unusual
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1555: Choose the most appropriate stress pattern from the option. Congratulation. Options:
  A) conGRAtulation.
  B) congraTUlation.
  C) congratuLAtion.
  D) CONgratulation.
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1556:

  Choose the one nearest in meaning to the word(s) in bracket

  Some men will continue to cause offences until they are given [a taste of their own medicine]

  Options:
  A) placated
  B) revenged on
  C) cured
  D) recompensed for
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1557: Choose the option that has a different stress pattern from the other. Options:
  A) rafity
  B) famous
  C) result
  D) taxi
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1558:

  Choose the most appropriate option for each group for questionsAlice, a small fragile-looking Ugandan mother, is dying of AIDS. She lives with her son and daughter in a tin-roofed shack on the .....1... of Kampala. When her husband died of AIDS in 1987, Alice discovered she was HIV positive. Frequent ...2..... of sickness forced her to give up her embroidery job. She was so depressed that she just wanted to eat. ....3.... by a neighbour, the mobile care unit from Nsambya hospital went to her home. They convinced her to start taking proper ..4....... After three months of ....5.... treatment, she regained her will to live. The AIDS time bomb .....6... on relentlessly. The World Health Organization ....7.... that 1.8 million Ugandans are HIV positive, nearly one in eight of the total population. The Ugandan AIDS Commission set up by President Museveni ..8...... the spread of the disease. However, under-porting and the lack of post-mortem and ...9..... makes it impossible to establish exact figures. No one ....10.... that it is a disaster far worse than the years of civil war.

   

  The AIDS time bomb .....6... on relentlessly.

  Options:
  A) Strikes
  B) Burns
  C) Ticks
  D) Drops
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1559: Select the option that best explains the information conveyed in the sentence.A state of mutual hatred existed for years between the two villages of Umunna and Ogboma? Options:
  A) Umunna hated Ogboma
  B) Ogboma hated Umunna
  C) Ogboma and Umunna hated themselves
  D) Umunna and Ogboma hated each other
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1560:

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

  Since his father's death, Osita has not been able to cope with the tasks of a family head

  Options:
  A) perform adequately
  B) torelate
  C) accept
  D) assess properly
  E) manage
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  The correct answer is A .