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

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• Question 1561:

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

  Now, i am used _____ bread without butter.

  Options:
  A) to eat
  B) in eating
  C) of eating
  D) to eating
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1562:

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

  The school will _____ for Easter in another six weeks

  Options:
  A) break off
  B) break away
  C) break out
  D) break up
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1563:

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

  We enjoy the story but it sounds larger than life

  Options:
  A) too long and unsubstantiated
  B) a little watery and lifeless
  C) completely untrue
  D) somewhat unusual
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1564:

  Farming is the most important aspect of agriculture that has attracted attention within the last few years. Agriculture has several other aspects like fishery, livestock and poultry. All these are also important in that they have to do with the production of food items which human beings consume for survival.

  In many parts of world today, farming has been regarded as the mainstay of the economy. Crops such as cocoa, rubber and cotton have been produced in such commercial quantity that they are sold to other countries. Some countries have a better comparative advantage in producing certain farm crops than other countries. In these other countries, there is the need to spend a lot of money on agriculture, particularly farming. Most farmers use outmoded tools. A lot of them have no place to store their crops, most of which are always destroyed by insects and pests before harvest time. All these have adverse effects on their productivity.

  The government can do a lot to help farmers. Farmers’ co-operative societies can be encouraged and loans can be made available to farmers through government institutions, like banks and finance corporations. Farmers can be taught how to build good storage structures for their produce. All these and a lot more can help to improve the condition of farming in these countries.

  In order to help improve the state of farming, the government should Options:
  A) give all farmers enough money to work with
  B) sell enoughfertilizer to all farmers
  C) find ways of financing and modernizing the farming syster
  D) help farmers with the storage of their crops
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1565: Choose the option that has the same vowel sound as the one represented by the letter underlined. cool. Options:
  A) Should.
  B) Full.
  C) Luke.
  D) Look.
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1566:

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

  No matter to whom i _____ , nobody in the crowd had a clue to what was going on

  Options:
  A) discussed
  B) asked
  C) turned
  D) contacted
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1567:

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

  When i have an appointment with someone, i hate _____ waiting

  Options:
  A) to be keeping
  B) for being kept
  C) being kept
  D) in being kept
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1568:

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

  If you are not careful, you would _____ your money?

  Options:
  A) loss
  B) lose
  C) loose
  D) lost
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1569:

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

  _____ a good boy, he was given a prize.

  Options:
  A) To being
  B) Been
  C) Being
  D) To been
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1570:

  Read each passage carefully and answer the questions that follow it

  All over the world till lately, and in most of the world still today, mankind has been following the course of nature, that is to say, it has been breeding up to the maximum. To let nature take her extravagant course in the reproduction of the human race may have made sense in an age in which we were also letting her take her course in decimating mankind by the casualties of war, pestilence and famine. Being human, we have at last revolted against that senseless waste. We started to impose on nature’s heartless play a humane new order of our own. But, when once man has begun to interfere with nature, he cannot afford to stop half way. We cannot, with impunity, cut down the death-rate and at the same time allow the birth-rate to go on taking nature’s course. we must consciously try to establish an equilibrium or, sooner or later, famine will stalk abroad again

  'we must consciously try to establish an equilibrium, (line 8)implies that mankind must Options:
  A) realistically find an equation
  B) strive not to be wasteful
  C) delibrately try to fight nature
  D) try to fight nature
  E) purposely find a balance
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  The correct answer is E .