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

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• Question 1571:

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

  Let's have a cup of coffee, _____

  Options:
  A) shall we?
  B) will we?
  C) should we?
  D) could we?
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1572:

  Choosing the appropriate option to fill the gap in the following sentences:

  Dume _____ in Abraka for three years when i met her

  Options:
  A) lived
  B) had lived
  C) would have lived
  D) was living
  E) was lived
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1573:

  Answer the following question below , the word in capital letters has the emphatic stress. Choose the option to which the given sentence relates.

  The cat DEVOURED the rat

  Options:
  A) did the rat devour the cat?
  B) what devoured the rat?
  C) did the cat eat the rat?
  D) Is this the rat that the cat devoured?
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1574:

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

  Science may be a complicated area of learning, but its teaching needs to be demystified

  Options:
  A) simplfied
  B) twisted
  C) made difficult
  D) distorted
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1575:

  Choose the option that has the same vowel sound as the one represented by the letter underlined.

  Goal

  Options:
  A) Face
  B) Boat
  C) Park
  D) More
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1576:

  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.

   

  After three months of ....5.... treatment, she regained her will to live.

  Options:
  A) Intensive
  B) Healthy
  C) Safe
  D) Heavy
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1577:

  Fill in the gap(s) with the most appropriate option from the list following the gap(s).

  You must study hard this semester in order to avoid being made _____ ridicule?

  Options:
  A) a subject of
  B) an object for
  C) a subject for
  D) an object with
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1578:

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

  One hindrance to an orderly economic development of the country is large scale fraud and corruption

  Options:
  A) difficult
  B) disturbance
  C) reason
  D) obstacle
  E) ritual
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1579: Choose the option opposite in meaning to the underlined word or phrase. The young girl was taken aback by her father's gift of a car. Options:
  A) Nonplussed.
  B) Shocked.
  C) Unmoved.
  D) Surprised.
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1580: Select the option that best explains the information conveyed in the sentence.The class was tired of the new boy jawing away all the times? Options:
  A) He bit off people's jaws
  B) He was always chewing in the class
  C) He was always making trouble for the class
  D) He talked continuously in the class
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  The correct answer is D .