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

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• Question 151:

  Choose the word/expression which best completes each sentence :

  He sent the children out to play _____ he might be alone

  Options:
  A) because
  B) so that
  C) yet
  D) since
  E) while
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 152:

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

  He is one of those who _____ in my school?

  Options:
  A) teaches
  B) is teaching
  C) are teaching
  D) teach
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 153:

  Jimi and Efua, there's something fishy going on there ...

  From the exercept above, the expression ... something fishy refers to

  Options:
  A) Nene's fear that Efua and Jimi were no longer going out
  B) Nene's fear that Jimi was not determined to jilt Efua
  C) Nene's annoyance that Efua might snatch Jimi from her
  D) Nen's suspicion that Jimi and Efua were having a relationship
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 154:

  From the options lettered A-D, choose the option that is nearest in meaning to the underlined word.

  Now that the company is insolvent , it will shut down.

  Options:
  A) overworked
  B) unstable
  C) bankrupt
  D) affluent
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 155:

  Fill in the blank spaces in the following sentences making use of the best of the five options:

  The way to stop some frivolous publications is to _____ the press

  Options:
  A) gag
  B) shackle
  C) fetter
  D) handcuff
  E) bind
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 156:
  The passage below has gaps numbered 16 to 25. Immediately following each gap, four options are provided. Choose the most appropriate option for each gap.

  With the most profound respect to the members of the senate, I do not think that it is within the competence of that………16…….[A. executive B. judicial C. administrative D. legislative] body to pass a motion to……..17…….[A. enforce B. nullify C. modify D. order] the executive action of the president. The senate is……..18…….[A. a wing B. a portion C. an anchor D. an arm] of the National Assembly. But it is not by itself alone the National Assembly. One can imagine the confusion which would be created if the……..19……..[A. House of Representative B. Judiciary C. National Assembly D. Executive council] were to take a view dramatically opposed to that reflected in the senate resolution. The strongest objection to the action of the senate is passing the resolution is the fact that it constituted itself the………20…… [A. litigant B. defendant C. plaintiff D. attorney] as well as the judge of the constitutionality of the action of the president. The function of the senate is to…….21….. [A. enact B. create C. compose D. annul] laws. But the senate has no authority or…….22…..[A. might B. power C. dynamism D. strength] to control the President in the exercise of his…….23……[A. official B. authoritative C. judicial D. executive] powers. It cannot by a mere resolution or motion give any direction to the president regarding the exercise of his powers or can it undo what the president has done in the executive of those powers. The only way in which the exercise of the powers of the president can be……..24…….[A. modified B. standardized C. regulated D. ordered] is by……..25……[A. an act B. a decree C. a motion D. a bill] of the National Assembly.

  Select the correct option for the space numbered 22 in the above passage Options:
  A) might
  B) power
  C) dynamism
  D) strenght
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 157: Choose from the options nearest in meaning to the word underlined.While the hooligans exchanged blows, we looked complacently? Options:
  A) dejectedly
  B) sorrowfully
  C) questioningly
  D) contentedly
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 158:

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

  The man rose to an important position as a result of ________ hard work

  Options:
  A) sheer
  B) cheer
  C) share
  D) shear
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 159:

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

  This class __________students and teachers

  Options:
  A) comprise
  B) comprises
  C) comprise of
  D) comprises of
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 160:

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

  There are many ways to kill a rat, so we should be _____ in our approach to the task ahead of us?

  Options:
  A) ecletic
  B) eclectic
  C) eclektic
  D) eclectik
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  The correct answer is B .