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

English is the study of the English language. The goal is to improve communication skills by practicing listening, speaking, reading, writing, and understanding language rules like pronunciation, vocabulary, and grammar.

• Question 1591: Choose the option nearest in meaning to the underlined word(s).The mottled skin of a person with HIV indicates an advanced stage of its development Options:
  A) brown
  B) spotted
  C) scaly
  D) pimply
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1592:

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

  All _____ well with Peter

  Options:
  A) are not
  B) have not been
  C) were not
  D) is not
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1593:

  Read the Passage carefully and answer the questions that follow.

  The term Mass Communication occurs when information is disseminated to a relatively large number of people in different places. it should be seen as the same thing with talking face to face with someone else. With mass communication, there is no answer, smile, laugh or lock of surprise. the people who receive the message are as far away from the source of the message as far away as you are from the announcers on the radio or from the newscasters on television, or from the writer of a column in the local newspaper.

  There are three identifiable means of errors in mass communication. There is one done through the printed words, books, magazine and newspapers. The other is primarily radio, but also records and tape recordings. Also, it can be done through a combination of sound and pictures as in television, films and the more recently popular video tape.

  Together, they are referred to as the mass media.

  All media can be used to inform and entertain. However, there are coverts roles played. It may be to educate as in school broadcast. Again, the aim may be to persuade as when the media are used by advertisers or for political broadcasts. The media are often in strong position to influence public opinion because they select the topics to be presented and can stress the importance of one issue over the other.

  The mass media have, in recent times, come under acerbic criticism. Many presenters have become not only conscientized but also immensely concerned about the possible effects that science of violence and bad behavior may have on their children. More worrisome are the potential danger of political and commercial propaganda.

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  One major source of worry about the mass media is from?

  Options:
  A) Broadcasting
  B) Advertisement
  C) Political rallies
  D) News casting
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1594:

  In the question below, choose the expression or words which best completes each sentence:

  I've lived _____ this street _____ ten years.

  Options:
  A) at, since
  B) for, during
  C) on, for
  D) on ,from
  E) in, for
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  The correct answer is E .
• Question 1595:

  Choose the word that has an opposite meaning to the one in bracket for questions below.

  The sick man is now [ambulatory]

  Options:
  A) recovering gradually
  B) walking
  C) sound in health
  D) immobile
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1596:
  A British electronics manufacturer has built a factory in which quartz crystals can be grown in 3 weeks. The natural growth of quartz takes 3 million years, and very often the crystals are not sufficiently pure to satisfy the precise needs of science. However, the manufactured crystals are exceptionally pure, and this is important because quartz, in transistors is used in an astonishing number of devices where constant accuracy is required: radio and television transmitters and receivers, space satellites and computers are familiar examples. In order to make artificial quartz, very small pieces of the natural crystal imported from Brazil are placed in long, narrow, steel cylinders. A high pressure and a high temperature are maintained within the cylinders for 3 weeks, and at the end of this the small fragments have grown to the required weight of one pound. The quartz is then ready to be made into the tiny transistors that have replaced the much larger thermionic valves.
  Transistors have Options:
  A) helped to rodce quartz
  B) made radio and television inaccessible to the working populace
  C) made transmitters and receivers smaller and lighter
  D) retarded progress in electronics
  E) made transmitters and receivers bigger and heavier
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1597:

  Choose the option that best has the same vowel sound as the one represented by the letter(s) underlined?

  Waist?

  Options:
  A) fete
  B) says
  C) plait
  D) breakfast
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1598:

  Choose the option that is nearest in meaning to the underlined word(s)

  Repugnant rules in the society should be repealed.

  Options:
  A) Enacted
  B) Exemplary
  C) Abhorrent
  D) Justified
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1599:

  Whatever may be its wider implications, the explosion of hydrogen bomb is, for the meteorologist, simply another atmospheric disturbance. It should therefore be classed with certain rare natural...such as volcanic ...12... But there are certain features of a man-made disturbance that requires special examination. As with all events on this ...13...It is impossible to describe what happens in details. However we can be reasonably sure of the main effects, and most impressive of these arises from ...14...The immediate result of the ...15... is that the air surrounding the bomb is raised very rapidly to an enormously high...16... The hot gases expand violently as great....17...compressing the air around them into what is called...18... or blast wave that is responsible for much of terrible destructive power of the weapon.

  Another kind of wave arises because of the weight of the air. The force of the explosion lifts the ...19...waves. Waves of this type are normally felt by human beings and they have their effect on the weather.

  Adapted from Ayoola K.(2007) University for All Students, Lagos, Nigeria: Olive Free Venture

  Choose the most appropriate answer in the numbered 15 Options:
  A) commotion
  B) detonation
  C) distortion
  D) reduction
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1600:

  Fill in the gap:

  Mr Collins does not allow his name to be published in connection with the philanthropy because he _________ publicity.

  Options:
  A) wields
  B) lacks
  C) detests
  D) defines
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  The correct answer is C .