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

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• Question 1591: In the question below choose the option nearest in meaning to the word(s) or phrase(s) underlined:He works long hour collecting trash to make out a livelihood Options:
  A) try a living
  B) struggle for a living
  C) make a living
  D) carve out a living
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1592:

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

  It was a blind alley. I could not walk any _____

  Options:
  A) Far
  B) Farthest
  C) Furthest
  D) Farther
  E) Further
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  The correct answer is E .
• Question 1593:

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

  The vice chancellor, who is a stickler of rules, refused the request by the students for the semester to be rescheduled

  Options:
  A) a puritan
  B) a pedanist
  C) disciplinarian
  D) an idealist
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1594:

  Choose the option opposite in meaning to the word or phrase in italics:

  The chairman is parsimonious.

  Options:
  A) Avaricious
  B) thrifty
  C) generous
  D) accustomed
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1595:

  Choose the option that complete the gap(s).

  My father has been away on a journey but my mother says she _____ he _____ this Friday?

  Options:
  A) expects / would arrive
  B) expected / will arrive
  C) expects / will arrive
  D) expected / would arrive
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1596: Fill each gap with the most appropriate option from the lists provided.Despite all preparations, the wedding did not _____ ? Options:
  A) come along
  B) come off
  C) come on
  D) come up
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1597: Choose the option that best completes the gap(S).The _____ event marked the beginning of a new life for the entire cabinet? Options:
  A) historical
  B) historicity of the
  C) historic
  D) history of the
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1598:

  Questions below are based on Bolaji Abdullahi's "Sweet Sixteen"

  The writer tried to point out religious intolerance in his book, by

  Options:
  A) discussing how the society believes certain religion is better than others
  B) using one of Aliya's classmates to condemn her religion
  C) demonstrating how the religious institutions forcefully impose their beliefs on the people
  D) painting Islam as a more righteous religion that others
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1599:

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

  _____ been there to look several times without success?

  Options:
  A) He' II
  B) He's
  C) Is he
  D) He is
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1600:

  Is work for prisoners a privilege to save them from the demoralizing effects and misery of endless unoccupied hour? Is it something added to a prison sentence to make it harder and more unpleasant, or something which should have a positive value as part of a system of rehabilitation?

  Those magistrates who clung to a sentence of hard labour doubtless looked upon strenuous work as an additional punishment. This point of view is widely accepted as right and proper, but it ignores the fact that unwillingness to work is often one of the immediate causes of criminality. To send prisoners back to the outside world, more than ever convinced that labour is an evil to be avoided, it to confirm them in their old way of life. It has been said that the purposed of prison work in a programme of rehabilitation is twofold: training for work and training by work. The prisoner, that is to say, needs to be trained in habits of industry; but over and above this, he will gain immeasurably if it is possible to rouse in him the consciousness of self-mastery and of purpose that the completion of any worthwhile piece of work can give to the doer. He may find the pride of achievement in something more satisfying, and more socially desirable, than crime. But these things can only come when the work itself has a purpose and demands an effort.

  Demoralizing in this passage means Options:
  A) deforming
  B) reforming
  C) agonizing
  D) destructive
  E) corrupting
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  The correct answer is C .