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

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• Question 1631:

  Complete each of the following sentences by choosing the option that most suitably fills the space;

  The green snake which lives in the green grass is using a perfect _____

  Options:
  A) ambush
  B) under cover
  C) camouflag
  D) shelter
  E) subterfuge
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1632:

  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 1633:

  In the question below, fill the gap with the most appropriate option:

  The helpless _____ our sympathy

  Options:
  A) require
  B) requires
  C) does require
  D) do requires
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1634: Choose the most appropriate option nearest in meaning to the underlined word(s).If experience is anything to go by, this action will prove a political minefield? Options:
  A) a source of political benefits
  B) a way out of political trouble
  C) a cause for political joy
  D) an invitiation to political problems
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1635:

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

  The Lagos bus conductor wore his professional livery.

  Options:
  A) badge
  B) shoe
  C) uniform
  D) cap
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1636:

  Fill the gap with the most appropriate option from the list following the gap.

  The keepers themselves are sometimes _______ by the bees?

  Options:
  A) stinged
  B) stang
  C) stung
  D) sting
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1637: Choose the option that best completes the gap(s).
  By the end of the football match today, we _____ the best player? Options:
  A) could have known
  B) might have known
  C) will have known
  D) would have known
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1638:

  Select the option that best explain the information conveyed in the sentence.

  The horizon may not be clear now, but the troubled spots have certainly been noted?

  Options:
  A) The horizon is dependent on the troubled spots
  B) Clarity of the horizon is dependent on the perception of the troubled spots
  C) The troubled spots are more perceptible than the horizon
  D) Horizon, clarity of the troubled spots and clarity are remarkably noted
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1639:

  A wolf, seeing a lamb drinking from a river, wanted to find a pretext for devouring him, He stood higher up the stream and accused the lamb of muddying the water so that he could not drink. The lamb said that he drank only the tip of his tongue and that in any case he was standing lower down the river, and could not possible disturb the water higher When this excuse failed him, the wolf said: 'Well, last year you insulted my father.' "I wasn't even born then replied the lamb. 'You are good at finding answer' said the wolf, 'but what do you mean by taking up so much of the path where I am walking?' The lamb, frightened at the wolf's angry tone and terrible aspect, told him, with all due submission, that he could not conceive how his walking on such a wide path could occasion him any inconvenience. 'What!' exclaimed the wolf, seemingly in great anger and indignation. 'You are as impudent as your father who seized me by the throat last year and caused me to be kept in a cage for three months'. 'If you will believe me,' said the lamb, 'my parents are poor simple creatures who live entirely by green stuff, we are none of us hunters of your species.' Ah! I see it's no use talking to you,' said the wolf, drawing up close to him. 'it runs in the blood of your family to hate us wolves, and therefore,as we have come so conveniently together, I'll just pay off a few of your forefathers scores before we part.' So saying, he leapt at the lamb from behind and garotted him. Adapted from Bennet. C.H(1978)

  The charges levelled against the lamb are

  Options:
  A) wandering, insolence and disrespect
  B) exuberance, pollution, wickedness and stubbornness
  C) garrulity, loquacity, pride and arrogance
  D) pollution, insolence obstruction and aggression
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1640:

  The market was old, timeless Africa; loud, crowed and free. Here a man sat making sandals from old discarded motor-car tyres; there another worked at an old sewing machine, making a nightgown-like affair while the buyer waited; a little further on, an old goldsmith worked at his dying art, but using now copper fillings instead of gold to fashion the lovely trinkets women wear the world over; elsewhere a woman sold country cloth fashioned with such fine art that only Africans think of it as a garment of utility. Trade was slow and loud everywhere. This was as much a social as a shopping centre. For an excuse to spend the day at the market, a woman would walk all way from her village to town with half dozen eggs. She would spread them on a little bit of ground for which she paid rent. Through the day she would squat on the ground and talk to others who came for the same reason. She would refuse to sell her wares till it was time to leave. They were the excuse for business. Whether in earnest or as an excuse, the traders were boisterously free, loud-mouthed and happy. The laughter of the market was a laughter found nowhere else in all the world……………

  Which of the following titles BEST reflects the content of the passage? Options:
  A) a market scene
  B) trading in the market
  C) an African market scene
  D) an African shopping centre
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  The correct answer is C .