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 1661:

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

  The jollof rice served at the wedding reception was [malodorous]

  Options:
  A) small but palatable
  B) unpalatably big
  C) pleasant
  D) stale and smelly
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1662:

  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.

  Artificial quartz is produced Options:
  A) in Brazil
  B) from tiny transistors
  C) in an astonishing number of devices
  D) with the help of thermionic valves
  E) from natural crystals within steel cylinders
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1663: Choose the option that best completes the gap(S).Yesterday, my mother asked me _____ ? Options:
  A) are you tired?
  B) are you tired?
  C) whether was I tired?
  D) if i was tired?
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1664:

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

  Many of the workers hired for firing the furnace had themselves fired as a result of the unfortunate accident

  Options:
  A) got themselves burned accidentally
  B) jumped into the fire themselves
  C) got themselves sacked from their jobs
  D) were sacked from there jobs
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1665:

  One day, Alan, a friend of mine, who likes country life, was fishing in a river, when he caught a trout. He tried to put fish in but it slipped off the hook, flew over his head and landed in a field behind him.

  Alan put down his rod, went through the gate and started searching for his trout. Some people, obviously from the city were having a picnic in the field. One of the men shouted. ‘What on earth are you doing? Thinking that it was a silly question because they could see how hews dressed, Alan replied ‘Fishing’.

  ‘Don’t be silly, the fish are down in the river’, answered the man, ‘Fish don’t live fields! He turned to his friends, laughing, thinking that he had made a good joke.

  Oh, but they do, ‘said Alan, They jump out of the river to look for flies and I catch them with my hands. At that moment he found his trout in the grass and picked it up and showed it to the picnickers. He put it in his basket and bent down, as if he was hunting for another one. The picnickers, no longer laughing, spent the rest of the day searching the field.

  The picnickers were Options:
  A) farmers
  B) from the nearby village
  C) tourists
  D) people from city
  E) anglers like him
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1666:

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

  The boy told his mother _____ .

  Options:
  A) that was the girl he told her about
  B) that was the girl I told you about her
  C) that was the girl I told her about
  D) that is the girl he told her about
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1667:

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

  The authenticity of the reporter's claims should be established before taking further actions on the matter

  Options:
  A) facts
  B) source
  C) evidence
  D) genuineness
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1668:

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

  When i met Amadi yesterday it was the first time i _____ him for six months.

  Options:
  A) had seen
  B) saw
  C) have seen
  D) have been seeing
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1669: This question is based on the novel, The Life Changer.

  ''I want to know you intimately''
  What was the recipient's response?

  Options:
  A) approval and acceptance
  B) dismissal and confrontation
  C) rejection, dismissal and contempt
  D) sympathy and approval
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1670: Choose from the options nearest in meaning to the word underlined.The Governor told the chief that he was only on a routine tour? Options:
  A) normal and regular visit
  B) unplanned encounter
  C) surprise and imprompt check
  D) working visit and homage
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  The correct answer is A .