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

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• Question 1681:

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

  Snakes and ladders always _____ me happy these days.

  Options:
  A) makes
  B) make
  C) made
  D) making
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1682:

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

  If you are going to the market, may I _____ please?

  Options:
  A) for follow you
  B) come with you
  C) come by you
  D) come as your second
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1683:

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

  The contractors were short _____ cash even before the project was completed

  Options:
  A) in
  B) for
  C) with
  D) of
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1684: Fill the each gap with the most appropriate option from the list option from the list provided.I do not think any sane person would have acted in such a _____ manner? Options:
  A) rational
  B) composed
  C) secret
  D) crue
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1685:

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

  The guests _____ breakfast by the time the bus arrives.

  Options:
  A) Are finishing
  B) Have finished
  C) Shall have finished
  D) Had finished
  E) Will have finished
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  The correct answer is E .
• Question 1686:

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

  The problems of Nigeria's worsening economy seem to have _____ an immediate solution

  Options:
  A) defined
  B) defied
  C) rejected
  D) rewarded
  E) retained
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1687:

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

  When Uche wouldn't come to quickly enough, the principal rushed him to the hospital

  Options:
  A) revive
  B) pass out
  C) arrive
  D) come up
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1688:

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

  We later on discovered that some members _____ another meeting before the one advertised.

  Options:
  A) were holding
  B) have held
  C) have been holding
  D) had held
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1689:

  In the question below choose the word or phrase which best fills the gap in each sentence:

  Very few students have satisfactory _____ these days because the student population has increased tremedously

  Options:
  A) acommondation
  B) accomodation
  C) accommodation
  D) acommoddation
  E) acommodation
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1690:

  In many places in the world today, the poor are getting poorer while the rich are getting richer, and the programmes of development planning and foreign aid appear to be unable to reverse this trend. Nearly all the developing countries have a modern sector, where the patterns of living and working are similar to those in developed countries. But they also have a non-modern sector, where the pattern of living and working are not only unsatisfactory, but in many cases is even getting worse.

  What is the typical condition of the poor in developing countries? Their work opportunities are so limited that they cannot find occasional workout of their situation. They are under-employed, or totally unemployed. When they do find occasional work their productivity is extremely low. Some of them have land, but often too little land. Many have no land, and no prospect of ever getting any. There is no hope for them in the rural areas, and so they drift into the big cities. But there is no work for them in the big cities either – and of course no housing. All the same, they flock into the cities because their chances of finding work appear to be greater there than in the villages – where chances are nil. Rural unemployment, then, produces mass migration into the cities. Rural unemployment becomes urban unemployment.

  The problem can be stated quite simply: what can be done to promote economic growth in the small towns and villages which still contain about eighty to ninety per cent of the population? The primary need is work places, literally millions of work places. No one, of course, would suggest that output per worker is unimportant. Bu t the primary aim cannot be to maximize output per worker, it must be to maximize wok opportunities for the unemployed and the under-employed. The poor man’s greatest need is the chance to work. Even poorly paid and relatively unproductive work is better than no work at all. It is therefore more important that everybody should produce something, than that a few should each produce a great deal. And in most developing countries, this can only be achieved by using an appropriate intermediate technology.

  From the way the winter describes the typical condition of the poor in developing countries, one could conclude that Options:
  A) Rural poverty is a disease
  B) The poor have no hope
  C) Rural poverty is caused by rich
  D) The problems of the poor are temporary
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  The correct answer is D .