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

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• Question 161:

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

  I have decided to _____ drinking alcohol for health reasons?

  Options:
  A) abandon
  B) give up
  C) discard
  D) jettison
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 162:

  In the question below fill in the right word/phrase:

  There is not _____ sense in what that politician has just said

  Options:
  A) many
  B) plenty
  C) lot of
  D) much
  E) big
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 163:

  When man evolved a conscience, his basic relationship with the other animals began to change. Until then, they were broadly divided into those which ate him when they got the chance, and a third group which completed with him for food, or was otherwise a nuisance to him in the business of keeping alive.

  In the primitive situation, man was, therefore, basically against Nature but, as the battle was progressively won, conscience crept in: the awareness of responsibility, and a failure to meet it, produced feelings of guilt. Those who live in cities and need no longer do battle against Nature are nowadays most actively for Nature. At this time, something like a thousand kinds of animals (vertebrate animals) can be in danger of would hardly justify the extermination of a giant reptile whose family has existed for 200 million years. Leopards are in jeopardy because of the fashion for their skins. As they get rare, the prices rise and as leopard skin coats become more expensive, the demand increases. No species can long survive the price of #60,000 which a half-grown baby leopard now carries on its skin. And crocodiles, the longest surviving reptiles, are now dwindling alarmingly as a result of the fashion in crocodile skin for ladies ‘handbags and men’s shoes.

  The human population explosion spreads mankind across the land surfaces of the earth at an alarming rate. There will be twice as many of us are dead. Does this mean no room for wild animals? Of course not. With ingenuity and forethought, a place can be kept for them. To destroy their habitat is as unnecessary as it would be to pull down a great cathedral in order to grow potatoes on the site. A campaign to save what remains is the concern of a new kind of Noah’s Ark- the World Wildlife Fund. It does not believe that all is lost.

  From the passage, the attitude of the writer can be described as Options:
  A) optimistic
  B) indifferent
  C) pessimistic
  D) partial
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 164:

  complete the sentences with the correct options from the list below:

  They said that _____ about 20 candidates for the job of a shorthand typist

  Options:
  A) they were
  B) it will be
  C) there were
  D) it was
  E) there are
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 165:

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

  Don't _____the teacher that he _____ that?

  Options:
  A) tell, said
  B) say, tells
  C) talk, spoke
  D) speak, talked
  E) tell, told
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 166:

  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 167: Choose the option that has a different vowel sound from the others. Options:
  A) cost
  B) won't
  C) hope
  D) coast
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 168:

  Choose the option that complete the gap(s).

  The girl cannot speak with a clear voice; she is always _______?

  Options:
  A) blabbing
  B) voiciferating
  C) stuttering
  D) gesticulating
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 169: Choose the option nearest in meaning to the underlined word(s).In spite of constant financial support from his father, Udenyi treats his studies with considerable levity Options:
  A) seriousness
  B) enthusiasm
  C) wastefulness
  D) lassitude
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 170:

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

  The principal said that he was pleased _____ my effort.

  Options:
  A) on
  B) of
  C) with
  D) about
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  The correct answer is C .