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

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• Question 1711: fill in the blank spaces in the following sentences making use of the best of the five options: Shakespearian ...are generally the victims of circumstances. Options:
  A) heros
  B) heres
  C) he roses
  D) hero
  E) heroes
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  The correct answer is E .
• Question 1712:

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

  We must observe that most of the support by other states _____ only marginal returns

  Options:
  A) have yielded
  B) yield
  C) has yielded
  D) have yield
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1713:

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

  The buildings damaged by the rainstorm _____schools, hospitals and private houses

  Options:
  A) included
  B) include
  C) were included
  D) was including
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1714:

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

  They spent the last holiday with their _____

  Options:
  A) sister in-law
  B) sisters-in-law
  C) sisters-in-laws
  D) sisters-inlaw
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1715:

  Fill each gap with the most appropriate option from the list provided.

  The sergeant spoke to me in a _____ manner?

  Options:
  A) coarse
  B) causal
  C) coerce
  D) course
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1716: Choose the option that has a different stress pattern from the others. Options:
  A) ability
  B) quadruplicate
  C) registration
  D) revivalist
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1717:

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

  When we visited him, he offered us a variety of _____ drinks such as whisky and brandy?

  Options:
  A) hot
  B) local
  C) hard
  D) soft
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1718:

  Choose the option that has same vowel sound as the one represented by the letter (s) underlined.

  laud

  Options:
  A) lathe
  B) core
  C) lavatory
  D) loud
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1719:

  From the alternatives provided in the question below select the one which most appropriately completes the sentence:

  If only i _____ insured! But i wasn't. Now i have to pay a lot of money

  Options:
  A) am
  B) have been
  C) had been
  D) would be
  E) was to be
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1720:

  READ THE PASSAGE CAREFULLY AND ANSWER THE QUESTIONS THAT FOLLOW.

  With its radiant color and plant-like shape, the sea anemone looks more like a flower than animal. More specifically, the sea anemone is formed quite like a flower for which is named, with body like a stem and tentacles like petals in brilliant shades; blue, pink, green and red. Its diameters vary from about six millimeters in some species to more than ninety centimeters in the giant verities of Australia. Like corals, hydras and jelly fish, sea anemones are coelenterates. They can move slowly, but more often they attach the lower part of their cylindrical bodies to rocks, shells or wharf pilings.

  The upper and end of the sea anemone has a mouth surrounded by tentacles which the animal uses to capture its food. Stinging cells in the tentacles throw out tiny poison threads that paralyze other small sea animals. The tentacles then drag this prey into the sea anemone's mouth.The food is digested in the large inner body cavity. When disturbed, a sea anemone retracts its lump on a rock. Anemones may reproduce by forming eggs. dividing in half or developing buds that grow and break off as independent animals.

  The author compares sea anemone's tentacles to a flower

  Options:
  A) stem
  B) petals
  C) leaves
  D) roots
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  The correct answer is B .