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

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• Question 1751:

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

  We all have both good and bad characteristics. Either is, however, easily manifested in times of crisis

  Options:
  A) demanded
  B) highlighted
  C) submerged
  D) determined
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1752: In the question below choose the option nearest in meaning to the word(s) or phrase(s) underlined:The newly elected leader has pledge to ensure better life for the citizens Options:
  A) vowed
  B) agreed
  C) undertaken
  D) undertaking
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1753:

  The words in capital letters has emphatic stress. Choose the option to which the sentence relates.

  The President SPOKE to the press.

  Options:
  A) Did the president write to the press?
  B) Did the President speak to the press ?
  C) Who spoke to the press?
  D) Are these the pressmen that the President spoke to?
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1754: In the question below choose the option nearest in meaning to the word(s) or phrase Underlined:She showed an affected interest in the game. Options:
  A) real
  B) pretended
  C) concerned
  D) slight
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1755:

  When Thomas Jefferson wrote in the American Declaration of independence that ‘all men are created equal’, he was not seeking to describe men’s endowments, but their political and legal rights. He was not saying that men do not differ from one another in the powers and dimensions of their bodies, minds and characters. He was asserting that despite variations and differences, they all possessed the right to equal political and legal treatment. We must however, ask of what real values are political and legal equality to a man who has no bread to eat , no clothes to wear, no roof to shelter him, no chance to earn a livelihood? What we understand as a democratic society must provide for its citizen’s minimum status protection in his deprivation, losses and fears.

  In our time, the nations of the democratic world have installed elaborate system of social security and welfare, ranging from compensation for industrial accidents to subsidize housing, unemployment insurance, old age pension, psychiatric care and national health services. It is encouraging that the democratic nations are making a serious effort to provide against the characteristic losses and disasters of human life.

  The evolving status of the Negro in America is attracting the attention of the champions of equality. Much has been written on the wrongs, injustice and inequalities of the coloured citizen of the USA and much remains to be said because the history of this struggle for human rights is still unfolding.

  A suitable tittle for the passage is Options:
  A) democracy
  B) discrimination
  C) equality
  D) freedom
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1756:

  Choose the option that complete the gap(s).

  If he arrived late, everyone _______ him?

  Options:
  A) would have blamed
  B) will blame
  C) would blame
  D) must blame
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1757:

  Answer the following question below and choose the option that has the same consonant sound as the one represented by the letter (s) underlined.

  hair

  Options:
  A) heir
  B) hour
  C) honest
  D) house
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1758:

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

  Our principal and chairman of the occasion _____ just arrived

  Options:
  A) has
  B) having
  C) have
  D) had
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1759: In the question below choose the option nearest in meaning to the word or phrase underlined:Tom's aberrant behaviour attracted attention. Options:
  A) rascally
  B) selfish
  C) heady
  D) abnormal
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1760:

  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 .