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

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• Question 1751:

  Choose the option that best completes the gap(S). We won't leave until it _____. raining?

  Options:
  A) will stop
  B) stopped
  C) stops
  D) has stopped
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1752: Choose the option that best completes the gap(S).I was often angry _____ Oche since he differed _____ me often? Options:
  A) with / to
  B) about / with
  C) against / from
  D) with / with
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1753:

  Fill in the gap with the option that best completes the sentence.

  I have always found that it is helpful to have a few wise and trusted people to ________ you can turn for information and advice.

  Options:
  A) whom
  B) who
  C) whose
  D) that
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1754:

  Choose the most appropriate option nearest in meaning to the underlined word.

  The principal advised the students to bear with him in their present situation since every cloud has a silver lining?

  Options:
  A) every school has its problem
  B) every bad situation has something good
  C) good things always bring problems
  D) difficulties often bring good things
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1755: The government has decided to freeze student's grants. This means that government intends to Options:
  A) reduce grants meant for students
  B) resume paying grants to students
  C) make students repay the grants
  D) stop paying grants to students
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1756: Choose the option that best completes the gap(S).You can travel on your on your own _____ ? Options:
  A) isn't it
  B) can't you
  C) won't you
  D) shan't you
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1757:
  The passage below has gaps numbered 6 to 15. Immediately following each gap are provided. Choose the most appropriate option for each gap.

  Before any detailed analysis begins, the first thing to do with the data is to check through the field record book and questionnaires for any……..6……[A. records B. events C. odds D. mistakes], inconsistencies and incompleteness. In some cases, it may be possible to correct any discovered shortcomings. When it is possible to carry out these……..7……[A. plans B. possibilities C. corrections D. expectations].

  In most scientific……8…..[A. experiment B. data C. conclusion D. questionnaires] such revisits are clearly impossible. This is true of many surveys too. A road traffic survey…….9……[A. conducted B. experimented C. classified D. precoded] to find out the amount and frequency of daily traffic between two towns cannot be expected to be……..10…..[A. reproducible B. undertaken C. observed D. produced]. There is no way of going back to check whether the number of vehicles reported for any particular hour is correct or not. With open-ended questions the……11…..[A. methods B. responses C. errors D. conclusion] have to be classified into relatively small number of groups. The process of classifying answers and of sometimes identifying them by number and letter is called…….12…….[A. recording B. recoding C. encoding D. coding]. When closed-ended questions are used, it is possible to code all the possible answers before they are actually received. This is called……..13…..[A. precoding B. coding C. encoding D. recoding]. What is done, a check through the answers for proper classification, numbering and lettering is still called for at this stage. This whole process of checking through questionnaires and notebooks is called……14…..[A. editing B. posting C. listing D. auditing]. Collected data will eventually have to be used in drawing……15…..[A. references B. examples C. conclusions D. analogies] and writing a report about the population from which it came.

  In question number 7 above, choose the best option from the letters A-D that best completes the gab. Options:
  A) plans
  B) possibilities
  C) corrections
  D) expectations
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1758:

  Time was when boys used to point toy guns and say ‘Bang’. Now, they aim real guns and shoot one another. Nearly 4,200 teenagers were killed by firearms in 1990. Only motor vehicle accidents kill most teenagers than firearms and the firearms figures are rising. The chance that a black male between the ages of 15 and 19 will be killed by a gun has almost tripled since 1985 and almost double for white males, according to the National Centre for Health Statistics.

  Who could disagree with Health and Human services secretary, Donna Shalala, when she pronounced these statistics ‘frightening and intolerable?’. In the shameful light of this ‘waste of young lives’ in Ms Shalala’s words, an often-asked question seems urgently due to be raised again. Would less violence on television, the surrounding environment for most children and young adults make violence in actual life less normal, less accepted, less horrifying?

  It may be difficult to prove an exact correlation between the viewer of fantasized violence and the criminal who acts out violence after turning off the set. But if the premise of education is granted-that good models can influence the young-then it follows that bad models can have an equivalent harmful effects. This is the reasonable hypothesis held, by 80 per cent of the respondents to a recent Time Mirror [poll who think that violent entertainment is ‘harmful’ to the society. Witness enough mimed shootouts; see enough ‘corpses’ fall across the screen and the taking of a human life seems no big deal. Even if a simple causal relationship cannot be established between watching violence and acting it out, is not this numbed sensitivity reason enough for cutting back on the overkill in films and TV?

  The writer says 'the firearms figure are rising' because Options:
  A) more teenagers are now getting killed by firearms than by motor vehicle accidents
  B) firearms now have figures that are terribly high
  C) more teenagers now carry firearm than used to be the case
  D) more teenagers are now getting killed by firearm than used to be the case
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1759: Select the option that best explains the information conveyed in the sentence.The investigators stated clearly that they had reached a dead end in their scrutiny of suspects in the murder case? Options:
  A) the investigator did not know what to do with the suspects' murder
  B) the investigators had evidence to sentence the suspects to death in the end
  C) There was no further progress inthe investigation of the murder suspects
  D) the end had come for the suspects in the murder case
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1760:

  Choosing the word or phrase from A to E which has the same meaning as the underlined word or words in each sentence:

  The vote of thanks which was elaborately moved by the social secretary did not ring true particularly as the fund raising had been a big failure

  Options:
  A) was all lies
  B) was not honest
  C) was inaudible
  D) was not genuine
  E) was distorted
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  The correct answer is D .