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

English is the study of the English language. The goal is to improve communication skills by practicing listening, speaking, reading, writing, and understanding language rules like pronunciation, vocabulary, and grammar.

• Question 1811:

  Choose the option opposite in meaning to the underlined word.

  On the first day of her examination, amina felt very confident?

  Options:
  A) excited
  B) dull
  C) beefed up
  D) strung up
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1812:

  The preparation which a study of the humanities can provide stems from three observations about education in our world of accelerating social and technological change. First, with the rate of change, we cannot hope to train our student for specific technologies. That kind of vocational education is obsolescent. By the time the specific training will have been completed, the world will have moved on.

  If our education consists of narrow training, we will not be prepared to change. Second and paradoxically, what our student desire from their education is preparation for specific careers – business, engineering, medicine, computer programming and the like, but we will not be able to train them for a life-long career. Their confronting the depressed job market gives our students a certain anxiety, but the solution they seek in vocational training is not sufficient. Third, we sense in our students a narrow materialism, with the good life defined in terms of material comforts. Education then means learning to do a job which will make money. I see in this definition a limiting sense of what education and thus life offer, a definition which excludes joy and meaning. Our narrow approach to the study of the humanities responds to these three related problems. In our changing, yet narrow world, the teaching of the humanities finds one powerful justification – it teaches student how to think.

  What is the major weakness of training students for specific technologies? Options:
  A) It trains students for only one type of career
  B) It helps students to acquire money later when they are employed
  C) It makes them anxious for a job in the market
  D) It cannot help students to cope with the rapid changes in the world
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1813:

  Choose the appropriate stress pattern from the options. The syllables are written in capital letters.

  suggestible?

  Options:
  A) suggeSTIble
  B) SUggestible
  C) suGGEstible
  D) suggestiBLE
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1814:

  The coach has asked the Bright Rangers to be paid their --6-- salaries and --7-- so as to --8-- them to victory against Mamelodi Sundowns of South Africa in Saturday'sall-importantCAF Champions League Match. Bright Rangers are the third in group B with four points --9-- many matches and need to --10-- defeat at second-placed Al - Ahly to stay in the --11-- for a place in the semi-final of Africa's most prestigious club competition. The Coach told MTN Football.com that the team would be better motivated if they at leastreceive their August salaries before the Al-Ahly --12--. We have to make sure that they are paid their salaries --13-- so that they can play the game of their lives. The government has done very well, but it will be a big morale --14-- to get paid for them to go out there and play. The Coach informed MTN Football.com that the Bright Rangers plan to employ the counter --15-- to get a result in Cario.

  --13--

  Options:
  A) on time
  B) as due
  C) as and when due
  D) for time
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1815: This question is based on the novel, The Life Changer.

  At what age did Tallelost his father and stepmother ?

  Options:
  A) 21
  B) 20
  C) 19
  D) 18
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1816: Choose the option that has the same stress on the first syllable. Options:
  A) insult (noun)
  B) prepare
  C) provoke
  D) pronounce
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1817:

  The evidence given so far demonstrates that a nuclear exchange in the Northern Hemisphere would have an unavoidable global aftermath making the continued existence of mankind impossible anywhere. It is also very improbable that a nuclear exchange would be confined exclusively to the vicinity of the industrialized developments indicate that a nuclear disaster would be carried into the territories of the developing countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America. These developments include the preparations being made by aggressive forces for the armed seizure of the Middle East oil fields, the nuclear missile deployment in the south of Western Europe, the establishment of military bases for the rapid deployment of forces in North Africa and the Indian Ocean and the tensions in the south Atlantic and the Caribbean.

  'Aggressive' in the passage means Options:
  A) millitant
  B) dissident
  C) reactionary
  D) revolutionary
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1818:

  complete the statement from the options lettered A-D

  The manager met the ______ who came visiting last week

  Options:
  A) dark tall good-looking American
  B) good-looking tall dark American
  C) Tall dark American good-looking
  D) American dark tall good-looking
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1819: Choose the option that rhymes with the given word. Ever. Options:
  A) Heavier.
  B) Favour.
  C) Fever.
  D) Never.
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1820:

  Choose the word/expression which best completes each sentence :

  The head of state in his new year broadcast to the nation emphasized the need for Nigerians to regard _____ as member of the same family

  Options:
  A) themselves
  B) one another
  C) each other
  D) yourselves
  E) theirselves
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  The correct answer is B .