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

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• Question 1981:

  In the question below choose the option nearest in meaning to the word(s) or phrase Underlined:

  Some workers went on rampage at a trade-fair.

  Options:
  A) turned violent
  B) robbed
  C) were angry
  D) demostrated
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1982: Identify the word that has the stress on the first syllable. Options:
  A) resist
  B) salon
  C) confirm
  D) intact
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1983:

  Choose the option opposite in meaning to the underlined word(s).

  The man drew a sword as people congregated round him?

  Options:
  A) praised
  B) gathered round
  C) mobbed
  D) fled from
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1984:

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

  Everybody respects the team leader.

  Options:
  A) looks up for
  B) looks up on
  C) looks up to
  D) looks up at
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1985:

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

  It was difficult to _____ a man walking on the moon two centuries

  Options:
  A) contrive
  B) percieve
  C) concieve
  D) imagine
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1986:

  Choose the word/expression which best completes each sentence :

  He sent the children out to play _____ he might be alone

  Options:
  A) because
  B) so that
  C) yet
  D) since
  E) while
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1987:

  This question is based on Bolaji Abdullahi's Sweet Sixteen

  _________almost fainted when he heard that some students were caught on the school's basketball court at night having sex.

  Options:
  A) Mr James
  B) Aliya
  C) Mr Bello
  D) Bolaji
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1988:

  From the words lettered A to D, choose the word or group of words that best completes each of the following sentences.

  Many countries no longer have _______ punishment as the penalty for murder

  Options:
  A) mortal
  B) corporal
  C) capital
  D) fatal
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1989:

  Choose the word that has an opposite meaning to the one in bracket for questions below.

  Mr Santos Laliga is a [dipsomaniac]

  Options:
  A) teetotaler
  B) a drunkard
  C) an hater of women
  D) a promiscuous man
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1990: Choose the option opposite in meaning to the underlined word(s).The dramatist provided a satisfactory denouement to the play? Options:
  A) audition
  B) climax
  C) lavish
  D) simple
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  The correct answer is A .