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

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• Question 191:

  Choose the option opposite in meaning to word underlined?

  The students were undeterred by the noisy lecture environment?

  Options:
  A) frustrated
  B) encouraged
  C) discouraged
  D) chanllenged
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 192:

  In the question below, choose the expression or word which best completes each sentence:

  The head of Department is away to Murtala Mohammed Airport and has asked Dr. Haruna to stand _____ for him

  Options:
  A) out
  B) in
  C) on
  D) across
  E) about
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 193:

  Choose the word/expression which best completes each sentence :

  We ought to stay away _____ the robbers come back

  Options:
  A) provided
  B) should in case
  C) although
  D) in case
  E) since
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 194: From the words lettered A to D, choose the word that has the same consonant sounds as the one represented by the letters underlined.dice Options:
  A) shame
  B) cue
  C) chair
  D) loss
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 195:

  Choose the option that best completes the gap(s).

  Government has frowned upon politicians who are out to _____ wealth.

  Options:
  A) gain
  B) amass
  C) steal
  D) waste
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 196:

  Fill in the gap(s) with the most appropriate option from the list following the gap(s).

  What saved her was that she _____ to the side of the boat?

  Options:
  A) had clinged
  B) clung
  C) clinged
  D) clang
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 197: Choose the option nearest in meaning to the underlined word(s).He is a stringer for a newspaper? Options:
  A) a financier of
  B) an editor of
  C) a freelancer for
  D) a reporter for
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 198:

  Choose the expression or word which best complete each sentences:

  There is an obvious need to ward _____ enemy attacks

  Options:
  A) away
  B) against
  C) out
  D) apart
  E) off
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  The correct answer is E .
• Question 199:

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

  ' _____ at 9:30 for more news',said the announcer.

  Options:
  A) Switch on
  B) Tune in
  C) Hook on
  D) Channel in
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 200:

  This question is from the novel The Last Days at Forcados High school.

  ‘No more chains in trousers or dangling earrings for the girls. There will be an inspection of fingernails and socks during assembly. Principal’s orders’ who said this.

  Options:
  A) the senior prefect
  B) principal
  C) headboy
  D) non-teaching staff
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  The correct answer is C .