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

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• Question 2001:

  Choose the option that best completes the gap.

  While the worshippers closed their eyes in prayer, a thief made __________ with the collection.

  Options:
  A) away
  B) up
  C) by
  D) through
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 2002: Choose the option that best completes the gap(s). _____ his illness, Muhammad could not come to school? Options:
  A) wtih reference to
  B) referring to
  C) owing to
  D) due to
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 2003:

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

  Chinyere has not really described the Cabinet as irresponsible; she only _____ it in her speech.

  Options:
  A) allude to
  B) implied
  C) applied
  D) suggested
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 2004:

  In the question below which of the following options express the same idea as the one in quotes?:

  'To put something aside' is to

  Options:
  A) put it by ones side
  B) put it in a side pocket for future use
  C) keep something for some special purpose
  D) keep in safety
  E) protect it
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 2005:

  Choose the correct word to fill the space in the following sentences:

  Every time you pay a bill you must insist _____ being given a receipt

  Options:
  A) in
  B) from
  C) on
  D) by
  E) onto
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 2006:

  Select the option that best explains the information conveyed in the sentence.

  You are to write a report and give it to the security office?

  Options:
  A) After writting your report, give it to the security office
  B) You are writting a report, as the security office directed
  C) The report you are writting should be given to the securityoffice
  D) You have been ordered to write a report, which you will give to the security office
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 2007:

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

  My MOTHER served rice and fresh fish stew for dinner.

  Options:
  A) Did your mother serve rice and fresh fish stew for lunch ?
  B) Who served rice and fresh stew for dinner?
  C) What kind of meal did your mother serve for dinner
  D) What kind of stew did your mother serve for dinner
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 2008:

  Fill in the gap with the most appropriate option from the list provided?

  The group never felt strong enough to act in the open _____ hostility was the hallmark of their resistance?

  Options:
  A) covert
  B) overt
  C) vicious
  D) erratic
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 2009:

  There is a joke in a country that the closest anyone will come to experiencing eternity is the country’s court system. The problem is a strange aversion to settling cases. Judges pass them along to somebody else and rarely dismiss lawsuits, no matter how frivolous. The country’s lower courts have a backlog of about 20 million civil and criminal cases. An additional 2.3 million cases are pending before the high courts, while the Supreme Court has about 20,000 old cases on the docket. Many of those cases will take far longer than 16 years to resolve.

  But now, experts say, the country’s new Prime Minister is committed to fixing the problem. And the judiciary itself, long criticize as insular and resistant to change, seems finally to have concluded that changes are needed. The chief Justice of the Supreme Court has declared that soon the country will reduce its massive case backlog. After that, ‘there will be no place for any corruption or indolence in the system’. His choice of words was telling. Whatever moral imperative exists, the chief reason that the country is getting serious about streaming the legal system is economic. Dysfunctional courts increase the risk of foreign investors, tortuous rules slow the rise of new enterprises and murky laws regarding land ownership and other issues stifle the growth of industries like construction and retail. The country’s business is lobbying for change; its Federation of Chambers of Commerce and Industry, for instance, recently published a report that bemoaned the regulatory maze that confronts every commercial project, contributing to delays and cost overruns and providing one explanation why it receives only a tiny fraction of the foreign direct investment deposited in a neighbouring country. ‘Speedy judicial resolution will be one of the keys to making the country a competitive economy, conducive to growth and foreign investment,’ says an observer.

  The reasons for the country’s judicial debacle are legion. For one thing, it has fewer judges per capital than almost any other country in the world. In 2007, it had fewer than three judges per 100, 00 people. And the state itself, which account for 60 per cent of court cases, is overly litigious.

  one major reason for the delay in the country’s legal system is that Options:
  A) There are not enough judges
  B) Judges continue to resist change
  C) Foreigners are unwilling to invest
  D) The country does not have a competitive economy
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 2010:

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

  I looked for you all over the campus but i could not _____ you

  Options:
  A) find
  B) see
  C) meet
  D) catch
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  The correct answer is A .