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

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• Question 2001:

  In the question below, choose the option nearest in meaning to the word or phase in italics.
  His taciturnity amazed everyone in the court during the legal tussle.

  Options:
  A) obliviousness
  B) reticence
  C) sensibility
  D) pervasiveness
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 2002:

  Choose the word(s) or phrase(s) which best fill(s) the gap.

  By the time the plane reaches Harare, it __________in the air for twelve hours.

  Options:
  A) has been
  B) would be
  C) would have been
  D) should be
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 2003:

  This question is based on the novel, The Life Changer.

  Omar's admission signals________

  Options:
  A) storytelling
  B) a life-changing experience
  C) being a learned
  D) community's appraisal
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 2004:

  Young men have strong passions, and tend to gratify them indiscriminately. Of the bodily desires, it is the sexual by which they are most swayed and in which they show absence of self-control. They are changeable and fickle in their desires, which are violent while they last but quickly over; their impulse are keen bot not deep-rooted and are like sick people’s attacks of hunger and thirst. They are hot-tempered and quick-tempered and apt to give way to their anger; bad temper often gets the better of them, for owing to their love of honour they cannot bear slighted and are indignant if they imagine themselves unfairly treated. While they love honour, they love victory still more, for youth is eager for superiority over other and victory is one form of this. They love both more than they love money which indeed they love very little not having yet learnt what it means to be without it. They look at the good side rather than the bad, not having yet witnessed many instances of wickedness. They trust others readily because they have not yet been cheated. They are sanguine; nature warms their blood as though with excess of wine and besides that, they have as yet met with few dis appointments. Their lives are mainly spent not in memory but in expectation for youth has a long future before it and a short past behind it: on the first day of one’s life, one has nothing at all to remember and can only look forward. They are easily cheated owing to the sanguine disposition just mentioned. Their hot tempers and hopeful dispositions make them more courageous than older men are; the hot temper prevents fear and the hopeful disposition creates confidence. We cannot feel fear so long as we are feeling angry and any expectation of good makes us confident.

  According to the passage, young men are Options:
  A) violet when they have sexual desires
  B) active and restive untill they satisfy their sexual desires
  C) indignant and fickle in satisfying their sexual desires
  D) hot-tempered when they are hungry or thirsty
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 2005:

  From the alternative provided in the question below select the one which is most appropriately completes the sentence:

  Someone _____ the radio cassette since 6 p.m. I wish he _____ turn it off

  Options:
  A) has been playing/ would
  B) is playing/ would
  C) played/ will
  D) has played/ should
  E) plays/ will
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 2006:

  From the options, choose the word(s) that best fill(s) the gap.

  Each of the contestants _____ a chance now.

  Options:
  A) has
  B) have
  C) get
  D) gets
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 2007:

  Choose the option that best completes the gap.

  The chairman refused to shake __________ with the secretary.

  Options:
  A) hand
  B) his hand
  C) hands
  D) his hands
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 2008:

  In the question below choose the word or phrase which best fills the gap in each sentence:

  After the team had concede two goals, their enthusiasm _____

  Options:
  A) was beginning to wane
  B) was waning
  C) began to wane
  D) had begun to wane
  E) had ben waning
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 2009: Choose from the options nearest in meaning to the word underlined.My father was at the apogee of his career when he was retired? Options:
  A) terminal point
  B) highest point
  C) least productive stage
  D) redundant stage
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 2010:

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

  Í'm sorry I can't give you any of the oranges; I have _____ left'.

  Options:
  A) few
  B) little
  C) only a little
  D) a few
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  The correct answer is A .