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

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• Question 2031:

  In each of the following sentences, the word that receives the emphatic stress is written in capital letters . From the options lettered A to D, choose the one which the sentence is the appropriate answer.

  She WORKS at the hospital.

  Options:
  A) Who works at the hospital?
  B) Where does she work?
  C) Does she work at the hospital?
  D) What does she do at the hospital?
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 2032: Efua's guarded and hostile attitude towards boys could be traced to Options:
  A) the teachings she had from her cleric
  B) stories she had heard from her aunt
  C) the experience she had with her stepfather
  D) her innate sense of justice
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 2033:

  Choose the option to which the given sentence relates:

  My Boss has an amiable DISPOSITION.

  Options:
  A) Does your boss have an amiable disposition
  B) Does my boss have an unfriendly disposition
  C) Does my colleague have an amiable disposition?
  D) Does my boss have an amiable complexion?
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 2034:

  Choose the most appropriate option nearest in meaning to the underlined words.

  He is bound to expose himself by his nefarious activities?

  Options:
  A) kind
  B) disreputable
  C) despicable
  D) nocturnal
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 2035:

  The endeavor to maintain proper standard of fairness in journalism must be pursued. It is fatally easy for the journalist to deviate from the straight path. There is his natural desire to ‘make a story’ and insidious temptation to twist facts to square with his paper’s policy. Both are as indefensible as the framing of misleading headlines for the sake of effect. The conscientious journalist must check any tendency to bias, and guard against the dangers inherent in personal antipathies or friendships, and in traditional oppositions between rival schools of thought. When a political opponent, whose stupidity habitually provokes attack, makes an effective speech, honesty requires that he be given credit for it. Where personal relationships might make it easier and more congenial to keep silent than to criticize, the journalist must never forget his duty to the public and the supreme importance of recording the truth

  A journalist would be able to uphold the tenets of his profession if Options:
  A) he seeks publicity
  B) he tries to achieve popularity
  C) he resists temptation to bias
  D) he canmanipulate his story to lease his employers
  E) he trie to protect his friends
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 2036: Fill each gap with the most appropriate option from the lists provided. _____ a motor cycle can be harmful _____ your health. Options:
  A) riding / for
  B) riding / to
  C) to ride / for
  D) to ride / with
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 2037: This question is based on the novel, The Life Changer.

  What is Ummi's mariculation number?

  Options:
  A) UF0001
  B) UG0002
  C) UG0001
  D) UF0002
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 2038:

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

  Because of the hard times, workers live in ___________ poverty

  Options:
  A) repulsive
  B) ridiculous
  C) abject
  D) unpardonable
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 2039:

  Choose the option that best conveys the meaning of the underlined portion in the following sentence;

  Mrs. Dada has been deserted by her husband because he feels she has a heart of stone

  Options:
  A) she has a heavy heart
  B) she has little warmth of feeling
  C) she has a hard heart
  D) she is hard hearted
  E) she has a strong heart
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 2040:

  Choose the option that rhymes with the given word.

  Fuel?

  Options:
  A) cruel
  B) fool
  C) rule
  D) field
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  The correct answer is A .