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

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• Question 2051:

  Choose the option opposite in meaning to the underlined word.

  The plan to merge the two local government areas has met with much apathy?

  Options:
  A) hospitality
  B) criticism
  C) consideration
  D) enthusiasm
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 2052: Fill the gap with the most appropriate option from the list provided.The team Manger told us that the race could only be won by the _____? Options:
  A) flat-footed
  B) bare-footed
  C) switf-footed
  D) fore-footed
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 2053: Choose the option that has the stress on the first syllable. Options:
  A) bachelor
  B) condemn
  C) afternoon
  D) intact
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 2054: Fill the each gap with the most appropriate option from the list option from the list provided.The company Director showed the contractor a _____ of the proposed office complex? Options:
  A) prototype
  B) photograph
  C) microfilm
  D) photocopy
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 2055:

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

  If Kaka hadn't tried to stand up in the boat, he _____ into the lake

  Options:
  A) wouldn't have fallen
  B) will not have fell
  C) will not have fallen
  D) wouldn't have fell
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 2056:

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

  The officer refused to be taken in by the report given by the private

  Options:
  A) won over
  B) drawn in
  C) overtaken
  D) deceived
  E) invoved
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 2057:

  Is work for prisoners a privilege to save them from the demoralizing effects and misery of endless unoccupied hour? Is it something added to a prison sentence to make it harder and more unpleasant, or something which should have a positive value as part of a system of rehabilitation?

  Those magistrates who clung to a sentence of hard labour doubtless looked upon strenuous work as an additional punishment. This point of view is widely accepted as right and proper, but it ignores the fact that unwillingness to work is often one of the immediate causes of criminality. To send prisoners back to the outside world, more than ever convinced that labour is an evil to be avoided, it to confirm them in their old way of life. It has been said that the purposed of prison work in a programme of rehabilitation is twofold: training for work and training by work. The prisoner, that is to say, needs to be trained in habits of industry; but over and above this, he will gain immeasurably if it is possible to rouse in him the consciousness of self-mastery and of purpose that the completion of any worthwhile piece of work can give to the doer. He may find the pride of achievement in something more satisfying, and more socially desirable, than crime. But these things can only come when the work itself has a purpose and demands an effort.

  According to the author, some magistrate sentence prisoners to hard labour because Options:
  A) some prisoners are unwilling to work
  B) work is a privilege
  C) prisoners need to learn a trade
  D) it is an additional punishment
  E) it is a means of rehabilitation
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 2058:

  Select the option that best explain the information conveyed in the sentence:

  The man's Achilles' heel is women _____.

  Options:
  A) His weakness is women
  B) His strength is women
  C) He fights women
  D) He respects women
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 2059:

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

  The captain says sport is being debased by commercial sponsorship.

  Options:
  A) localized
  B) perverted
  C) elevated
  D) overvalued
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 2060:

  Choose the option that has the same vowel sound as the one represented by the letter(s) underlined.

  Beer

  Options:
  A) bear
  B) pear
  C) fair
  D) pier
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  The correct answer is D .