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

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• Question 2211:

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

  My spell in the university was an unmitigated disaster

  Options:
  A) an unavoidable
  B) a painful
  C) a regrettable
  D) an unqualified
  E) an unfortunate
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 2212:

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

  The POLICE arrested the suspect.

  Options:
  A) Did the police placate the suspect?
  B) Who arrested the suspect?
  C) Who did the police arrest?
  D) Did the police arrest the suspect?
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 2213:

  Complete each of the following sentences by choosing the option that most suitably fills the space;

  Before the operation, the dentist found that his patient's teeth _____

  Options:
  A) have long decayed
  B) have long been decayed
  C) have long being decayed
  D) had long decayed
  E) had been decayed
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 2214:

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

  I am not sure that all _____ well with John.

  Options:
  A) Were
  B) Is
  C) Are
  D) Will
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 2215:

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

  When we got to the president's house, we were told that he _____ two days earlier

  Options:
  A) may have left
  B) left
  C) had left
  D) has left
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 2216:

  In the question below choose the most appropriate option opposite in meaning to the word(s) underlined:

  The decision we have taken is irrevocable

  Options:
  A) responsible
  B) irresponsible
  C) reversible
  D) irreversible
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 2217:

  The evidence given so far demonstrates that a nuclear exchange in the Northern Hemisphere would have an unavoidable global aftermath making the continued existence of mankind impossible anywhere. It is also very improbable that a nuclear exchange would be confined exclusively to the vicinity of the industrialized developments indicate that a nuclear disaster would be carried into the territories of the developing countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America. These developments include the preparations being made by aggressive forces for the armed seizure of the Middle East oil fields, the nuclear missile deployment in the south of Western Europe, the establishment of military bases for the rapid deployment of forces in North Africa and the Indian Ocean and the tensions in the south Atlantic and the Caribbean.

  'Aggressive' in the passage means Options:
  A) millitant
  B) dissident
  C) reactionary
  D) revolutionary
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 2218:

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

  The mills of God grind slowly, but the grind exceedingly small?

  Options:
  A) God has a mill where every material in life is thoroughly ground
  B) God may seem slow in action, but he adequately rewards every bit of injustice
  C) The world is like a food factory where God take his time in grinding all raw materials properly
  D) Even though God is never in a hurry, He achieves al things
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 2219:

  From the list of words or group of wordslettered A to D, choose the one that is mostnearest opposite in meaning to the underlined word or group of words and that will, at the same time correctly fill in the gap in the sentence.

  The Major demanded an unalloyed and not a __________ loyalty from his soldiers

  Options:
  A) strict
  B) wavering
  C) clumsy
  D) alterable
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 2220: Fill each of the gap with the appropriate option from the list following the the gap.The baby was rather _____ than i could bear? Options:
  A) much more troublesome
  B) much too troublesome
  C) so much troublesome
  D) very much troublesome
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  The correct answer is A .