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

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• Question 2221:

  In question below fill the gap with the appropriate option:

  Every programming language and software package _____ limitations

  Options:
  A) have its
  B) have their
  C) has its
  D) has their
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 2222:

  For these questions, choose the option that best complete the gap(s):

  The officer________that he was not supposed to talk to the press on the matter.

  Options:
  A) could have known
  B) shall know
  C) should have known
  D) will know
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 2223:

  From the list of words or group of words lettered A to D, choose the one that is most nearest 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.

  Although Chide's manners are quite refined, his colleagues are rather ___________

  Options:
  A) bold
  B) crude
  C) hostile
  D) rash
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 2224:

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

  Many a man _____ done without milk in _____ tea these days

  Options:
  A) had/their
  B) has/his
  C) have/their
  D) had/his
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 2225:

  In the question below fill the gap with the appropriate option :

  From 7 a.m to 9 a.m, he _____ hot chocolate, often not having time for his own breakfast

  Options:
  A) is kept busy serving
  B) keeps busy to serve
  C) is busied serving
  D) kept busy to serve
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 2226:

  choose the option with the correct emphatic stress indicated in capital letters from the options lettered A-D

  Biography

  Options:
  A) bioGRAphy
  B) BIography
  C) biograPHY
  D) biOgraphy
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 2227: In the question below choose the option nearest in meaning to the word(s) or phrase Underlined:'This is a miniaturized version of your house' remarked the Architect. Options:
  A) compressed
  B) abridged
  C) decreased
  D) smaller
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 2228:

  In order to approach the problem of anxiety in play, let us consider the activity of building and destroying a tower. Many a mother thinks that her son is in a ‘destructive stage’ or even has a ‘destructive personality’ because after building a big, big tower, the boy cannot follow her advice to leave the tower for Daddy to see, but instead must kick it and make it collapse. The almost manic pleasure with which children watch the collapse in a second of the product of long play-labor has puzzles many, especially since the child does not appreciate it at all if his tower falls by accident or by a helpful uncle’s hand. He, the builder must destroy it himself. This game, I should think arises from the not so distant experience of sudden falls at the very time when standing upright on wobbly legs afforded a new and fascinating perspective on existence. The child who consequently learns to make a tower ‘stand up’ enjoys causing the same tower to waver and collapse; in addition to the active mastery over a previous passive event, it makes one feel stronger to know that there is somebody weaker-and towers, unlike little sister, can’t cry and call ‘mummy’

  According to this passage, it gives the child great pleasure 

  Options:
  A) For daddy to see the tower he has built
  B) To destroy the tower himself
  C) To see his tower accidentally destroyed
  D) To be helped to destroy the tower
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 2229:

  In the question below choose the option opposite in meaning to the word(s) Underlined:

  Our government is making determined efforts to eradicate illiteracy

  Options:
  A) compulsory
  B) ineffective
  C) innocent
  D) unreliable
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 2230:

  Read each passage carefully and answer the questions that follow it

  All over the world till lately, and in most of the world still today, mankind has been following the course of nature, that is to say, it has been breeding up to the maximum. To let nature take her extravagant course in the reproduction of the human race may have made sense in an age in which we were also letting her take her course in decimating mankind by the casualties of war, pestilence and famine. Being human, we have at last revolted against that senseless waste. We started to impose on nature’s heartless play a humane new order of our own. But, when once man has begun to interfere with nature, he cannot afford to stop half way. We cannot, with impunity, cut down the death-rate and at the same time allow the birth-rate to go on taking nature’s course. we must consciously try to establish an equilibrium or, sooner or later, famine will stalk abroad again

  'humane' as used in the passage means Options:
  A) sensible
  B) wise
  C) human
  D) benevolent
  E) thorough
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  The correct answer is A .