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

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• Question 2251:

  Choose the option nearest in meaning to the underlined words :

  The story told by the suspect was difficult to believe

  Options:
  A) incredulous
  B) credible
  C) incredible
  D) credulous
  E) ridiculous
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 2252:

  As a rule the Emopa are very brave indeed and are among the few Africans who still hunt lion with the spear. They also kill elephants, not for food but for spear blooding or to prove their manhood. When elephants are located, there is great excitement and fierce competition among the young men. Each tries to be first to blood his spear, the one who does so claims the trophy. No young man is looked upon with favour by the girls until he has won his spurs by killing a dangerous animal.

  But as brave as the Emopa are, two fierce man-eaters completely overawed them. This was partly due to the cunning and boldness of the lions, partly to the fact that when hunted, they would always retreat into dense riverine and undergrowth, where it was impossible for man to poise and throw a spear. Superstition had also added its quota to the fear with which they were regarded. It was said that before starting off on a raid the lions would retire to an open sandy place and there make two rows of depressions in the sand with their paws. Then, using twings as counters, they would play the ancient game of ‘baw’ (a game of unknown antiquity, which resembles draughts and is played all over Africa). If the omens were good they would raid a village and claim a victim, if not, they would wait. Another story had it that the lions were the spirits of two ‘holy men’ who had now come back in this shape to seek their revenge. So strongly was this view held that the local Emopa had petitioned a practising ‘holy man’ to come from a great distance to exorcise the spirits. He came with book, bell and candle and charged a fee of a hundred goats but the lions continued their depredations. To add to the legend of the lions invulnerability many hunters had tried on previous occasions to kill them and had failed owing to lack of time. This confirmed the Emopa’s opinion that lions were supernatural beings and that it was useless to hunt them.

  The young men of Emopa would hunt for elephants because Options:
  A) they are among the few africans that huntlions with a spear
  B) elephants are dangerous animals
  C) no young Emopa attracts a girl's admiration untill he has killed a dangerous animal
  D) when elephants are sighted, there is great excitement and fierce compitition amonmg the young men
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 2253: Jimi was very prominent in Forcados High School because he was Options:
  A) the son of a great scholar
  B) the only child of his parents
  C) one of the school prefects
  D) noted for his good paintings
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 2254:

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

  Note that only senior members of staff have the _____ of using the toilet upstairs

  Options:
  A) permission
  B) occasion
  C) privilege
  D) habit
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 2255:

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

  The crops the farmer planted will be ________ in three months time.

  Options:
  A) sold
  B) weeded
  C) uprooted
  D) harvested
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 2256:

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

  The bombs was _____ .

  Options:
  A) detonated
  B) dismantled
  C) deactivated
  D) depleted
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 2257: Choose the option nearest n meaning to the word or phrase underlined.
  Accountability is certainly a desirable quality in a politician. Options:
  A) respectability
  B) courage
  C) responsibility
  D) diligence
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 2258: Fill each gap with the most appropriate option from the lists provided.The members elected Baba _____ of the committee? Options:
  A) chairman
  B) their chairman
  C) to become chairman
  D) to be a chairman
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 2259:

  Fill each gap with the most appropriate option from the list following the gap.

  A sterile range of mountains, broken at intervals by deep ravines _____ almost the whole of this small state?

  Options:
  A) enclose
  B) encloses
  C) cover
  D) covers
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 2260:

  Choose the expression or word which best complete each sentence:

  I saw you walking in that direction but i did not know exactly _____

  Options:
  A) where are you going
  B) where you were going
  C) where were you going to
  D) to where were you going
  E) where you are going
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  The correct answer is B .