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

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• Question 2261:

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

  The chief priest will _____ the men into the cult today

  Options:
  A) indoctrinate
  B) usher
  C) convert
  D) initiate
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 2262:

  Choose the word that has the same consonant sound as the one in bracket;

  Lo[s]e

  Options:
  A) loose
  B) sue
  C) refuse
  D) phones
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 2263:

  Choose the word/expression which best completes each sentence :

  The head of state in his new year broadcast to the nation emphasized the need for Nigerians to regard _____ as member of the same family

  Options:
  A) themselves
  B) one another
  C) each other
  D) yourselves
  E) theirselves
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 2264:

  Fill in the blank spaces in the following sentences making use of the best of the five options:

  I told him _____ he had no chance

  Options:
  A) quite by frankness
  B) quite frankly
  C) quite in frankness
  D) quite being frank
  E) quite to be frank
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 2265:

  For this question, choose the option opposite in meaning to the word or phrase in italics:

  Our son was highly active and exuberant

  Options:
  A) subdued
  B) fulsome
  C) lively
  D) bright
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 2266:

  Choose the most appropriate option opposite in meaning of the underlined word.

  The engineers have been urged to make a prototype of the long-awaited Nigerian car.

  Options:
  A) specimen
  B) original
  C) copy
  D) drawing
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 2267:

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

  Although he is in all respects a poor student, he has managed to buy a tape recorder to improve his _____ of french

  Options:
  A) mastery
  B) mastering
  C) speaking
  D) ideas
  E) thinking
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 2268:

  Read the passage carefully and answer the question that follows.

  Curiosity is as clear and definite as any of our urges. We wonder what is in a sealed telegram or in a letter which someone else is absorbed or what is being said in the telephone booth or in low conversation. This inquisitiveness is vastly stimulated by jealousy. Suspicion or any hint that we ourselves are directly or indirectly involved in. But there appears to be a fair amount of personal interest in other people's affairs even when they do not concern us except as a mystery to be unravelled or a tale to be told. The reports of a divorce suit will have news 'value' for many weeks, They constitute a story like a novel, a play or a moving picture. This is not an example of pure curiosity. However, since we readily identify ourselves with others' their joys and despair then become our own concern.

  Adapted from Harris, W. and L.G Wilson (1963) The University Handbook,New York: Holt Rinehart and Winston

  From the passage, we learn that some insects notably? Options:
  A) can distinguish between black and red
  B) cannot see red but other colours
  C) cannot distinguish between red and black
  D) can see red but not black
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 2269:

  In the question below choose the option opposite in meaning to the word underlined:

  Jim was one of the spectators as the concert

  Options:
  A) ushers
  B) judges
  C) guest
  D) performers
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 2270:

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

  I shuddered in revulsion as i watched the snake slowly swallow the struggling rat?

  Options:
  A) was fascinated
  B) was repelled
  C) was interested
  D) was distressed
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  The correct answer is B .