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

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• Question 221:

  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 222:

  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 223:

  This question is from the novel 'The Last Days at Forcados High school'.

  “Nene, this is my niece Efua Coker”. Who made this statement?

  Options:
  A) Moni
  B) Efua
  C) Mrs. Ekpo
  D) none
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 224:

  choose the option with the correct spelling from the options lettered A-E

  Options:
  A) Acommodation
  B) Accomodation
  C) Accormodation
  D) Accommodation
  E) Accomodetion
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 225:

  Choose the option that rhymes with the given word.

  Sheer?

  Options:
  A) sheila
  B) care
  C) ear
  D) sherry
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 226: Fill each gap with the most appropriate option from the lists provided.By this time next year, I _____ twenty years old? Options:
  A) would have been
  B) will be
  C) could have been
  D) will have been
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 227:

  As the stranger approached, shola noticed that he was handsome and her excitement increased. It was of such a man she had dreamt. He had fine, arrogant carriage, like a soldier or someone in authority. When he reached the end of the pier, he addressed them in a rich, deep voice that disturbed her as the voluptuous rising of the tide had gone.

  ‘You’re Tunde Onu, I’m told’, he said to her father.

  ‘That’s right, said her father.

  ‘The bus conductor told me you take people to the islands’, the man continued. I’d like to go there if you can take me.

  Her father examined the man from head to foot, shrewdly measuring his capacity to pay. Then he said:

  ‘When were you thinking of going?’

  ‘Right away’.

  ‘That’s different story, for my boatman is gone to Badagry and he won’t be back before nightfall.

  ‘Oh!’ said the stranger. That’s too bad. You couldn’t get someone else instead of him?

  ‘I would have to think hard’, he said gloomily, for its not everyone would do for the job of going with me beyond the bay to the islands at this time of the year.

  Shola understood her father’s manoeuvre and felt ashamed.

  Which of the following is NOT true of the passage? Options:
  A) shola did not approve of her father's behaviour towards the stranger
  B) shola's father could roe the stranger to the islands aolne had he wished
  C) shola's father exaggerated the difficulties in order to raise his fee
  D) shola had recently been disturbed by the tide
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 228: Choose from the options nearest in meaning to the word underlined.That punch by the young boxer prove to be fatal? Options:
  A) effective
  B) hard
  C) deadly
  D) belated
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 229:

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

  When the teacher asked him to join the queue outside, he considered it _____ to his dignity

  Options:
  A) an attack
  B) an insolence
  C) an affront
  D) a disrespect
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 230:

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

  We must not take with us the feelings of inadequate _____ experienced during preparations for the debate

  Options:
  A) that were
  B) those were
  C) that was
  D) that is
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  The correct answer is C .