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

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• Question 2311: Select the option that best explains the information conveyed in the sentence.The slide in the price of gold in the world market has left the industry reeling? Options:
  A) The gradual fall in gold price is making the industry unstable
  B) The stablity in gold price is making the industry stagnant
  C) The decline in gold price is making the industry redundant
  D) The increase in gold price is making the industry to boom
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 2312: Choose the option nearest in meaning to the underlined word or phrase. All the researchers were asked to gather information on the new viral infection. Options:
  A) Give.
  B) Collect.
  C) Disseminate.
  D) Distort.
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 2313: In the question below choose the option nearest in meaning to the word underlined: The advertisement served as a smoke screen for the activities of the company Options:
  A) a camouflage
  B) a protection
  C) an enhancement
  D) an exchange
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 2314: Select the option that best explains the information conveyed in the sentence.The president held forth for several minutes on the need for patriotism? Options:
  A) The president was silent for some minutes when patriotism was being discussd
  B) The president whispered a few things about patriotism
  C) The president spent time saying a few things about patriots
  D) The president gave a rather long speech on the importance of patriotism
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 2315: This question is based on the novel, The Life Changer.

  ''I want to know you intimately''
  What was the recipient's response?

  Options:
  A) approval and acceptance
  B) dismissal and confrontation
  C) rejection, dismissal and contempt
  D) sympathy and approval
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 2316:

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

  The accused is optimistic of regaining his freedom because there is no witness to _____ his story?

  Options:
  A) correct
  B) chanllenge
  C) corroborate
  D) contradict
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 2317:

  In 1973 a Japanese sericulturist arrives in Malawi with a batch of 40,000 silkworm eggs. They were taken to the Bvumbwe Agricultural Research Station in Thyolo District. In this station, work is being done to determine favourable silkworm rearing conditions and areas where mulberry trees, leaves the worms feed on, could grow well. According to researchers, the silkworms- which eventually develop into cocoons from which raw silk is produced – do well with warm climatic conditions.

  Silk is one of the strongest of fibers. Infect, for thousands of years, silk fabrics have been regarded as the most beautiful and durable materials woven by man. Many people call silk the cloth of kings and queens’.

  The weaving of silk originated in china. An old Chinese book believed to be written by Confucius, tells us that the wife of Emperor Huang ti was the first person fabrics of silk. Around 2640 B.C Emperor Huang ti asked his wife His Ling-shih to study the worms that were destroying the mulberry trees in his garden. The Empress took some of the cocoons into the palace to see what they were made of. She dropped one of the cocoons into a bowl of boiling water and was amazed to see a cobweb-like tangle separate itself from the cocoon. She picked up the gauzy mass and found that one of the threads could be unwound almost without end from the cocoon. His Ling-shih had discovered silk. She was delighted with the discovery and even wove a ceremonial robe for the Emperor out of the cocoon threads. After that, the officials in the Emperor’s court wore brightly dyed silk robes on important occasions.

  People in other countries regarded the new fibers as something rare and beautiful. A few traders went to China to learn about making cloth from silk, but the Chines kept their silkworm a closely guarded secret.

  It is implied in the passage that silk was discovered Options:
  A) after years of hardwork and research by the Empress
  B) by accident
  C) in the search for a more durable fibre for making cloth
  D) after some experiments carried out by the Japanese sericulturist
  E) by design
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 2318:

  The earthly paradises of Bali and of the South Sea Islands, and the gentle, non-acquisitive civilization of Burma, have been aptly described and romanticized. One can add to then the Nicobar Islands, where a small population lived happily on a very low cultural level. But perhaps the most remarkable and the least known of these earthly paradise is the small kingdom of Hunza in the Himalayas, which was recently visited and enthusiastically described by the journalist, Noel Barber (Daily Mail, 5, 6, 8 June 1962). A fair-skinned population of 18,000, they lived in a fertile and almost inaccessible valley not far from the Sinking boarder, 8,000 feet up. A legend has it that they are the descendants of the three deserters from the army of Alexander the Great, who here with Persian wives which makes one inclined to believe that pacifism may be hereditary , because these people had no war in 2,000 years. They have no money, no crime and no diseases, they rarely die before ninety. Their psychosomatic control is almost unbelievable, childbirth is painless, and toothache, a joke; they keep their numbers stationary without contraceptives, and without abortion, but by sheer abstinence, though Noel; Barber saw the newborn son of a chuckling father aged eighty-nine. Their diet which consists of mostly apricot and raw vegetables may have something to do with their unshakable serenity. It makes one gasp with surprise that human nature can be like this. One is reminded of Huxley’s Island, but unlike the Palanese, the Hunza people have no art, only serenity!

  The kingdom of Hunza had no war in 2,000 years. this Options:
  A) this proves that pacifism is hereditary
  B) suggest that pacifism may be hereitary
  C) shows that Alexander the Great was their ancestor, and he hated wars
  D) is because they deserted the army od Alexander the Great
  E) is because they could not fight
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 2319:

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

  If we went to any European country _____ Britain, we should need a substantial amount of money to pay our way

  Options:
  A) like
  B) let us say
  C) as an example
  D) like say
  E) if we say
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 2320:

  complete the statement from the options lettered A-D

  The manager met the ______ who came visiting last week

  Options:
  A) dark tall good-looking American
  B) good-looking tall dark American
  C) Tall dark American good-looking
  D) American dark tall good-looking
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  The correct answer is B .