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

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• Question 2331:

  In the question below select the option that best explains the information conveyed in the sentence:

  Between you and me, i would say the equipment has outlived its usefulness

  Options:
  A) I believe that the equipment is no longer useful to any of us
  B) I believe that the equipment continues to be useful to either you or me
  C) My idea of the usefulness of the equipment should remain known only to the two of us
  D) My idea of the usefulness of the equipment is shared by both
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 2332:

  Choose the word/expression which best completes each sentence :

  He played the piano _____ an hour or two

  Options:
  A) around
  B) in about
  C) during
  D) while
  E) for
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  The correct answer is E .
• Question 2333:

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

  Smiling broadly, she explained why she always took exception to being referred to as his wife?

  Options:
  A) objected to
  B) preferred very much
  C) felt specially honoured by
  D) liked nothing except
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 2334:

  In this question, the word in capital letters has the emphatic stress. Choose the option to which the given sentence relates.

  EMEKA finished his homework yesterday.

  Options:
  A) Who finished his home work yesterday?
  B) When did Emeka finish his home work?
  C) Did Emeka do his home work yesterday?
  D) Was Emeka helped to do his home work?
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 2335:

  Choose the word or phrase from A to E which has the nearest meaning to the underlined word or words in each sentence :

  We all have both good and bad characteristics. Either is, however, easily manifested in time of crises.

  Options:
  A) Demanded
  B) Highlighted
  C) Submerged
  D) Demonstrated
  E) Ridiculed
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 2336:

  Choose the option opposite in meaning to the underlined word(s).

  The tennis player surreptitiously swapped rackets after the first set?

  Options:
  A) openly retained
  B) overtly exchanged
  C) quietly surrendered
  D) voilently swung
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 2337:

  The passage below has gaps numbered 11 to 20. Immediately following each gap, four options are provided. Choose the most appropriate option for each gap.

  Capitalism is an economic system which is founded on the principle of free enterprise and the private ownership of the means of production and distribution. The - 11 – [A. protagonists B. antagonists C. determiners D. attorneys] of capitalism claim that its essential characteristic is economic - 12- [A. exploitation B. manipulation C. manoeuvring D. freedom]. The producer is free to produce whatever goods he – 13 - [A. sells B. buys C. fancies D. manufactures]. but the - 14 – [ A. customer B. consumer C. controller D. marketer]. is equally free to buy what he wants. There is a market mechanism under this system, which brings the producer and consumer together and tends to equate the supplies of the one to the demands of the other, and -15 – [A. neutralize B. harmonize C. settle D. decide] the whims and caprice of both. It is this same - 16 – [A. market B. controlling C. operational D. production] mechanism which determines what prices the consumers pay to the producers, as what share of the total - 17- [ A. dividends B. interest C. output D. profit], in cash or kind, goes to each of the four recognized -18 – [ A. managers B. agents C. methods D. factors] of production – land, labour capital and organization. It is further claimed for this system that every person is capable of watching his or her own interest, and that whatever injustice is done by the - 19 – [A. pricing B. operations C. managers D. buyers and sellers] of the market mechanism, this mechanism tends to bring about a state of - 20 – [ A. conflict B. equidistance C. equilibrium D. opprobrium] between the producers and the consumers.

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  In the gap numbered 13 above, choose the best option from letters A - D that best completes the gap. Options:
  A) sells
  B) buys
  C) fancies
  D) manfactures
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 2338:

  In the question below choose the option nearest in meaning to the word(s) or phrase(s) Underlined:

  'Marcus bears watching; remarked Emperor Nero.

  Options:
  A) deserves
  B) needs
  C) favours
  D) enjoys
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 2339:

  In the question bellow choose the expression or word which best completes each sentence:

  It took the father many days to get _____ the untimely death if his son

  Options:
  A) off
  B) over
  C) by
  D) through
  E) across
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 2340:

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

  It is important not to let mistakes blight your life

  Options:
  A) damage
  B) impart
  C) improve
  D) ruin
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  The correct answer is C .