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

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• Question 2341:

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

  _____ a good film. Wasn’t it?

  Options:
  A) It is
  B) Was it
  C) There is
  D) It was
  E) There was
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 2342:

  Is work for prisoners a privilege to save them from the demoralizing effects and misery of endless unoccupied hour? Is it something added to a prison sentence to make it harder and more unpleasant, or something which should have a positive value as part of a system of rehabilitation?

  Those magistrates who clung to a sentence of hard labour doubtless looked upon strenuous work as an additional punishment. This point of view is widely accepted as right and proper, but it ignores the fact that unwillingness to work is often one of the immediate causes of criminality. To send prisoners back to the outside world, more than ever convinced that labour is an evil to be avoided, it to confirm them in their old way of life. It has been said that the purposed of prison work in a programme of rehabilitation is twofold: training for work and training by work. The prisoner, that is to say, needs to be trained in habits of industry; but over and above this, he will gain immeasurably if it is possible to rouse in him the consciousness of self-mastery and of purpose that the completion of any worthwhile piece of work can give to the doer. He may find the pride of achievement in something more satisfying, and more socially desirable, than crime. But these things can only come when the work itself has a purpose and demands an effort.

  According to the author, some magistrate sentence prisoners to hard labour because Options:
  A) some prisoners are unwilling to work
  B) work is a privilege
  C) prisoners need to learn a trade
  D) it is an additional punishment
  E) it is a means of rehabilitation
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 2343: Select the option that best explain the information conveyed in the sentence?The politician's inflammatory remarks were heavily criticized? Options:
  A) The politican's rude remarks were heavily criticized
  B) The politican's provocative remarks were heavily criticized
  C) The politician's bombastic remarks were heavily criticized
  D) The politician's tribalistic remarks were heavily criticized
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 2344:

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

  I wonder how he will _____ being absent from school for a long time.

  Options:
  A) make in
  B) make up
  C) make off
  D) make out
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 2345:

  Answer the following question below and choose the option opposite in meaning to the underlined word or phrase in.

  The principal was advised to be flexible on critical issues.

  Options:
  A) livid
  B) cautious
  C) evasive
  D) rigid
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 2346:
  The passage below has gaps numbered 6 to 15. Immediately following each gap are provided. Choose the most appropriate option for each gap.

  Before any detailed analysis begins, the first thing to do with the data is to check through the field record book and questionnaires for any……..6……[A. records B. events C. odds D. mistakes], inconsistencies and incompleteness. In some cases, it may be possible to correct any discovered shortcomings. When it is possible to carry out these……..7……[A. plans B. possibilities C. corrections D. expectations].

  In most scientific……8…..[A. experiment B. data C. conclusion D. questionnaires] such revisits are clearly impossible. This is true of many surveys too. A road traffic survey…….9……[A. conducted B. experimented C. classified D. precoded] to find out the amount and frequency of daily traffic between two towns cannot be expected to be……..10…..[A. reproducible B. undertaken C. observed D. produced]. There is no way of going back to check whether the number of vehicles reported for any particular hour is correct or not. With open-ended questions the……11…..[A. methods B. responses C. errors D. conclusion] have to be classified into relatively small number of groups. The process of classifying answers and of sometimes identifying them by number and letter is called…….12…….[A. recording B. recoding C. encoding D. coding]. When closed-ended questions are used, it is possible to code all the possible answers before they are actually received. This is called……..13…..[A. precoding B. coding C. encoding D. recoding]. What is done, a check through the answers for proper classification, numbering and lettering is still called for at this stage. This whole process of checking through questionnaires and notebooks is called……14…..[A. editing B. posting C. listing D. auditing]. Collected data will eventually have to be used in drawing……15…..[A. references B. examples C. conclusions D. analogies] and writing a report about the population from which it came.

  In question number 8 above, choose the best option from the letters A-D that best completes the gap. Options:
  A) experiment
  B) data
  C) conclusion
  D) questionaires
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 2347:

  Choose the option that best answers the question from the options lettered A-D

  He travels every WEEKEND

  Options:
  A) Does he sleep every weekend?
  B) Does he wash every week days?
  C) Does he travel every month?
  D) Does he travel every day?
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 2348: From the words lettered A to D, choose the word that has the same consonant sounds as the one represented by the letters underlined.Gritty Options:
  A) asked
  B) sachet
  C) depot
  D) wrestle
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 2349:

  Choose the option that has the same consonant sound as the one represented by the letters underlined.

  Film?

  Options:
  A) salt
  B) walk
  C) Psalm
  D) chalk
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 2350: In the question below choose the option nearest in meaning to the word(s) or phrase(s) Underlined: I have never been accustomed to seeing my brother in such a pensive mood Options:
  A) merry
  B) infuriated
  C) thoughtful
  D) hostile
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  The correct answer is C .