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

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• Question 2381:

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

  By January 1999, I _____ ten years in the service of this institution?

  Options:
  A) should have been
  B) would be
  C) can be
  D) must be
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 2382: Mr. Thomas talked _____ about the successes of his institute in the past year Options:
  A) at a great length
  B) for great length
  C) at great length
  D) for a great length
  E) at great lengths
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 2383:

  Select the option that best explains the information conveyed in the sentence.

  I owe you far less than you owe me?

  Options:
  A) My debt to you is greater than yours to me
  B) Your debt is not much greater than mine
  C) What we owe each other is approximately the same
  D) I owe you something, but you owe me much more
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 2384:

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

  The captain says sport is being debased by commercial sponsorship.

  Options:
  A) localized
  B) perverted
  C) elevated
  D) overvalued
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 2385: 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 2386:

  The market was old, timeless Africa; loud, crowed and free. Here a man sat making sandals from old discarded motor-car tyres; there another worked at an old sewing machine, making a nightgown-like affair while the buyer waited; a little further on, an old goldsmith worked at his dying art, but using now copper fillings instead of gold to fashion the lovely trinkets women wear the world over; elsewhere a woman sold country cloth fashioned with such fine art that only Africans think of it as a garment of utility. Trade was slow and loud everywhere. This was as much a social as a shopping centre. For an excuse to spend the day at the market, a woman would walk all way from her village to town with half dozen eggs. She would spread them on a little bit of ground for which she paid rent. Through the day she would squat on the ground and talk to others who came for the same reason. She would refuse to sell her wares till it was time to leave. They were the excuse for business. Whether in earnest or as an excuse, the traders were boisterously free, loud-mouthed and happy. The laughter of the market was a laughter found nowhere else in all the world……………

  According to the passage, the woman with half a dozen of egg in the market Options:
  A) is doing earnest business
  B) comes purposely to enjoy herself
  C) is like other traders in the market
  D) does not like her husband at home
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 2387:

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

  They promised to cause …. fuss …. possible.

  Options:
  A) As little/as
  B) A little/if
  C) A few/as
  D) The least/that
  E) All the/that
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 2388:

  Fill in the gap(s) with the most appropriate option from the list following the gap(s).

  The _____ engineer was unhappy with the shoddy work done by the contractors?

  Options:
  A) cite
  B) sight
  C) site
  D) side
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 2389: This question is based on the novel, The Life Changer.

  Who narrated the story of ''the quiet one'' to Ummi?

  Options:
  A) Hakimi
  B) the people of Lafayette
  C) Zaki
  D) Ummi's husband
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 2390:

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

  Granted you are my senior by one year, you cannot _____ me around as if i were your servant

  Options:
  A) control
  B) dribble
  C) order
  D) ask
  E) compel
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  The correct answer is C .