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

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• Question 2401:

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

  We admire the minister's passionate and dynamic characteristics?

  Options:
  A) cruel and passive
  B) kind and forceful
  C) passive charmless
  D) charmless and cruel
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 2402:

  Choose the word that has a different stress pattern

  Options:
  A) embrace
  B) suspect(V)
  C) member
  D) project(V)
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 2403: Choose the option that has a different vowel sound from the others? Options:
  A) tear (verb)
  B) hear
  C) weird
  D) mere
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 2404:

  Choose the option that complete the gap(s).

  My father has been away on a journey but my mother says she _____ he _____ this Friday?

  Options:
  A) expects / would arrive
  B) expected / will arrive
  C) expects / will arrive
  D) expected / would arrive
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 2405:

  The words in capital letters has emphatic stress. Choose the option to which the sentence relates.

  The President SPOKE to the press.

  Options:
  A) Did the president write to the press?
  B) Did the President speak to the press ?
  C) Who spoke to the press?
  D) Are these the pressmen that the President spoke to?
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 2406:

  Choose the option that best complete the gap (s):

  We should try to help_______.

  Options:
  A) the less fortunates
  B) less fortunates
  C) the less fortunate
  D) this less forunate
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 2407:

  In each of the following sentences, there is one underlined word. From the list of words lettered A to D, choose the one that is most nearly opposite in meaning to the underlined word.
  The test shows that the lumps are malignant.

  Options:
  A) numerous
  B) cancerous
  C) dominant
  D) benign
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 2408:

  Choose the option that has the same consonant sound as the one represented by the letter(s) underlined.

  garage

  Options:
  A) gear
  B) sure
  C) preesure
  D) measure
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 2409:

  Days passed fast for Ntanya and Teresa. They could hardly notice the land getting brown all over kachawanga again, since neither of them noticed any more the sun come up and go down. Ntanya would work very hard in the field hauling in the last harvest and Teresa would stay at home washing, cooking and waiting, waiting for him to come home. She would cook his meal with extra care and when there was little meat she would only give bits to the children and not even touch it herself but use only the smell to get her food down and reserve the whole chunk for her husband. When Ntanya would come home with sweat on his brows she would put the wooden tray on a stool for him and sit down by him watching him eat with great satisfaction: every bolus that went down Ntanya’s throat would also go down her own throat. When Ntanya would insist on sharing the food with her she would always say she had eaten already no matter how hungry she might be. Ntanya would then eat and drink to his satisfaction and rest a while in the sun after saying ‘Thank you mother’

  Ntanya said '' Thank you mother' to Options:
  A) his mother
  B) his wife
  C) his aunt
  D) Teresaá mother
  E) his grand-mother
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 2410:

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

  The rally was attended only by people who were apolitical?

  Options:
  A) full of political fervour
  B) antagonistic to politicians
  C) new-breed politicians
  D) not interested in politics
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  The correct answer is D .