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

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• Question 2471:

  Choose the option that is nearest in meaning to the underlined word(s)
  No one would complain if you emulate good behaviour

  Options:
  A) differentiate
  B) condemn
  C) imitate
  D) exhibit
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 2472: Choose from the options nearest in meaning to the word underlined.Tade became timorous when she was asked to give the valedictory speech? Options:
  A) excited
  B) nervous
  C) aggressive
  D) happy
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 2473:

  choose the most appropriate option nearest in meaning to the word(s) underlined.

  He maintained that Nigerians need a leader with an iron fist

  Options:
  A) fist made of iron
  B) severe in treatment
  C) difiicult to please
  D) strong as iron
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 2474: Choose the word that has a different stress pattern from the others. Options:
  A) distress
  B) control
  C) bottom
  D) report
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 2475:

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

  I have decided to _____ drinking alcohol for health reasons?

  Options:
  A) abandon
  B) give up
  C) discard
  D) jettison
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 2476:

  Over the years there has been this hue and cry by government and the public policy advisers against the phenomenon of the rural-urban drift. Researches have been conducted on various aspects of this phenomenon which have resulted in the identification of the various causes and consequences of drift. In addition, prescriptions have been given for controlling the rural-urban drift.

  Among the causes most often mentioned are population pressures in some rural areas resulting in dwindling farm lands; increase in school enrollment and the resultant rise in education levels which qualify many people for urban employment, higher wages in the urban centres relative to rural centres and the rather naïve one of the ‘bright lights’ in the cities so much touted by early foreign sociologists.

  The most often mention consequences of this rural-urban migration includes depopulation of the rural area leading to overcrowding of the cities and the resultant housing and sanitation problems; decline in the agricultural population resulting in less food crops being grown and high food prices in the cities, and increasing urban unemployment. The results of the phenomenon are seen largely as negative

  Measures to control the rural-urban drift includes the establishment of essential amenities like water, electricity, hospitals, colleges, and cinema houses; the location of employment generating establishment and the building of good interconnecting roads.

  The sum total of these prescriptions in essence, unwittingly or paradoxically, is for the rural areas to be transformed into urban centres. This is so because to industrialize the rural areas would draw many more people out of agriculture than if industries were restricted to urban centres

  When industries are located in the rural areas, it involves much less cost for the prospective rural-urban migrant to change to a non-agricultural job, than is involved in his leaving a rural abode for a distance urban centre.

  Therefore, rural industrialization holds a higher potential for the de-agriculturalization of the rural population than when industries are concentrated in urban areas.

  The phenomenon of rural-urban migration has been intensively and extensively researched and studied, but it would seem that it has largely been misinterpreted and misunderstood. Consequently public policies on the subject have been misdirected.

  Migration in large number is said to result in Options:
  A) juvenile deliquency
  B) a fall in the production of food, accomodation and health in the cities
  C) highway robbery
  D) difficulty of life in rural areas
  E) mental stress by parents and relations
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 2477:

  Choose the option that complete the gap(s).

  Yesterday in the hall, Ola said that _____ his watch?

  Options:
  A) he had mislaid
  B) he had forgot
  C) he has misplaced
  D) he have lost
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 2478: Fill each of the gap with the appropriate option from the list following the the gap.Two young boys have been caught with parts of the stolen machine but _____ admitted stealing it? Options:
  A) neither of them has
  B) neither of them have
  C) none of them has
  D) none of them have
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 2479:

  The endeavor to maintain proper standard of fairness in journalism must be pursued. It is fatally easy for the journalist to deviate from the straight path. There is his natural desire to ‘make a story’ and insidious temptation to twist facts to square with his paper’s policy. Both are as indefensible as the framing of misleading headlines for the sake of effect. The conscientious journalist must check any tendency to bias, and guard against the dangers inherent in personal antipathies or friendships, and in traditional oppositions between rival schools of thought. When a political opponent, whose stupidity habitually provokes attack, makes an effective speech, honesty requires that he be given credit for it. Where personal relationships might make it easier and more congenial to keep silent than to criticize, the journalist must never forget his duty to the public and the supreme importance of recording the truth

  A dutiful journalist must Options:
  A) read widely
  B) have political acumen
  C) make no enemies but friends
  D) be able to make an effective speech
  E) be able to recognise merit wherever found
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  The correct answer is E .
• Question 2480: Select the option that best explains the information conveyed in the sentence.The man reasoned that there ought to be a limit to sycophancy? Options:
  A) there can be no favour beyond a reasonable point
  B) sycophants need not talk all the time
  C) people should know when not use flattery
  D) sycophants should know when to grant people's requests
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  The correct answer is C .