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

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• Question 2561:

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

  The boss made a clean sweep of all old hands in the office

  Options:
  A) completely got rid
  B) cleanly swept the office
  C) made a quick change
  D) made an adjustment
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 2562: In the book "Independence" Wearing woolens, lamb cardigans, extra socks, gloves and Balliol scarf signified that Tayo was _____. Options:
  A) Cold
  B) Going to a party
  C) sick
  D) walking in the rain
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 2563:

  Choose the appropriate stress pattern from the options. The syllables are written in capital letters.

  advertisement?

  Options:
  A) adVERtisement
  B) advertiseMENT
  C) adverTISEment
  D) ADvertisement
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 2564:

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

  Ngozi has always considered her father to be an impassioned man?

  Options:
  A) Her father is a very strict man
  B) Her father is a very lively man
  C) Her father is an emotional man
  D) Her father is a disciplined man
  E) Her father is a disciplinarian
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 2565:

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

  Mrs. Adamu does all her work with more haste, less speed.

  Options:
  A) She accept whatever she does with more haste and speed
  B) She approaches whatever she does hurriedly
  C) She addresses everything she does very quickly to avoid mistakes
  D) She does everything carefully to avoid mistakes
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 2566:

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

  _____ mark an important step in the history of industrial revolution

  Options:
  A) The invention of the locomotive engine
  B) The discovery of locomotion
  C) The discovery of the engine
  D) The process of locomotion
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 2567:

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

  The builder's taste reflected superfluous grandeur

  Options:
  A) excellent
  B) superlative
  C) expensive
  D) too much
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 2568:

  So far I have been speaking of science in its universality, viewed from the perspective of the world at large. For the context of our own country and our sister developing countries, many of the factors mentioned earlier are not very important. For example, pollution, deterioration of the environment and population explosion are not yet serious problems for us in this country.

  Let me now turn to a more specific area, namely the question of scientific choice for developing countries. There is no doubt that role which science s and technology have played in the upliftment of the material and economic well-being of the developed nation will, and does, influence the criteria that the Third World nations must choose in order to establish their science policies and priorities.

  But the criteria to be used by this nation do not have the same as those which have brought the developed countries to their present stage of evolution. For while human beings have the same problems, their solutions, to be meaningful will have to be sought within some relevant frame of reference, such as the available resources and expertise, social values, place and time in the historical scale.

  frame of reference' in this passage (line 11 means) Options:
  A) point of information
  B) range of authority
  C) economic pattern
  D) contex of situation
  E) wholesome choice
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 2569:

  Fill in the gap with the most appropriate option from the list provided?

  He boasts so much about his high scores and he _____ at the efforts of others?

  Options:
  A) scorns
  B) sneers
  C) grins
  D) smilies
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 2570:

  Choose the interpretation that you consider most appropriate for each sentence.

  What I told you is the gospel truth. This means that the information is

  Options:
  A) unconfirmed
  B) partly true
  C) false
  D) completely true
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  The correct answer is D .