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

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• Question 2601:

  Choose the option opposite in meaning to the word(s) or phase in italics.

  The journalist said he was working freelance.

  Options:
  A) tireless
  B) without pay
  C) satisfactorily
  D) dependently
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 2602:

  Choose the expression or word which best complete each sentence:

  Walking down the street _____

  Options:
  A) the boy was knocked down by a car
  B) a car knocked the boy down
  C) the boy was knocked down by car
  D) a car collided with the boy
  E) a serious accident happened
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 2603:

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

  The old car _____ several times this year

  Options:
  A) was repaired
  B) has been repaired
  C) had been repaired
  D) has repaired
  E) was being repaired
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 2604:

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

  As luck would have it, the weather brightened almost immediately and after six hours flight we _____ at Heathrow Airport

  Options:
  A) touched down
  B) dropped
  C) came down
  D) flew down
  E) stopped
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 2605:

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

  Long after everyone _____ the hall, Obi still sat inside.

  Options:
  A) left
  B) is leaving
  C) has left
  D) had left
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 2606: Select the option that best explains the information conveyed in the sentence.The men were not pawns in someone else's political game? Options:
  A) The action they executed was their idea
  B) The men used someone else's plan
  C) They were used by someone's political game
  D) They loved playing political games
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 2607: Choose the option opposite in meaning to the underlined word(s).The chairman's conduct redounds to the image of the company? Options:
  A) assists in
  B) reflects on
  C) contributes
  D) detracts from
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 2608:

  In the question below, choose the expression or word which best completes each sentence:

  I have applied for _____ on the campus and almost certain i shall get it

  Options:
  A) acommodation
  B) accommondation
  C) accomodation
  D) acomoddation
  E) accommodation
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  The correct answer is E .
• Question 2609:

  These two factors the altitude and the weather, tend separately and together to defeat the climber. The height weakens, slows him down; it forces him to spend days and nights in the courses of his assault on the summit; the weather, besides adding to the demand of his energy and moral fortitude, conspires to deny him the time he needs to complete his mission. Whereas in lower mountains and on easy ground the weather may be no more than a handicap, in the high Himalayas it is decisive, regardless of terrain.

  The deduction to be drawn from these two factors is was clear enough. We must either so fortify ourselves that we could continue, without detriment, to live and have our being above the limit of natural acclimatization, or, better still, we must solve the problem of speed. It was desirable; in fact, that we must meet both these requirements and thus give to those chosen to attempt the summit and to their supporting teams some measures of insurance against the vagaries of the weather, for safety in mountain climbing is as much a matter of swiftness as of sureness of foot. Either or both could be achieved only by the administration of oxygen in sufficient quantities to make up for the deficiency in the air, and for the duration of the upward journey above the limit of successful acclimatization

  'to live and have our being above the limit of natural acclimatization' (line 7)means Options:
  A) to be protected from the effect of the weather
  B) to expect no protection from the bad weather
  C) to survive under unnatural weather conditions
  D) limit our natural desires to get acclimatized to the weather
  E) none of the above
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 2610:

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

  Based on the facts before me, I have no alternative _____ to hold you responsible.

  Options:
  A) only
  B) as
  C) than
  D) but
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  The correct answer is D .