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

English is the study of the English language. The goal is to improve communication skills by practicing listening, speaking, reading, writing, and understanding language rules like pronunciation, vocabulary, and grammar.

• Question 2831:

  The young are not listening to their elders, and perhaps they never have. But now it happens that, with many of them, the reason may be medical. The young aren’t listening because they can’t hear. Just as nagging parents have long suspected, otologists (hearing specialist) now report that youngsters are going deaf as a result of blasting their eardrums with electronically amplified rock ‘n’ roll.

  The hearing specialists used to worry about loud noise as a cause of deafness only in industrial and military situations. They knew that eight hours of daily exposure, year in and year out, to the din of the proverbial boiler factory, would eventually result in permanent hearing loss. Riveters were particularly susceptible. Then they learned that the same thing happened to aviators. After the advent of jets, the hazard applied to the ground crews at airport and flight-deck personnel aboard aircrafts – hence the introduction of insulated noise absorbing plastic earmuffs.

  In discotheques and rock ‘n’ roll joints, the trouble is not so much in the instrument themselves, or the close quarters. The blame goes to the electronic amplifiers. An old-fashion military ban, playing a march in Ramat Park, generated as much sound. But the sound was not amplified and was dissipated in the open air. A trombonist sitting in front of a tuba player might be a bit deaf for an hour or so after a concert, and then his hearing returns to normal. A microphone hooked up to a public address system did not appreciably increase the hearing hazard. What he did was multiple microphones and speakers, and the installation of internal microphones in such instruments as guitars and bouzoukis.

  What is the result of being subjected to the din of the proverbial boiler factory for a long length of time? Options:
  A) A loss of hearing which will never improve
  B) Total deafness eight hours a day
  C) Temporary deafness
  D) Hearing loss which can be corrected by medical treatment
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 2832:

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

  Getting a well paid job nowadays is an _____ task?

  Options:
  A) utmost
  B) upbeat
  C) uphill
  D) upfield
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 2833:

  In the question below fill the gap with the appropriate option :

  The police are looking for _____

  Options:
  A) two big cars black
  B) two cars big black
  C) two big black cars
  D) two black big cars
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 2834:

  Choose the option opposite in meaning to the underlined word in each sentence.
  The abeyance of school activities last semester was a reason for concern.

  Options:
  A) continuance
  B) collapse
  C) reduction
  D) intensity
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 2835:
  A British electronics manufacturer has built a factory in which quartz crystals can be grown in 3 weeks. The natural growth of quartz takes 3 million years, and very often the crystals are not sufficiently pure to satisfy the precise needs of science. However, the manufactured crystals are exceptionally pure, and this is important because quartz, in transistors is used in an astonishing number of devices where constant accuracy is required: radio and television transmitters and receivers, space satellites and computers are familiar examples. In order to make artificial quartz, very small pieces of the natural crystal imported from Brazil are placed in long, narrow, steel cylinders. A high pressure and a high temperature are maintained within the cylinders for 3 weeks, and at the end of this the small fragments have grown to the required weight of one pound. The quartz is then ready to be made into the tiny transistors that have replaced the much larger thermionic valves.
  Transistors have Options:
  A) helped to rodce quartz
  B) made radio and television inaccessible to the working populace
  C) made transmitters and receivers smaller and lighter
  D) retarded progress in electronics
  E) made transmitters and receivers bigger and heavier
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 2836:

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

  She usually works hard, but _____ she could be very lazy?

  Options:
  A) at times
  B) atimes
  C) attimes
  D) at time
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 2837:

  Choose the expression or word which best complete each sentences:

  David can only become more mature through _____ to life outside his home

  Options:
  A) posting
  B) exposure
  C) exposition
  D) exposing
  E) positioning
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 2838:

  Choose the word or phrase from the options A - E which has the nearest in meaning to the underlined word or words in each sentence:

  Ekwensi's account with the Naira bank is in the red. His account

  Options:
  A) was written in red ink
  B) is overdrawn
  C) is in danger
  D) is special
  E) is heavy
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 2839:

  In the question below choose the word(s) or phrase(s) which best fills the gap(s):

  There is no need to stand _____ ceremony in matters of this nature

  Options:
  A) by
  B) to
  C) on
  D) for
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 2840:

  In the question below choose the word(s) or phrase(s) which best fills the gap(s):

  A tale of two cities _____ the _____ we are studying for examination

  Options:
  A) are/novels
  B) was/novel
  C) were/novels
  D) is/novel
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  The correct answer is D .