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 3061:

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

  The driver was discharged while the car owner was ___________ for fraud.

  Options:
  A) remanded
  B) detained
  C) acquitted
  D) sued
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 3062:

  In question below fill the gap with the appropriate option:

  Adekunle is prepared for a _____ with his opponent following his defeat last season

  Options:
  A) show-off
  B) show-down
  C) show-out
  D) show up
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 3063:

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

  Hundreds of used items will go under the hammer during the weekend?

  Options:
  A) Unserviceable goods will be publicly destroyed at the weekend
  B) Impounded household items will be sold to the public before the weekend
  C) Damage items will be sold next weekend
  D) Many old items will be auctioned this weekend
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 3064:

  He started his career as an ........ teacher

  Options:
  A) auxillary
  B) auxilliary
  C) auxilary
  D) auxiliary
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 3065:

  Delinquency describes actions that would not be crimes if performed by adults. If a young person performs one of such actions then he has committed a crime. Delinquency is one of several status offences- offences that can be committed only by people in particular stations of life as determined by age, profession or a person’s role in society. For young people such offences include drinking, driving and smoking under age usually they are offences only to the extent that they help to preserve some of the good things of life for the exclusive enjoyment of the adult world. Delinquency is therefore a weapon forged in adult pride and intolerance. If the world changed overnight and the responsibility would than certainly refer only to many of the adult actions now freely committed by them.

  When young people make and enforce laws Options:
  A) the responsibility will be too heavy on their shoulders
  B) they would retaliate. against the adults
  C) their laws will be very juvenile
  D) the world will be turned upside down
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 3066: In each of the following questions, the word in capital letter has the emphatic stress. Choose the option that best fits the expression in the sentence.
  The man BOUGHT the newspaper Options:
  A) Is this the newspaper which the man bought?
  B) Did the man read the newspaper?
  C) Who bought the newspaper?
  D) What did the man buy?
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 3067:

  This question is based on "The Life Changer" novel.

  Bint was encouraged to take French at the primary level because _____

  Options:
  A) Her parents believed that language acquisition at an early age is relatively easy
  B) she would want to be a French mistress when she grows up
  C) all of the above
  D) it will be useful for her when she travels to France
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 3068:

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

  These six employees _______ absent from work since new year’s day.

  Options:
  A) Are
  B) Have been
  C) Were
  D) Had been
  E) Are being
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 3069: Fill each gap with the most appropriate option from the lists provided.Whenever we have _____ we feel better? Options:
  A) a long good talk together
  B) a good long talk together
  C) together a long good talk
  D) together a good long talk
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 3070:

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

  The hotel lacks the _____ for accommodating so many guests?

  Options:
  A) ability
  B) capability
  C) capacity
  D) competence
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  The correct answer is C .