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

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• Question 3221:

  In this question, choose the option that best completes the gap(s).

  The proprietor of our school with his administrator ------------ expected yesterday.

  Options:
  A) are
  B) is
  C) was
  D) were
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 3222:

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

  This year's harvest is surplus

  Options:
  A) enough for need
  B) limitless
  C) more than enough
  D) plenty
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 3223: Choose the most appropriate option opposite in meaning to the word underlined word(s).To almost everyone in the little village, Ada's behaviour was almost odious? Options:
  A) repulsive
  B) difficult
  C) attractive
  D) charming
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 3224:

  Choose the most appropriate option nearest in meaning to the underlined words.

  Smiling broadly, she explained why she always took exception to being referred to as his wife?

  Options:
  A) objected to
  B) preferred very much
  C) felt specially honoured by
  D) liked nothing except
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 3225: Choose the option nearest in meaning to the word underlined?The striking workers have vowed not to return to work until the decision is reversed? Options:
  A) rescinded
  B) dismissed
  C) implemented
  D) reverted
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 3226:

  Choose the appropriate option to fill the gap in the following sentences:

  If Remi perform poorly in her forthcoming examination,then either her mother or i _____ to blame

  Options:
  A) must
  B) has
  C) will be
  D) are
  E) am
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  The correct answer is E .
• Question 3227:

  Choose the option opposite in meaning to the underlined word.

  On the first day of her examination, amina felt very confident?

  Options:
  A) excited
  B) dull
  C) beefed up
  D) strung up
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 3228:

  Developments in electronic science have transformed the art of record keeping to the modern age. Traditionally, records of events were kept only in people’s minds. It depends very much on the retentive power of the human memory. This was extremely dangerous as people either forgot events wholly or in part or deliberately falsified details to suit their various interests. Interminable arguments were thus order of the day. Even writing which replaced mental recording was not entirely free from these shortcomings as untruths could be written as true either willingly or inadvertently. With the advent of the electronic memory, however these dangers have been largely overcome. Recording on audio and video cassettes now show not what happened, but also who did or said what including how and when

  The author believes that electronic recording is Options:
  A) superior only to mental recording
  B) inferior to both mental recording and writing
  C) superior to both mental recording and writing
  D) inferior to only writing
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 3229: Choose the option that has a different stress pattern from the others. Options:
  A) ability
  B) quadruplicate
  C) registration
  D) revivalist
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 3230:

  Choose the option that has the same vowel sound as the one represented by the letter(s) underlined.

  Colonel?

  Options:
  A) golden
  B) girl
  C) colony
  D) gaol
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  The correct answer is C .