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 3281:

  choose the most appropriate option nearest in meaning to the word(s) underlined.

  He was underratedat the preliminary stage of the competition

  Options:
  A) advance
  B) initial
  C) selection
  D) crucial
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 3282:

  The words in capital letters have the emphatic stress. Choose the option to which the given sentence relates.

  Lamide is VERY hostile.

  Options:
  A) Is Lamide so hostile?
  B) Is Lamide friendly?
  C) Was Lamide very hostile?
  D) Who is hostile?
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 3283:

  The preparation which a study of the humanities can provide stems from three observations about education in our world of accelerating social and technological change. First, with the rate of change, we cannot hope to train our student for specific technologies. That kind of vocational education is obsolescent. By the time the specific training will have been completed, the world will have moved on.

  If our education consists of narrow training, we will not be prepared to change. Second and paradoxically, what our student desire from their education is preparation for specific careers – business, engineering, medicine, computer programming and the like, but we will not be able to train them for a life-long career. Their confronting the depressed job market gives our students a certain anxiety, but the solution they seek in vocational training is not sufficient. Third, we sense in our students a narrow materialism, with the good life defined in terms of material comforts. Education then means learning to do a job which will make money. I see in this definition a limiting sense of what education and thus life offer, a definition which excludes joy and meaning. Our narrow approach to the study of the humanities responds to these three related problems. In our changing, yet narrow world, the teaching of the humanities finds one powerful justification – it teaches student how to think.

  'We sense in our students a narrowing materialism' means that our students' concept of education is one that Options:
  A) Prepares them for money, joy and meaning
  B) makes them ready to confront the depressed job market
  C) only prepares them to acquire material comforts
  D) trains them for life-long career
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 3284:

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

  Idubor has gone to see his mechanic because his car engine needs to be turned

  Options:
  A) in
  B) off
  C) up
  D) on
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 3285:

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

  I told my brother to get the matter off his chest as soon as possible

  Options:
  A) give serious thought to the matter
  B) say what he has been anxious to say
  C) make a brief comment
  D) state his point clearly
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 3286: 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 3287:

  Complete the following with the appropriate answer to the question:

  John would you mind lifting this box?

  Options:
  A) yes, I mind
  B) no, I don't
  C) no, I do
  D) yes, I don't mind
  E) no I mind
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 3288:

  This question is from the novel The Last Days at Forcados High school.

  Who was the best student in chemistry?

  Options:
  A) Ansa
  B) Caro
  C) Nene
  D) Jimi
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 3289:

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

  Many states practise the ideals of democracy

  Options:
  A) government by election
  B) government by representative
  C) government by civilians
  D) government by all the people
  E) oligarchy
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 3290:

  Choose the option that complete the gap(s).

  Didn't _____ draw your attention to the entry requirements?

  Options:
  A) anyone
  B) everyone
  C) everybody
  D) nobody
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  The correct answer is A .