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

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• Question 3311:

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

  What appellation was given to Talle for all his amazing show of personality.

  Options:
  A) The cool and calm one
  B) the moody ones
  C) the simple and delicate one
  D) the quiet one
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 3312: 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 chief RAN to the place Options:
  A) Where did the chief run to?
  B) Did the chief walk to the place?
  C) Did the princess run to the place
  D) Who ran to the place?
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 3313:

  Choose the option that best completes the gap.

  All God's prophets were given the great __________ to preach salvation to people.

  Options:
  A) Commision
  B) Commition
  C) Comission
  D) Commission
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 3314: Choose the option that best completes the gap(S).A nursery rhyme is used to teach pupils how to spell the word _____ ? Options:
  A) hipoppotemus
  B) hippoppotemus
  C) hipoppotamus
  D) hippopotamus
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 3315:

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

  Because our representative is immature and biased he takes a jaundiced view of our problem

  Options:
  A) hazy
  B) unclear
  C) prejudiced
  D) bleak
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 3316:

  In the question below choose the option opposite in meaning to the word underlined:

  The military Governor upheld the decision of his cabinet

  Options:
  A) held up
  B) undercut
  C) maintained
  D) abolished
  E) reversed
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 3317:

  Choose the appropriate stress pattern from the options. The syllables are written in capital letters.

  melodramatic?

  Options:
  A) MELodramatic
  B) meLOdramatic
  C) meloDRAmatic
  D) melodraMAtic
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 3318: Select the option that best explain the information conveyed in the sentence?When I visited James I only gave him a congratulatory card on account of his promotion? Options:
  A) The only person I visited was James and nobody else
  B) It was only James that I gave a congratulatory card to
  C) All I gave James when I visited him was a congratulatory card
  D) All I did when I visited James was given him a congratulatory card
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 3319:

  Choose the most appropriate option for each group for questionsAlice, a small fragile-looking Ugandan mother, is dying of AIDS. She lives with her son and daughter in a tin-roofed shack on the .....1... of Kampala. When her husband died of AIDS in 1987, Alice discovered she was HIV positive. Frequent ...2..... of sickness forced her to give up her embroidery job. She was so depressed that she just wanted to eat. ....3.... by a neighbour, the mobile care unit from Nsambya hospital went to her home. They convinced her to start taking proper ..4....... After three months of ....5.... treatment, she regained her will to live. The AIDS time bomb .....6... on relentlessly. The World Health Organization ....7.... that 1.8 million Ugandans are HIV positive, nearly one in eight of the total population. The Ugandan AIDS Commission set up by President Museveni ..8...... the spread of the disease. However, under-porting and the lack of post-mortem and ...9..... makes it impossible to establish exact figures. No one ....10.... that it is a disaster far worse than the years of civil war.

   

  No one ....10.... that it is a disaster far worse than the years of civil war.

  Options:
  A) Denies
  B) Claims
  C) Rejects
  D) Imagines
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 3320:

  Choose the option nearest in meaning to the underlined words :

  In spite of the loud music, John soon managed to fall asleep

  Options:
  A) the loud music soon helped John to fall asleep
  B) John soon fell asleep as a result of the loud music
  C) the loud music made John despise sleep
  D) the loud music made John unable to fall asleep
  E) John soon fell asleep even though the music was loud
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  The correct answer is E .