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 3331:

  In the question below, choose the expression or word which best completes each sentence:

  We shall offer a good job to a _____ to register guests in the Central Hotel

  Options:
  A) waiter
  B) watchman
  C) cashier
  D) receptionist
  E) cleaner
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 3332:

  Choose the option that has a different stress pattern from the others.

  He says he _____ find me a job, but will accommodate me?

  Options:
  A) could not
  B) was not able to
  C) is not able to
  D) cannot be able to
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 3333:

  The passage below has gaps numbered 16 to 25. Immediately following each gap, four options are provided. Choose the most appropriate for each gap. Each question carries 2 marks.

    Publishing is the fast growing business in Nigeria and there are therefore, many publishing houses all over the country. When ……..16……..[A. an article B. an essay C. a book D. a manuscript]. is submitted by an author, the publisher sends it to ……..17……..[A. an assessor B. an evaluator C. a checker D. an examiner] to know if it is actually publishable. This is important because the publisher wants to make sure that the book catches the ……18…..[A. market B. audience C. students D. shops] when it is eventually published. In a good publishing house, there is …….19……[A. an error-proof B. an editor C. a lithographic D. an evaluation] section which is concerned with……..20……[A. proof-reading B. reading over C. scanning over D. skimming over] the manuscript and correcting both the spelling and typing errors. After this, the manuscript is ………21…….[A. typewritten B. typeset C. double-spaced D. single-spaced] in readiness for …….22…..[A. photocopying B. Xeroxing C. filming D. printing].

    The printed ……..23……[A. items B. bulletin C. copies D. specimen] are then stored in the warehouse and a few of them may be sent to the author as ……..24……[A. complementary B. complimentary C. acknowledgement D. sample] copies. Since it is not just the aim of the publisher to offset the cost of production but also to make some gains, there is a strong marketing division which promotes sales. A certain percentage of the cover price of the book is paid to the author as ……..25……[A. royalty B. honorarium C. dividend D. interest].

  Select the correct option for the space numbered 19 in the above passage Options:
  A) an error-proof
  B) an editor
  C) a lithographic
  D) an evaluation
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 3334:

  Choose the word/expression which best completes each sentence :

  Had he known he _____ away

  Options:
  A) will go
  B) will be going
  C) would have gone
  D) may be going
  E) is going
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 3335: Choose from the options nearest in meaning to the word underlined.While the hooligans exchanged blows, we looked complacently? Options:
  A) dejectedly
  B) sorrowfully
  C) questioningly
  D) contentedly
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 3336: The word in capital letter has the emphatic stress. choose the option in which the given sentence relates. AMINA went to Abuja by air. Options:
  A) Did Amina go to Jos by air?
  B) Is Amina going to Abuja by air?
  C) Who went to Abuja by air?
  D) Did Amina go to Abuja by road?
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 3337:

  After each of the following sentences, a list of possible interpretations of all or part of the sentences is given. Choose the interpretation that youconsider most appropriate for each sentence.

  Muiz does not let the grass grow under his feet. This means that Muiz _________

  Options:
  A) does not waste time in doing things
  B) is a very wicked man
  C) cuts the grass in his field regularly
  D) cares about himself
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 3338:

  Fill the blank spaces with the most appropriate of options A - E:

  When next i come to see you, you _____ in your new home.

  Options:
  A) are already living
  B) will already be living
  C) will already live
  D) will have lived
  E) have already been living
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 3339:

  This book consist of lectures given by me at Cambridge. Though they have been largely rewritten, I have kept a good deal of their original lecture-form, as being (I hope) rather less formal and less dogmatic. For to dogmatism, those who write on language seem, for some reason, particularly prone; and I should like to make clear at once that, if at times I have put my view strongly, I do not forget that such matters of taste must remain mere matters of opinion.

  In addition I have included a good many specimen passages from various authors. Perhaps I have quoted too much. But a book on style without abundant examples seems to me as ineffectual as a book on art, or biology without abundant illustrations. Many of these passages are in French. That may be Gallomanian on my part and I must apologize if they trouble some readers. But some ability to read French prose does seem to me most desirable for anyone who would write well in English. I have tried to choose pieces not too difficult in syntax or vocabulary. And in these days less than ever can we afford to be better insular.

  To write English well, the author says it is helpful to Options:
  A) to be able to write French farily well
  B) to be able to read Frecnch fairly well
  C) know French thoroughly
  D) must never be insular
  E) do all of the above
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 3340:

  Choose the option nearest in meaning to the underlined.

  The meeting was cancelled because of the convocation.

  Options:
  A) brought up
  B) called off
  C) broke off
  D) phased out
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  The correct answer is B .