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 3411: Fill each of the gap with the appropriate option from the list following the the gap.AIDS is _____ disease that kills slowly but surely? Options:
  A) too much a deadly
  B) very deadly a
  C) so deadly a
  D) such deadly a
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 3412:

  Answer the following question below and select the option that best explains the information conveyed in the sentence.

  Hardworking students must not have a finger in every pie at school.

  Options:
  A) Hardworking students must not have a role to play in most activities in the school
  B) Only hardworking students must participate in all activities in the school
  C) Hardworking students do not participate in all activities in the school
  D) Hardworking students must ask others to participate in school activities
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 3413:

  Choose the most appropriate option opposite in meaning of the underlined word.

  Our party is wielding potent political power?

  Options:
  A) assuming
  B) renouncing
  C) restoring
  D) reappraising
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 3414:

  In the question below choose the word(s) or phrase(s) which best fill(s) the gap(s):

  My uncle is one of the _____ of the society

  Options:
  A) elitists
  B) elites
  C) elite
  D) elitist
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 3415:

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

  _____ any good films lately?

  Options:
  A) You would like to see
  B) Have you seen
  C) Are you going to see
  D) Would you see
  E) You are seeing
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 3416:

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

  On his way back the boy ran into a long procession of men, women and children in _____

  Options:
  A) white beautiiful exceedingly flowing gowns
  B) exceedingly flowing white beautiful gowns
  C) exceedingly beautiful white flowing gowns
  D) white flowing exceedingly beautiful gowns
  E) flowing exceedingly white beautiful gowns
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 3417:

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

  One of the most difficult and confusing aspect of English language is its spelling system. There is often ….16…. [A. discrepancy B. discord C. a similarity D. concord] between the punctuation of a word and its spelling. One cannot always tell how to spell a word ….17…. [A. throughout B. by C. as to D. as from] its pronunciation.

  In order to understand the peculiarity of English spelling ….18….[A. difficulty B. confusion C. system D. code], it is good to know something about the history of the language. First, it is helpful to realize that English was originally spoken by people who could neither read nor write. While the ….19…. [A. middle-class B. educated C. less enlightened D. uneducated] people spoke English, the literate upper classes spoke French and wrote in Latin, later when English became a ….20…. [A. literary B. romantic C. written D. coded] language, there was no system for spelling its words. Moreover, the first writers of English were French speaking ….21… [A. newscasters B. scribes C. orators D. interpreters] who knew English only slightly: therefore, they carried many French spelling ….22…. [A. habits B. attitudes C. idiosyncrasies D. mannerisms] into English. In addition, these first writers of English, who were used to writing in Latin, often ….23…. [A. inserted B. interjected C. interpolated D. juxtaposed] letters into words even when they were not pronounced because the ….24…. [A. antecedent B. opposing C. corresponding D. synonymous] word in Latin was spelled that way. Finally, the confusion increased when the ….25…. [A. diction B.morphology C. orthography D. pronunciation] of certain words changed while the spelling remained the same.

  In question number 18 choose the best option from the letters A-D that best completes the gap Options:
  A) difficulty
  B) confusion
  C) system
  D) code
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 3418:

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

  The witness said he had no axe to grind with his brothers.

  Options:
  A) He had no hatred for the brothers
  B) He had no axe and therefore stole the matchet
  C) He had no axe and therefore borrowed their matchet
  D) He had no vested interest in the brothers.
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 3419:

  The passage below has gaps. Immediately following each gap, four options are provided. Choose the most appropriate option for each gap.

  PASSAGE IV

  With the most profound respect to the members of the Senate, I do not think that it is within the competence of that ...1... body to pass a motion to ...2... the executive action of the President. The Senate is ...3... of the National Assembly. But it is not by itself alone the National Assembly. One can imagine the confusion, which would be created if the ...4... were to take a view diametrically opposed to that reflected in the Senate resolution. The strongest objection to the action of the Senate in passing the resolution is the fact that it constituted itself the ...5... as well as the judge of the constitutionality of the action of the President. The function of the Senate is to ...6... laws. But the Senate has no authority or ...7... to control the President in the exercise of his ...8... powers. It cannot by a mere resolution or motion give any directive to the President regarding the exercise of his powers nor can it undo what the President has done in the exercise of those powers. The only way in which the exercise of the powers of the President can be ...9... is by ...10... of the National Assembly.
  Adapted from The Guardian of July 8, 1999, p. 8.

  ...1...

  Options:
  A) executive
  B) legislative
  C) judicial
  D) administrative
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 3420:

  Choose the word that is opposite in meaning to the underlined word.

  Nkechi was a novice when she was first employed.

  Options:
  A) manager
  B) clerk
  C) supervisor
  D) professional
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  The correct answer is D .