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

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• Question 3411:

  In the question below select the option (A-D) that best explains the information conveyed in the sentence:

  Bolade would make a mess of cooking the rice

  Options:
  A) it was typical of Bolade to make a mess of things
  B) Bolade cannot cook
  C) Bolade will not cook rice the rice well
  D) Bolade does not like cooking rice
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 3412:

  From the alternatives provided in the question below select the one which most appropriately completes the sentence:

  _____ the medicine, he asked his daughter to take it according to the doctor's prescription.

  Options:
  A) Having to buy
  B) Having bought
  C) Having been bought
  D) Having being bought
  E) Having buy
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 3413:

  Complete each of the following sentences by choosing the option that most suitably fills the space;

  Last week the _____ at the theater was the longest i had ever seen

  Options:
  A) assembly
  B) congregation
  C) convention
  D) audience
  E) crowd
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 3414: Select the option that best explains the information conveyed in the sentence.Jummai's father remarked that pigs would fly before she passed. Options:
  A) She would have to cheat in order to pass.
  B) It would be possible to pass only if she worked harder.
  C) It would never be possible for her to pass.
  D) He would have to bribe her teachers to enable her to pass.
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 3415: Select the wrongly spelt word from the options below: Options:
  A) disappointed
  B) embarassed
  C) equipped
  D) rhythm
  E) restaurant
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 3416:

  complete the statement from the options lettered A-D

  The manager met the ______ who came visiting last week

  Options:
  A) dark tall good-looking American
  B) good-looking tall dark American
  C) Tall dark American good-looking
  D) American dark tall good-looking
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 3417:

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

  Do this job while I am away, but take your time?

  Options:
  A) be careful
  B) be through
  C) be fast
  D) don't be in a hurry
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 3418:

  Choose the option opposite in meaning to the underlined word(s).

  The secretary runs down anybody that does not sing his praises?

  Options:
  A) hates
  B) pleases
  C) honours
  D) discredits
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 3419:

  Choose the option that complete the gap(s).

  The idle steward could not see _____ on the wall, and he lost his job?

  Options:
  A) the writting
  B) what will be written
  C) the handwritting
  D) what is written
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 3420:

  In many places in the world today, the poor are getting poorer while the rich are getting richer and the programmes of development planning and foreign aid appear to be unable to reverse this trade. Nearly all the developing countries have a modern sector, where the pattern of living and working are similar to those in developed countries. But they also have a non-modern sector where the patterns of living and working are not only unsatisfactory but in many cases are even getting worse.

  What is the typical condition of the poor in developing countries? Their work opportunities are so limited that they cannot work their way out of their situation. They are underemployed or totally unemployed. When they do find occasional works, their productivity is extremely low. Some of them have land but often too little land. Many have no land and no prospect of ever getting any. There is no hope for them in the rural areas and so, they drift into the big cities. But there is no work for them in the big cities either-and of course no housing. All the same, they flock into cities because their chances of finding some work appear to be greater there than in the village, where they are nil. Rural unemployment then produces mass migration into cities, rural unemployment becomes urban unemployment.

  The problem can be stated quite simply: what can be done to promote economic growth outside the big cities, in the small towns and villages which still contain 80 to 90% of the total population? The primary need is workplace, literally millions of workplaces.

  Where are the rich getting richer and the poor poorer? Options:
  A) in nearly all developing countries
  B) in a majority of countries in the world
  C) in developing countries with modern sectors
  D) in countries with non-modern sectors
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  The correct answer is B .