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

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• Question 3451:

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

  In those days in this school, everyone who spoke in a language other than English paid a fine of ten naira?

  Options:
  A) Everyone of us paid a fine of ten naira because we did not always speak in English
  B) Everyone would pay a fine of ten naira for wanting to use a language other than English
  C) Those who spoke a language other than English on the premises paid a fine of ten naira
  D) Those who intended to speak other language onthe school premises were required to pay ten naira
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 3452:

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

  His father surmounted the myriad of obstacles on his way.

  Options:
  A) most
  B) few
  C) all
  D) many
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 3453: In the question below choose the option nearest in meaning to the word(s) or phrase(s) Underlined: Sade has been employed. But she is unhappy because it is a run off the mill job Options:
  A) a boring
  B) an exciting
  C) a tiring
  D) an ordinary
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 3454: In the question below choose the option nearest in meaning to the word(s) or phrase(s) underlined:He works long hour collecting trash to make out a livelihood Options:
  A) try a living
  B) struggle for a living
  C) make a living
  D) carve out a living
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 3455: Fill each gap with the most appropriate option from the lists provided.As election day draws near, the party looks _____ because many of its members have _____ other parties? Options:
  A) successful / decleared for
  B) vulnerable / defected to
  C) cheerful / moved to
  D) cheerless / cross-carpeted from
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 3456:

  Life is often difficult to describe. Men of wisdom in every society often find time to discuss life in order to explain it to the younger generation. I had been present in some meeting s a number of times. One topic that was discussed in one of them was beginning of life. ‘When did life begin?’ asked one of the men of wisdom. It was such an open-ended question. None of us could say precisely what happened when he was born. If he was born poor, he hardly would be very rich, particularly, if he was born honest in a corrupt society. If he was born rich, he might lose all his riches in one day. So, we often gather to tell one another about life. Recently, a statement was introduced into the vocabulary of English-Language – ‘The rich also cry’. The statement demonstrates, to a large extent, that even the rich people have their own period of time when life may prove very difficult and even meaningless to them. Have you not heard the experience of a very rich family whose vast business empire crumbled, in just one day? I have heard of a very rich man who lost his wife and three children in just one accident. Another rich man lost his thriving manufacturing company in an inferno. The compensation from his insurer could not solve half his financial problem. When one is poverty-stricken, that is a difficult dimension to the story of life. The poor person may prefer to die. Imagine when members of a family eat once a day! The quality of food becomes a different kettle of fish in such a circumstance. The dietician’s prayer that every normal human being must have a balance diet is cock and bull story to the poor. It is either that the poor do not have any opportunity that serves as recourse for them to be rich or that they are lazy people. Provisions must be made to create opportunities for self-development and self-realization. A lazy person cannot have his cake and eat it. People like him are not just only a problem to themselves but also to others in society.

  At times, such people are dangerous to their communities.

  Finally, what can one say about people who are terminally ill or insane? Perhaps silence becomes golden in that respect.

  According to the passage, dietician’s is one that Options:
  A) Brings succor to the poor man
  B) The poor will not believe in
  C) Says any poor person can be lazy
  D) Appeals to the poor
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 3457:

  In order to approach the problem of anxiety in play, let us consider the activity of building and destroying a tower. Many a mother thinks that her son is in a ‘destructive stage’ or even has a ‘destructive personality’ because after building a big, big tower, the boy cannot follow her advice to leave the tower for Daddy to see, but instead must kick it and make it collapse. The almost manic pleasure with which children watch the collapse in a second of the product of long play-labor has puzzles many, especially since the child does not appreciate it at all if his tower falls by accident or by a helpful uncle’s hand. He, the builder must destroy it himself. This game, I should think arises from the not so distant experience of sudden falls at the very time when standing upright on wobbly legs afforded a new and fascinating perspective on existence. The child who consequently learns to make a tower ‘stand up’ enjoys causing the same tower to waver and collapse; in addition to the active mastery over a previous passive event, it makes one feel stronger to know that there is somebody weaker-and towers, unlike little sister, can’t cry and call ‘mummy’

  According to this passage, it gives the child great pleasure Options:
  A) for daddy to see the tower he has built
  B) to destroy the tower himself
  C) to see his tower accidentally destroyed
  D) to be helped to destroy the tower
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 3458:

  Choose the appropriate option to fill the gap in the following sentences:

  Grace must be allergic _____ smoke because any time she sits by someone who is smoking, she sneezes

  Options:
  A) to
  B) from
  C) for
  D) with
  E) by
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 3459: Choose the option that has a different vowel sound from the others. Options:
  A) spot
  B) law
  C) north
  D) naght
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 3460:

  Choose the option that best completes the gap(s).

  I knocked at his door, but he _____

  Options:
  A) has already left
  B) left already
  C) would already leave
  D) had already left
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  The correct answer is D .