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 3581:

  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 3582:

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

  There is no love lost between Hassan and Hassana

  Options:
  A) dislike each other
  B) are head over heals in love
  C) will love each other
  D) are still good friends
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 3583: Select the word that has the same pattern of stress as given word.ENORMOUS? Options:
  A) interest
  B) solution
  C) stupidly
  D) character
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 3584: Choose the option that best completes the gap(S).The public library has stopped _____. books to readers? Options:
  A) borrowing
  B) lending
  C) renting
  D) loaning
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 3585:

  The land was ready and ploughed, waiting for the crops. At night, the earth was alive with insects singing and rustling about in search of food. But suddenly, by mid-November, the rain fled away: the rain-clouds fled away and left the sky bare. The sun danced dizzily in the sky, with a strange cruelty. Each day the land was covered in a haze of mist as the sun sucked up the drop of moisture out of the earth. The family set down in despair, waiting and waiting,. Their hopes had run so high; the goats has started producing milk, which they had eagerly poured on their porridge, now they ate plain porridge with no milk. It was impossible to plant the corn, maize, pumpkin and water-melon seeds in the dry earth. They sat the whole day in the shadow of the huts and even stopped thinking, for the rain had fled away. Only the children were quite happy in their little girl world. They carried on with their game of making house like their mother and chattered to each other in light, soft tones. They made children from sticks around which they tied rags, and scolded them severely in an exact imitation of their own mother. Their voices could be heard, scolding all day long: ‘You stupid thing, when I send you to draw water, why do you spill half of it out of the bucket? ‘You stupid thing! Can’t you mind the porridge pot without letting the porridge he burn? ‘Then, they would beat the rag-dolls on their bottoms with severe expressions.

  The adults paid no attention to this; their nerves were stretched to breaking point waiting for the rain to fall out of the sky. Nothing was important, beyond that. All their animals had been sold during the bad years to purchase food and of all their herd only two goats were left. It was the women of the family who finally broke down under the strain of waiting for rain.

  'Game of making house' means Options:
  A) building a house with sand
  B) being happy in the house
  C) playing in the house
  D) imitating running a home like adults
  E) playing hide-and-seek in the house
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 3586:

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

  It was too cold for him to go out?

  Options:
  A) He had a bad cold, and did not go out
  B) Althoughit was very cold, he still went out
  C) As it was very cold, he did not go out
  D) He was afraid to go out that day
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 3587: Choose the option opposite in meaning to the underlined word(s).What a harmless thought he has? Options:
  A) pericious
  B) pertinent
  C) pleasant
  D) perfect
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 3588: Choose the option that has a different consonant sound from the others. Options:
  A) wife
  B) of
  C) off
  D) laugh
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 3589: Choose the word that has a stress pattern on the first syllables. Options:
  A) July
  B) literate
  C) august
  D) oesophagus
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 3590:

  This question is based on the novel, The Life Changer.

  Omar had ______ credits in the WAEC examination

  Options:
  A) 9
  B) 5
  C) 8
  D) 7
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  The correct answer is D .