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

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• Question 3611:

  Choose the option that complete the gap(s).

  When they examined his body, they found that he _____ ?

  Options:
  A) had been dead
  B) had been dying
  C) died
  D) was dead
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 3612:

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

  The new trade agreement should facilitate _____ .

  Options:
  A) more economic rapid growth
  B) economic more rapid growth
  C) rapid economic more growth
  D) more rapid economic growth
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 3613: Choose the option nearest in meaning to the underlined word or phrase. The lazy man cast a lustful glance at his neighbour's wife. Options:
  A) Envious.
  B) Hateful.
  C) Quick.
  D) Covetous.
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 3614:

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

  I wonder how much _____

  Options:
  A) cost these earrings
  B) do these earrings cost
  C) are these earrings costing
  D) these earrings cost
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 3615:

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

  Chike, who plays in the first eleven, is an expert …. dribbling

  Options:
  A) For
  B) By
  C) At
  D) With
  E) On
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 3616:

  In the question below choose the option opposite in meaning to the word underlined:

  The debtor's husband is liable for his wife's debts

  Options:
  A) unanswerable
  B) responsible
  C) unquestionable
  D) accountable
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 3617:

  Choose the option nearest in meaning to the underlined words :

  His summary of the meeting was brief and to the point

  Options:
  A) careful
  B) precise
  C) accurate
  D) exact
  E) crucial
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 3618:

  Choose the word with the same vowel sound as the one in bracket

  Cacoph[o]ny

  Options:
  A) Sole
  B) sun
  C) scissors
  D) comb
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 3619:

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

  On such an important ….all the guests were expected to be at their best.

  Options:
  A) Occassion
  B) Occasion
  C) Ocassion
  D) Ocasion
  E) Occation
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 3620:

  The earthly paradises of Bali and of the South Sea Islands, and the gentle, non-acquisitive civilization of Burma, have been aptly described and romanticized. One can add to then the Nicobar Islands, where a small population lived happily on a very low cultural level. But perhaps the most remarkable and the least known of these earthly paradise is the small kingdom of Hunza in the Himalayas, which was recently visited and enthusiastically described by the journalist, Noel Barber (Daily Mail, 5, 6, 8 June 1962). A fair-skinned population of 18,000, they lived in a fertile and almost inaccessible valley not far from the Sinking boarder, 8,000 feet up. A legend has it that they are the descendants of the three deserters from the army of Alexander the Great, who here with Persian wives which makes one inclined to believe that pacifism may be hereditary , because these people had no war in 2,000 years. They have no money, no crime and no diseases, they rarely die before ninety. Their psychosomatic control is almost unbelievable, childbirth is painless, and toothache, a joke; they keep their numbers stationary without contraceptives, and without abortion, but by sheer abstinence, though Noel; Barber saw the newborn son of a chuckling father aged eighty-nine. Their diet which consists of mostly apricot and raw vegetables may have something to do with their unshakable serenity. It makes one gasp with surprise that human nature can be like this. One is reminded of Huxley’s Island, but unlike the Palanese, the Hunza people have no art, only serenity!

  The civilization of Buma and Nicobar Island are Options:
  A) alike because both are romantisized
  B) alike because both operate at low cultural levels
  C) alike because one is gentle and non-aquisistive and the other operates at a low cultural level
  D) not alike because Buma has been described but the Nicobar Island have not
  E) not alike because the Nicobar Islands have a smallpopulation, and Buma has a large population
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  The correct answer is C .