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

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• Question 3621:

  Choose the option nearest in meaning to the word or phrase underlined.

  We have every need to preserve some of our national monuments for posterity.

  Options:
  A) prosperity
  B) future
  C) national pride
  D) collective gain
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 3622: Choose the option opposite in meaning to the unerlined word(s).Idris gives me a sour look every time I pass by him? Options:
  A) bad
  B) satisfactory
  C) friendly
  D) sinister
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 3623:

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

  My father is a very prosperous businessman

  Options:
  A) ungrateful
  B) unscrupulous
  C) unskilful
  D) unsuccessful
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 3624: Choose the option that best complete the gap. The woman refused to testify ______ her husband. Options:
  A) From.
  B) In.
  C) At.
  D) Against.
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 3625:

  Choose the word that has an opposite meaning to the one in bracket for questions below.

  When it comes to playing the piano, I am a complete [ignoramus]

  Options:
  A) Idiot
  B) virtuoso
  C) novice
  D) nonentity
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 3626:

  My good people I come before you this evening as a man whose honesty and integrity have been questioned now, the usual political thing to do when charges are levelled against you is either to ignore them or to deny them without giving details, But before I answer any of your questions, let me state categorically that I have not touched a kobo of the #50,000 we contributed. Every kobo of it has been used in defraying political campaign expenses.

  Abu O. Abu is portrayed as Options:
  A) a corrupt politician
  B) the administrator of the fund
  C) an ordinary taxpayer
  D) a government official
  E) a citizen
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 3627: 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 3628:

  You all know how friendly we are with Okperi. Do you think that any Umuaro man who goes to prison there will come back alive? But that apart, do you forget that this is the moon of planting? Do you want to grow this year’s crops in the prison house in a land where your fathers owe a cow? I speak as your elder brother. I have travelled in Olu and I have travelled in Igbo and I can tell you that there is no escape from the white man. He has come when suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat left for him, he tells you not to worry because he has brought his own stool. The white man is like that. Before any of you here was old enough to tie a cloth between the legs I saw with my own eyes what the white man did to Abame. Then I knew there was no escape. As day light chases away darkness so will the white man drive away all our customs. I know that as I say it now it passes by your ears, but it will happen. The white man has power which comes from the true God and it burns like fire. This is the God about whom we preach every eighth day………..

  Unachukwu’s opponents were now shouting that this was a meeting of an age group that they had not assembled to join with him in chewing the seed of foolishness which they called their new religion.

  ‘We are talking about the white man’s road’ said a voice above the others.

  ‘Yes, we are talking about the white man’s road. But when the roof and walls of a house fall in, the ceiling is not left standing. The white man, the new religion, the soldiers, the new road-they are all part of the same thing. The white man has a gun, a machete, a bow and carries fire in his mouth. He does not fight with one weapon alone’.

  'There is no escape from the white man' in the passage means that the Options:
  A) white man will send the people to prison
  B) white man can kill all the people with his gun
  C) people are only trying to run away from the white man
  D) people must accept the white man
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 3629:

  choose the option nearly opposite in meaning to the word(s) underlined

  James found the photocopied material invaluable while preparing for the examination

  Options:
  A) Valuable
  B) worthwhile
  C) worthless
  D) important
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 3630:

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

  _____ to your birthday party in September?

  Options:
  A) May i come
  B) Will i come
  C) Would i come
  D) Might i come
  E) Shall i come
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  The correct answer is A .