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

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• Question 3791: From the words lettered A to D, choose the word that rhymes with the given word.Worst Options:
  A) burst
  B) haste
  C) guessed
  D) perched
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 3792:

  choose the option that has the same vowel sound as the letter(s) underlined from the options lettered A-E

  Head

  Options:
  A) bead
  B) red
  C) rear
  D) stir
  E) heel
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 3793:

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

  If the armed robbers _____ caught, they would have been lynched.

  Options:
  A) would be
  B) have been
  C) are
  D) were
  E) had been
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  The correct answer is E .
• Question 3794:

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

  Osyaku started playing football because he thought it would develop him physically

  Options:
  A) took up football
  B) picked up football
  C) returned football
  D) took up with football
  E) put in for football
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 3795:

  In this question, select the option that best explains the information conveyed in the sentence.

  Though he is our elected representative, he often takes a rather jaundiced view of our problems.

  Options:
  A) He takes a rather hazy view of our problems
  B) He takes an unfavourable position concerning our problems
  C) He takes a rather forceful view of our problems
  D) He takes a sickly view of our problems
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 3796:

  Although our aim is to nurture healthy children, Nigerian children are still subjected to severe physical and mental stress as they develop.

  So far our interest and activities have been to ensure their physical well-being through the reduction of high mortality and morbidity rates, still inadequate as this may be. But we need to examine from time to time the other needs of the Nigerian child which will ensure a totally healthy development.

  We are split between two cultures – our traditional and the Western, a relic of our colonial past. This also affects our child-rearing practices. Therefore, these practices must have a very important bearing on how the child is prepared for our world of today so that he fits into our disturbed cultural milieu.

  Different styles of child-rearing and education can produce different personalities in terms of motivation, aggressiveness, achievement and integration of the individual into the community socially and culturally. It is important that, while we struggle with the visible organic disease, we fix our gaze on the other important measures to attain this end – a healthy child.

  The process of social adjustment begins from the moment of birth. Many of our traditional birth practices ensure that the mother either carries or suckles her child immediately after birth. The baby therefore comes into close contact with the mother at this critical time.

  Moreover she is forced to stay indoors with the baby for varying periods of time. By this means, the attachment of the baby to the mother, so essential for the child’s ability to relate to her in future is secured.

  This crucial moment in the baby’s life is now being recognized in the Western countries, whilst birth practices in some hospital and maternity homes separate mother and child immediately after birth to the extent that their ability to develop a close relationship may be jeopardized.

  Our Nigerian child of today may, therefore, be worse off than that of yesterday. As we move towards the training of our traditional birth attendants with a view to incorporating them into our health services, healthy practices such as the one described above must be maintained and encouraged

  Since the training for social adjustment begins from the moment of birth, our traditional practices Options:
  A) are too uncivilized to be helpful to the child
  B) need to be mordenized
  C) are very helpful to the proper growth of the child
  D) make the child a stranger to modern civilization
  E) are the cause of underdevelopment
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 3797:

  Fill each gap with the most appropriate option from the list provided.

  Adika _____ a message from the club regularly?

  Options:
  A) receives
  B) had received
  C) receive
  D) has received
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 3798:

  In the question below select the option that best explains the information conveyed in the sentence:

  The boys who rioted, were suspended by the principal

  Options:
  A) Only some of the boys rioted and they were suspended
  B) All the boys rioted and were suspended
  C) Many boys rioted and were suspended
  D) A few boys rioted and were suspended
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 3799:

  Farming is the most important aspect of agriculture that has attracted attention within the last few years. Agriculture has several other aspects like fishery, livestock and poultry. All these are also important in that they have to do with the production of food items which human beings consume for survival.

  In many parts of world today, farming has been regarded as the mainstay of the economy. Crops such as cocoa, rubber and cotton have been produced in such commercial quantity that they are sold to other countries. Some countries have a better comparative advantage in producing certain farm crops than other countries. In these other countries, there is the need to spend a lot of money on agriculture, particularly farming. Most farmers use outmoded tools. A lot of them have no place to store their crops, most of which are always destroyed by insects and pests before harvest time. All these have adverse effects on their productivity.

  The government can do a lot to help farmers. Farmers’ co-operative societies can be encouraged and loans can be made available to farmers through government institutions, like banks and finance corporations. Farmers can be taught how to build good storage structures for their produce. All these and a lot more can help to improve the condition of farming in these countries.

  Some countries produce more and better crops than others because the farmers in the former Options:
  A) are more educated
  B) have greater manpower
  C) have more modern equipment
  D) have more fertile land
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 3800:

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

  They _____ receive visitor on short notice

  Options:
  A) use to
  B) are used to
  C) used to
  D) are always
  E) are use to
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  The correct answer is C .