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

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• Question 31: Choose the option that has the same stress on the first syllable. Options:
  A) insult (noun)
  B) prepare
  C) provoke
  D) pronounce
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 32:

  In the question below choose the most appropriate option nearest in meaning to the word(s) or phrase(s) underlined:

  The principal warned us against burning candle at both ends

  Options:
  A) being careless with candle
  B) wearing ourselves out
  C) being too generous
  D) disloyal
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 33:

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

  Aduke: Ngozi, let's visit the market. Ngozi: if you insist, Ngozi

  Options:
  A) is very willing to accompany Aduke
  B) must accompany Aduke
  C) is not keen on going with Aduke
  D) is pretending not to be interested in going with Aduke
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 34:

  Choose the option nearest in meaning to the underlined words :

  The clerk refused to answer for the mistake made by the manager and his assistants

  Options:
  A) to reply to
  B) to give an answer
  C) to explain
  D) to accept responsibility
  E) to account for
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 35:

  Boxing is sometimes called' the noble art of self defence'. According to some people, boxing appeals to the lowest instincts in the ...11... who have come to watch blood flow and their fellow human suffer Boxers who are medically fit appear in the ...12... The referee sometimes allows the...13... to go on for long so that one of the ...14... is reduced to a human punch bag.It may happen that the boxers are not well ...15... one being much stronger than the other, as a result of which he so much...16... his opponent that he wins ...17... Many boxers have suffered permanent brain...18... in the ...19... of punches that have been thrown at them during their ...20...

  Choose the most appropriate option for the gap labelled [...18...] above. Options:
  A) drain
  B) fatigue
  C) damage
  D) sprain
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 36:

  From the list of words or group of wordslettered A to D, choose the one that is mostnearest opposite in meaning to the underlined word or group of words and that will, at the same time correctly fill in the gap in the sentence.

  Our mechanised services contrast sharply with the _________ operative we had before

  Options:
  A) electrical
  B) controlled
  C) original
  D) manual
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 37:

  When Thomas Jefferson wrote in the American Declaration of independence that ‘all men are created equal’, he was not seeking to describe men’s endowments, but their political and legal rights. He was not saying that men do not differ from one another in the powers and dimensions of their bodies, minds and characters. He was asserting that despite variations and differences, they all possessed the right to equal political and legal treatment. We must however, ask of what real values are political and legal equality to a man who has no bread to eat , no clothes to wear, no roof to shelter him, no chance to earn a livelihood? What we understand as a democratic society must provide for its citizen’s minimum status protection in his deprivation, losses and fears.

  In our time, the nations of the democratic world have installed elaborate system of social security and welfare, ranging from compensation for industrial accidents to subsidize housing, unemployment insurance, old age pension, psychiatric care and national health services. It is encouraging that the democratic nations are making a serious effort to provide against the characteristic losses and disasters of human life.

  The evolving status of the Negro in America is attracting the attention of the champions of equality. Much has been written on the wrongs, injustice and inequalities of the coloured citizen of the USA and much remains to be said because the history of this struggle for human rights is still unfolding.

  According to the passage, a democratic nation is one which Options:
  A) arranges welfare packages for every citizen
  B) absorbs the negro into its political structure
  C) grants equality to citizens
  D) ensures soci-political and legal equality for every citizen
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 38:

  Fill the gap with the most appropriate option from the list following the gap.

  She usually works hard, but _____ she could be very lazy?

  Options:
  A) at times
  B) atimes
  C) attimes
  D) at time
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 39:

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

  We surely ought to have an _____ arrangement in case somebody discovers the presents strategy

  Options:
  A) alternate
  B) alternating
  C) alternative
  D) alternant
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 40: Select the wrongly spelt word from the options below: Options:
  A) occurences
  B) surprise
  C) personnel
  D) possess
  E) curiosity
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  The correct answer is A .