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

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• Question 4011:

  For this question, choose the option opposite in meaning to the word or phrase in italics:

  Our son was highly active and exuberant

  Options:
  A) subdued
  B) fulsome
  C) lively
  D) bright
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 4012: Choose from the options nearest in meaning to the word underlined.The presence of the security men in the area will provide a moment of respite for the residents? Options:
  A) soothing relaxtion
  B) enduring reprieve
  C) lasting security
  D) tempoary relief
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 4013:

  Answer the following question below and select the option that best explains the information conveyed in the sentence.

  I wouldn't have responded to his rude talk, if l were you.

  Options:
  A) the advice was taken by the respondent so he did not respond to the talk
  B) the adviser put himself in the respondent's position, so he did not respond to the talk
  C) the respondent replied to the speaker's talk, althought he ought not have done so
  D) what was advisable was that the respondent gave it back to the speaker
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 4014:

  Choose the most appropriate option nearest in meaning to the underlined words.

  Smiling broadly, she explained why she always took exception to being referred to as his wife?

  Options:
  A) objected to
  B) preferred very much
  C) felt specially honoured by
  D) liked nothing except
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 4015:

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

  The protesters, unable to pull down the statue, _____ it form its fixtures?

  Options:
  A) wrenched
  B) pushed
  C) towed
  D) burnt
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 4016:

  Choose the option nearest in meaning to the underlined word.

  Participation in the programme is optional?

  Options:
  A) unnecessary
  B) recommended
  C) hard to justify
  D) a matter of choice
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 4017:

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

  After Jerry had made the bed, he _____ on it

  Options:
  A) layed
  B) laid
  C) lied
  D) lay
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 4018:

  After many weary weeks of matching . Nzinga and her attendants arrived at the white wall of Luanda. The guards at the city gates led them through the winding streets and up to the governor’s palace. A pompous courtier, sweating and dirty in his thick clothes ordered them to wait amongst a crowd of people who had come to beg favours of the governor.

  Nzinga waited patiently, ignoring this insult to her royal dignity. She knew that her chance would come. The hot sun beat down on the white walls of the palace, yet Nzinga stood straight and proud as the crowd of Portuguese merchants mopped their sweating faces with damp lace handkerchiefs.

  Much later the courtier came back. He knocked on the floor with his staff, and then announced in a loud voice, ‘His Excellency Joao Correia de Souza, the Governor in Angola of His Most Royal and Catholic Majesty, the king of Portugal’. The tired soldiers stood to attention and the courtiers and merchants bowed.

  Nzinga became very impatient. Was she to stand here like a servant all day, waiting for this man to make up his mind to hear her? She stepped forward, walked into the middle of the room and faced the governor. The guards and the courtiers were so amazed that they could o nothing but gasp in amazement at this boldness. ‘Well, ‘murmured one of the merchants to his neighbor. ‘Now she will learn what trouble is! Don Joao will be very angry. It is an insult to his dignity’. ‘What do you mean by this, asked the governor when he had recovered from his surprise. ‘Who are you? Come, woman, state your business!’

  But Nzinga was not afraid. In a clear, calm voice she answered him. ‘My first business is a chair,’ she said. The governor laughed. ‘What do you mean?’ he asked. ‘You are seated, ‘she replied, ‘And you are only a governor, a slave of your king. I am a princess and men do not sit where I stand. I will state my business seated!’

  But Nzinga had learnt the strength of her enemy. She knew that she was already winning this contest of wills. E

  Whatever happens now, this man would not think that she has been sent by a beaten people to beg favours. Without another word, she turned and made a sign to her maid. When the girl came to her, Nzinga ordered her to kneel down. Then, with a flash or triumph in her eyes, Nzinga sat down on the girl’s back, Nzinga got her treaty. Pride in herself and in her people had saved the day for the Mbundu.

  Why did Nzinga became very impatient? because Options:
  A) she was made to wait to see the governor
  B) she had to wait to the rear, instead of the middle of the room
  C) she was told she was an insult to Don Joao's dignity
  D) she was not offered a chair
  E) men were sitting in her presence
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 4019:

  Fill in the gap(s) with the most appropriate option from the list following the gap(s).

  The director, no less than his workers _____ to blame?

  Options:
  A) is
  B) are
  C) were
  D) ought
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 4020:

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

  That old lady prefers _____ bread _____ clothes.

  Options:
  A) to bake/than making
  B) to bake/ to making
  C) baking/to making
  D) baking/than to making
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  The correct answer is C .