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

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• Question 4101:

  Fill each gap with the most appropriate option from the list provided.
  We had to ..... the group headed by Taiwo.

  Options:
  A) sell out
  B) sell off
  C) sell up
  D) selled
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 4102:

  Choose the option opposite in meaning to the word(s) in italics.

  The manager commended the players for the narrow victory.

  Options:
  A) Difficult
  B) Unexpected
  C) Easy
  D) Expected
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 4103:

  For these questions, choose the option that best complete the gap(s):

  The officer________that he was not supposed to talk to the press on the matter.

  Options:
  A) could have known
  B) shall know
  C) should have known
  D) will know
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 4104: Fill each gap with the most appropriate option from the lists provided.The highly appreciative audience clapped _____. hands and showered ______ on the lecturer? Options:
  A) their /encomiums
  B) its / encomiums
  C) their / invectives
  D) its / invectives
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 4105:

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

  Our experience on board the aircraft is nothing to write home about

  Options:
  A) not remarkable
  B) not unpleasent
  C) nobody's business
  D) not a home affair
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 4106:

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

  The committee was disgusted _____ the way the office was being run

  Options:
  A) at
  B) by
  C) with
  D) over
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 4107:

  A wolf, seeing a lamb drinking from a river, wanted to find a pretext, for devouring him. He stood higher up the stream and accused the lamb of muddying the water so that he could not drink. The lamb said that he drank only with the tip of his tongue, and that in any case he was standing lower down the river, and could not possibly disturb the water higher up, ‘when this excuse failed him, the wolf said: ‘Well, last year you insulted my father .’I wasn’t even born then, ‘replied the lamb.

  You are good at finding answers, ‘said the wolf, ‘but what do you mean by taking up so much of the path where I am walking? The lamb, frightened at the wolf’s angry tone and terrible aspect, told him, with all due submission, that he could not conceive how his walking on such a wide path could occasion him any inconvenience. ‘What! Exclaimed the wolf, seemingly in great anger and indignation. ‘You are as impudent as your father who seized me by the throat last year, and caused me to be kept in a cage for three months.

  If you will believe me, ‘said the lamb, my parents are poor simple creatures who live entirely by green stuff; we are none of us hunters of your species. ‘Ah! I see it’s no use talking to you, ‘said the wolf, drawing up close to him. ‘it runs in the blood of your family to hate us wolves, and therefore, as we have come so conveniently together, I’ll just pay off a few of your forefathers scores before we part. ‘so saying he leapt at the lamb from behind and garrotted him.

  The expression angry tone and terrible aspect refers to the wolf's Options:
  A) sonorous voice and overbearing attitude
  B) towering size and thunderous voice
  C) harsh voice and menacing posture
  D) loud voice and fretting movement
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 4108:

  Questions below are based on Bolaji Abdullahi's "Sweet Sixteen"

  The fact that Aliya wanted to be a pilot, then a musician, a songwriter, doctor and later a lawyer points to the

  Options:
  A) need for parents to choose a befitting career for their children
  B) reason that only passion can define one's career
  C) indecision that comes with choosing a career at a tender age
  D) need for schools to make their syllabus career based
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 4109:

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

  One wonders if the situation will improve

  Options:
  A) brighten
  B) diminish
  C) disintegrate
  D) worsen
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 4110:

  Choose the option that best conveys the meaning of the underlined portion in the following sentence;

  He spoke with his heart in his mouth

  Options:
  A) courageously
  B) with such unusual cowardice
  C) with a lot of confusion in his speech
  D) without being able to make up his mind
  E) with fright and agitation
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  The correct answer is E .