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

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• Question 51:

  In the question below, choose the expression or word which best completes each sentence:

  The situation has deteriorated sharply and relations between the two countries may soon be _____

  Options:
  A) removed
  B) broken
  C) withdrawn
  D) eliminated
  E) deferred
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 52:

  Choose the word which is opposite in meaning to the underlined word in each sentence:

  My cousin is very lazy. He will not take his studies serious. His future looks quiet bleak

  Options:
  A) Cloudy
  B) Cheerless
  C) Bright
  D) Huge
  E) Sturdy
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 53: Choose the option nearest in meaning to the underlined word(s).Practicing medicine is not as lucrative as many people think? Options:
  A) know
  B) understand
  C) consider
  D) assume
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 54:

  I was to remember my first day at Freedom University for a long time. On arrival on campus, I expected to be met by some stale students (as was the practice in my secondary school) but every student around was new like myself. I asked the way to Grant Hall but not one could tell me. I asked a number of other questions about issues that bothered me, such as where and how to pay the fees, the way to the dining hall and so on but no help was forthcoming. So in the midst of so many people, I am all alone, I mused to myself. The prospect was not in the least cheerful and all the elation I had felt at gaining entry into a renowned university at sixteen been to disappear. Then so if propelled by an unknown benevolent force, I walked a little bit down the corridor in the direction of notice board at which some ten young men and women were peering. For want of something to do, I decided to stop and look at the notice board. Alas! I had opened on the key to all the riddles that had dribbled me since I set foot on campus that morning. On the board there was a big campus map in which I was able to locate Grant Hall and other places of interest, there were details of various activities lined up for the three days of orientation for freshmen and a comprehensive list of those offered admission into various courses. How blissful I felt to see the light of knowledge , having been wallowing in the darkness of ignorance. Even then I was not able to escape the thought that I could not be sure how much of the responsibility for the darkness was mine, the fact that something had not been done to draw attention to 5that apocalypse of the notice board had contributed clearly to my initial predicament. All that notwithstanding, I learnt from the incident an importance of reading notice boards and handbills if one is to be informed about places and events in the university.

  In the passage,'the darkness of ignorance' refers to the Options:
  A) state of the writer before he found the notice board
  B) ignorance of illiterates
  C) ignorance of those who have not been to university
  D) fact that he was a freshman
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 55: It is clear to me that you won't visit Okoro this holiday, will you?... Options:
  A) Yes, I wont
  B) Yes, I wiil visit
  C) No, I won't
  D) No, I will not visit
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 56:

  Choose the word/expression which best completes each sentence :

  The benefit one gets from watching plays _____ comparable to that found in taking a university course in drama

  Options:
  A) is
  B) was
  C) were
  D) are
  E) being
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 57:

  One day, Alan, a friend of mine, who likes country life, was fishing in a river, when he caught a trout. He tried to put fish in but it slipped off the hook, flew over his head and landed in a field behind him.

  Alan put down his rod, went through the gate and started searching for his trout. Some people, obviously from the city were having a picnic in the field. One of the men shouted. ‘What on earth are you doing? Thinking that it was a silly question because they could see how hews dressed, Alan replied ‘Fishing’.

  ‘Don’t be silly, the fish are down in the river’, answered the man, ‘Fish don’t live fields! He turned to his friends, laughing, thinking that he had made a good joke.

  Oh, but they do, ‘said Alan, They jump out of the river to look for flies and I catch them with my hands. At that moment he found his trout in the grass and picked it up and showed it to the picnickers. He put it in his basket and bent down, as if he was hunting for another one. The picnickers, no longer laughing, spent the rest of the day searching the field.

  Why did the fish land in the field? Options:
  A) it had wings
  B) it was a flying fish
  C) it was looking for food
  D) Alan pulled too hard
  E) it fell off the hook
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  The correct answer is E .
• Question 58:

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

  Musa asked Asmau what she …. Since, he last saw her.

  Options:
  A) Has been doing
  B) Had been doing
  C) Has done
  D) Was doing
  E) Might be doing
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 59:

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

  Akpan was able to douse the flames with the new piece of equipment?

  Options:
  A) reduce
  B) extinguish
  C) ignite
  D) reinforce
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 60:

  Choose the option nearest in meaning to the underlined word(s).

  Idris' forbearance endeared him to us.

  Options:
  A) hard work
  B) patience
  C) wisdom
  D) good manners
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  The correct answer is B .