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

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• Question 781:

  Choose the option that best best completes the gap(s).

  The old man was rushed to hospital when his blood pressure dropped to a _____ level?

  Options:
  A) dangerously lowly
  B) dangerous lowly
  C) dangerously low
  D) dangerous low
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 782:

  Choose the option nearest in meaning to the underlined word.

  The doctor tried to soothe the patient before the operation?

  Options:
  A) examine
  B) treat
  C) calm
  D) induce
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 783:

  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.

  Alan made the picnickers believe that fish jump out of the river to look for flies by Options:
  A) telling a story
  B) finding his trout and showing it to them
  C) taking them down to the river
  D) watching how trout catch flies
  E) picking up a fish and looking for more
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 784: This question is based on the novel, The Life Changer.

  Who suggested the abduction of a boy?

  Options:
  A) Talle
  B) Zaki
  C) John
  D) Boki
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 785:

  The passage below has gaps numbered 16 – 25. Immediately following each gap, four options are provided. Choose the most appropriate option for each gap

  When a mother is afraid that her child would die when it has only a pimple or a slight headache, we speak of anxiety. But if she is afraid when the child has a serious illness, we call her reaction ….16…. [A. hysteria B. xenophobia C. fear D. foolish]. If someone is afraid whenever he stands on a height or when he has to discuss ….17…. [A. workshop B. a seminar C. a topic D. an exercise] he knows well, we call his reaction ….18…. [A. incompetence B. anxiety C. anger D. immaturity]; if someone is afraid when he loses his way high up the mountain during a heavy thunderstorm, we would seek of ….19…. [A trepidation B. ignorance C. depression D. apprehension]. Thus far, we have a simple and near distinction between the two, namely, one is a reaction that is proportionate to the danger one has to face whereas the other is ….20…. [A. an unrelated B. a dissimilar C. an equal D. an unparalleled] reaction to danger or even a reaction to ….21…. [A. imaginary B. unrealistic C. ominous D. unusual] danger. This distinction has one ….22…. [A. direction B. flavor C. flaw D. meaning], however, which is that the decision ….23…. [A as to B. as from C. as in D. as of] whether the reaction is proportionate depends on the average knowledge existing in the particular ….24…. [A. medium B. culture C. feature D. institution]. But, even if that knowledge proclaims a certain attitude to be unfounded, a neurotic will find no difficulty in giving his action a ….25…. [A. rational B. reactional C. proactive D. radical] foundation.

  In question number 17 above choose the best option from letters A- D that best complete the gap Options:
  A) workshop
  B) a seminar
  C) a topic
  D) an excercise
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 786:

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

  He is one of those who _____ in my school?

  Options:
  A) teaches
  B) is teaching
  C) are teaching
  D) teach
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 787: Choose the option that has the same consonant sound as the one represented by the letter underlined.lose Options:
  A) noise
  B) horse
  C) mouse
  D) Nurse
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 788:

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

  Bola takes _______ his father both in appearance and his manner.

  Options:
  A) On
  B) from
  C) after
  D) upon
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 789:

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

  The armed robbers who raided passengers on the Expressway came to grief when they had a shoot out with the police today

  Options:
  A) came to bad end
  B) became grieved
  C) encountered grief
  D) came to dead end
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 790:

  Select the option that best explains the information conveyed in the sentence.

  Mrs. Adamu does all her work with more haste, less speed.

  Options:
  A) She accept whatever she does with more haste and speed
  B) She approaches whatever she does hurriedly
  C) She addresses everything she does very quickly to avoid mistakes
  D) She does everything carefully to avoid mistakes
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  The correct answer is D .