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

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• Question 851: Choose the option that best complete the gap. He went to the restaurant to enjoy the special _____. Options:
  A) Chef.
  B) Suite.
  C) Cuisine.
  D) A la carte.
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 852:

  Choose the option that complete the gap(s).

  I _____ to pursue my education?

  Options:
  A) did not chance
  B) did not have the opportunity
  C) was not chanced
  D) was not opportuned
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 853:

  The words in capital letter have the emphatic stress. Choose the options to which the given sentences relate.
  I bought my WIFE a red dress

  Options:
  A) Did I buy my husband a red dress?
  B) Did I buy my wife a red shoe?
  C) Did he buy my wife a red dress?
  D) Did I buy my wife a black dress?
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 854:

  In the question below, choose the option nearest in meaning to the underlined:

  Ike is head over heels in love with Ngozi. This means that

  Options:
  A) Ike is friendly with Ngozi
  B) Ike is trying to fall in love with Ngozi
  C) Ngozi fell on Ike's heel and both of them fell in love
  D) Ike is madly in love with Ngozi
  E) none of the above
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 855:

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

  The panel's _____ was stretched to the limit by what they heard?

  Options:
  A) credit
  B) credence
  C) credibility
  D) credulity
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 856: Fill each of the gap with the appropriate option from the list following the the gap.A university teacher is an _____ ? Options:
  A) academic
  B) academics
  C) academician
  D) academia
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 857: Select the option that best explains the information conveyed in the sentence.Many workers are not happy because they live a hand-to-mouth life. Options:
  A) They work hard with their hands.
  B) They are voracious and avaricious.
  C) They are barely surviving.
  D) They have rejected the use of spoons.
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 858:

  The earthly paradises of Bali and of the South Sea Islands, and the gentle, non-acquisitive civilization of Burma, have been aptly described and romanticized. One can add to then the Nicobar Islands, where a small population lived happily on a very low cultural level. But perhaps the most remarkable and the least known of these earthly paradise is the small kingdom of Hunza in the Himalayas, which was recently visited and enthusiastically described by the journalist, Noel Barber (Daily Mail, 5, 6, 8 June 1962). A fair-skinned population of 18,000, they lived in a fertile and almost inaccessible valley not far from the Sinking boarder, 8,000 feet up. A legend has it that they are the descendants of the three deserters from the army of Alexander the Great, who here with Persian wives which makes one inclined to believe that pacifism may be hereditary , because these people had no war in 2,000 years. They have no money, no crime and no diseases, they rarely die before ninety. Their psychosomatic control is almost unbelievable, childbirth is painless, and toothache, a joke; they keep their numbers stationary without contraceptives, and without abortion, but by sheer abstinence, though Noel; Barber saw the newborn son of a chuckling father aged eighty-nine. Their diet which consists of mostly apricot and raw vegetables may have something to do with their unshakable serenity. It makes one gasp with surprise that human nature can be like this. One is reminded of Huxley’s Island, but unlike the Palanese, the Hunza people have no art, only serenity!

  Why is toothache a joke in Hunza Options:
  A) it provdes so much fun for the people
  B) they joke to relieve its pain
  C) because they have no cure for it, it is better to joke about it
  D) civilized people must joke when they have toothache
  E) toothache is unkown
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  The correct answer is E .
• Question 859:

  Answer the following question, choose the option nearest in meaning to the word or phrase underlined:

  The athlete is proud to be in the vanguard of sports development.

  Options:
  A) leading position
  B) destructive position
  C) emerging position
  D) unforgettable position
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 860: The word in capital letter has the emphatic stress. choose the option in which the given sentence relates. AMINA went to Abuja by air. Options:
  A) Did Amina go to Jos by air?
  B) Is Amina going to Abuja by air?
  C) Who went to Abuja by air?
  D) Did Amina go to Abuja by road?
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  The correct answer is C .