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

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• Question 81: Select the word that has the same pattern of stress as given word.HONOUR? Options:
  A) hotel
  B) hyena
  C) human
  D) humane
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 82:

  Fill in the blank spaces in the following sentences making use of the best of the five options :

  My younger brother looked ill last night, and was evidently ______ this morning

  Options:
  A) Worse
  B) Worst
  C) More ill
  D) Learner
  E) Brighter
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 83:

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

  If you would do me this favour, I ______ be very grateful?

  Options:
  A) should
  B) would
  C) shall
  D) will
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 84:

  Complete each of the following sentences by choosing the option that most suitably fills the space;

  Last week the _____ at the theater was the longest i had ever seen

  Options:
  A) assembly
  B) congregation
  C) convention
  D) audience
  E) crowd
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 85: Select the word that has the same pattern of stress as given word.QUALITY? Options:
  A) guarantee
  B) accepted
  C) bachelor
  D) related
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 86:

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

  I would like to like to believe that this brilliant performance of yours is not just a flash in the pan

  Options:
  A) repeated occurrence
  B) normal happening
  C) flashy happening
  D) chance occurrence
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 87:

  Choose the option that complete the gap(s).

  The team has benefited from the coach's _____ of experience?

  Options:
  A) minefield
  B) reservoir
  C) wealth
  D) world
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 88:

  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.

  Where was Alan looking for his fish? He was looking for the fish Options:
  A) in the grass
  B) down in the river
  C) in front of the gate
  D) in his basket
  E) among the picnickers
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 89:

  Choose the option nearest in meaning to the underlined words :

  Most of his observations were wide of the mark

  Options:
  A) comprehensive
  B) irrelevant
  C) pertinent
  D) came rather late
  E) unacceptable
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 90:

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

  I shuddered in revulsion as i watched the snake slowly swallow the struggling rat?

  Options:
  A) was fascinated
  B) was repelled
  C) was interested
  D) was distressed
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  The correct answer is B .