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

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• Question 971:

  Choose the best option to fill the gaps in the following sentences:

  I am travelling by the 6:30 train tomorrow morning. Will you _____ me _____ ?

  Options:
  A) see/off
  B) look/up
  C) take/down
  D) see/to
  E) put/up
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 972:

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

  When the soldiers saw that resistance was _____ they stopped fighting?

  Options:
  A) inadequate
  B) inefficient
  C) futile
  D) successful
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 973: Choose the word that has a stress pattern on the first syllables. Options:
  A) bachelor
  B) forget
  C) cement
  D) ago
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 974:

  What is the typical condition of the poor in developing countries? Their work opportunities are so limited that they cannot work their way out of their situation. They are under-employed, or totally unemployed. When the do find occasional work, their productivity is extremely low. Some of them have land, but often too little land. Many have no land, and no prospect of ever getting any. There is no hope for them in the rural areas, and so the drift into the big cities. But there is no work for them in big cities either - and of course no housing. All the same, they flock into the cities because their chances of finding some work appear to be greater than in the villages - where such chances are nil. Rural unemployment, then producers mass migration into the cities. Rural unemployment becomes urban unemployment.

  The problem can be stated quite simply: what can be done to promote economic growth in the small towns and villages which still contains about eighty ninety per cent of the population? The primary needs is work, places, literally millions of work places. No one, of course, would suggest that output per worker, it must be to maximize work opportunities for the unemployed and the under-employed The poor man greatest need is the chance to work. Even poorly paid and relatively unproductive work is better than no work at all. It is therefore important that everybody should produce something, than that a few people should each produce a great ideal. And in most developing countries , this can only be achieved by using an appropriate technology.

  According to the passage, the difference between the developing countries and the developed ones is that while the former have? Options:
  A) a modern sector, the latter do not
  B) two conflicitng sector, the latter have one
  C) higher rural unemployment, the latter have higher urban unemployment
  D) appropriate intermediate technology, the latter adopt
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 975:

  Pick out the option with a different rhyme

  Options:
  A) Roar
  B) Four
  C) Growl
  D) Bore
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 976:

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

  The nurse kept apologizing to mothers as she stuck her needle _____ every baby at the clinic

  Options:
  A) in
  B) onto
  C) on to
  D) into
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 977:

  This question is based on Chukwuemeka Ike's The Potter's Wheel.

  Obu dashed out of the school building because

  Options:
  A) His teacher wanted to flog him
  B) He came top of standard 1,
  C) His teacher sent him on an errand
  D) He was given a prize by the headmaster
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 978:

  Choose the option nearest in meaning to the underlined.

  Ayodeji is an ardent supporter of education for the child.

  Options:
  A) cogent
  B) a passionate
  C) an ignorant
  D) an optimistic
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 979:

  This question is based on Chukwuemeka Ike's The Potter's Wheel.

  Uke was conscripted into the military because

  Options:
  A) He was a social nuisance
  B) He loved the British soldiers
  C) His grandfather was a military man
  D) He wanted to travel to Burma
  E) He wanted to travel to
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 980:

  In each of this question choose the option opposite in meaning to the word or phrase underlined:

  The girl took a cursory glance at the letter and hid it.

  Options:
  A) Concise
  B) Brief
  C) Lasting
  D) Sententious
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  The correct answer is C .