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

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• Question 1:

  Answer the following question below , the word in capital letters has the emphatic stress. Choose the option to which the given sentence relates.

  The traditional chief NARRATED the story to the children

  Options:
  A) the children heard the story from the traditional chief
  B) who narrated the story to the children?
  C) the children could not listen to the story by the traditional chief
  D) did the chief hide the story from the children?
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 2:

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

  Ogiri takes after his father, he fawns upon anyone with influence.

  Options:
  A) Like his father, Ogiri likes to flatter people with influence in society
  B) Like his father, Ogiri hates influential people
  C) Ogiri, who always follows his father, tries to act an influential man
  D) Ogiri, who looks like his father, follows rich and influential people about
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 3:

  Choose the option nearest n meaning to the word or phrase underlined.

  Emeka's painting was so realistic that it could almost have been a photograph.

  Options:
  A) picturesquare
  B) concrete
  C) lively
  D) authentic
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 4:

  In the question below choose the option opposite in meaning to the word(s) Underlined:

  The man's health has deteriorated in the hospital

  Options:
  A) collapsed
  B) improved
  C) worsened
  D) revived
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 5:

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

  My _____ is for you to refuse the _____ of the wicked?

  Options:
  A) advise / advice
  B) advice / advice
  C) advice / advise
  D) advise / advise
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 6: Choose the option that has the same vowel sound as the one represented by the letter underlined. Palm. Options:
  A) Plait.
  B) Ranch.
  C) Florid.
  D) Launch.
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 7:

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

  I missed the match though it was shown on television on two _____ nights.

  Options:
  A) concurrent
  B) consistent
  C) concrete
  D) consecutive
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 8:

  In question below fill the gap with the appropriate option:

  Ahmed is one of the boys who always _____ good work

  Options:
  A) does
  B) would do
  C) do
  D) done
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 9:

  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 10: Fill each of the gap with the appropriate option from the list following the the gap.The class _____ more girls than boys this session? Options:
  A) comprised of
  B) comprises of
  C) comprise
  D) comprises
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  The correct answer is D .