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

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• Question 1:

  Fill the blank spaces with the most appropriate of options A-E:

  If you _____ me that you had run out of petrol, i would have given you some.

  Options:
  A) were to tell
  B) tell
  C) have told
  D) would tell
  E) had told
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  The correct answer is E .
• Question 2:

  Choose the word or phrase from A to E which has the nearest meaning to the underlined word or words in each sentence :

  We all have both good and bad characteristics. Either is, however, easily manifested in time of crises.

  Options:
  A) Demanded
  B) Highlighted
  C) Submerged
  D) Demonstrated
  E) Ridiculed
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 3:

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

  Don't _____ said the leader 'I want a decision now?

  Options:
  A) prevaricate
  B) prediccate
  C) precipitate
  D) be pejorative
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 4: In the question below choose the option opposite in meaning to the word Underlined: His antipathy to religious ideas makes him unpopular Options:
  A) remedy
  B) conciousness
  C) hostility
  D) receptiveness
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 5:

  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 6:

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

  Attention has shifted to the teaching of science nowadays _____ the usefulness of the Arts

  Options:
  A) in spite of
  B) not minding
  C) oblivious to
  D) forgetting
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 7: Choose the option that best completes the gap(S).You, who _____ convicted, should appeal. Options:
  A) has been
  B) is
  C) was
  D) are
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 8:

  Choose the most appropriate stress pattern from the option. Conspiracy.

  Options:
  A) CONspiracy.
  B) conspiRAcy.
  C) conspiraCY
  D) conSPI racy.
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 9: Fill each of the gap with the appropriate option from the list following the the gap.Three-quarters of the church _____ painted by the members the previous day? Options:
  A) were
  B) was
  C) is
  D) are
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 10:

  Choose the option that best fills the gap.

  It has been confirmed that the election _____ held in July next year.

  Options:
  A) will be
  B) is being
  C) has been
  D) have being
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  The correct answer is A .