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

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• Question 91:

  Choose the option opposite in meaning to the underlined word(s).

  His father surmounted the myriad of obstacles on his way.

  Options:
  A) most
  B) few
  C) all
  D) many
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 92:

  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 93:

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

  On getting to the seashore, _____

  Options:
  A) it was empty
  B) nobody was there
  C) people had deserted the place
  D) he found nobody there
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 94:

  Choose the option nearest in meaning to the underlined word(s).

  A few years ago, nobody would have believed that the economy would turn around?

  Options:
  A) change
  B) deteriorate
  C) improve
  D) stagnate
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 95:

  From the words lettered A to D, choose the word that has the same vowel sound as the one represented by the underlined letters or letters underlined.

  Pass

  Options:
  A) earth
  B) clerk
  C) pass
  D) man
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 96:

  This question is based on "The Life Changer" novel.

  What were Ummi's children waiting for when Bint narrates her encounter with Mr. Salihu?

  Options:
  A) Their father
  B) Lesson Teacher
  C) Dinner
  D) Arabic Teacher
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 97:

  A wolf, seeing a lamb drinking from a river, wanted to find a pretext, for devouring him. He stood higher up the stream and accused the lamb of muddying the water so that he could not drink. The lamb said that he drank only with the tip of his tongue, and that in any case he was standing lower down the river, and could not possibly disturb the water higher up, ‘when this excuse failed him, the wolf said: ‘Well, last year you insulted my father .’I wasn’t even born then, ‘replied the lamb.

  You are good at finding answers, ‘said the wolf, ‘but what do you mean by taking up so much of the path where I am walking? The lamb, frightened at the wolf’s angry tone and terrible aspect, told him, with all due submission, that he could not conceive how his walking on such a wide path could occasion him any inconvenience. ‘What! Exclaimed the wolf, seemingly in great anger and indignation. ‘You are as impudent as your father who seized me by the throat last year, and caused me to be kept in a cage for three months.

  If you will believe me, ‘said the lamb, my parents are poor simple creatures who live entirely by green stuff; we are none of us hunters of your species. ‘Ah! I see it’s no use talking to you, ‘said the wolf, drawing up close to him. ‘it runs in the blood of your family to hate us wolves, and therefore, as we have come so conveniently together, I’ll just pay off a few of your forefathers scores before we part. ‘so saying he leapt at the lamb from behind and garrotted him.

  The charges levelled against the lamb are Options:
  A) greed, wandering, insolence and disrespect
  B) exuberance, pollution, wickedness and stubbornness
  C) garrulity, loquacity, pride and arrogance
  D) pollulation, insolence, obstruction and aggression
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 98: This question is based on the novel, The Life Changer.

  Ummi is translated in Arabic as _____?

  Options:
  A) my mentor
  B) my mother
  C) my morning star
  D) my muse
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 99:

  In the question below, choose the expression or word which best completes each sentence:

  The School Board has placed an order for _____

  Options:
  A) all the furnitures and equipments required in the new schools
  B) all the furniture and equipment required in the new schools
  C) all of the furniture and equipments required in the new school
  D) many of the furnitures and equipment required in the new school
  E) many of the furnitures and equipments required in the new schools
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 100:

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

  Even though Susan was the last in the examination, her result wasn't too different from what had been expected.

  Options:
  A) Her result was poor
  B) Her result was a dissapointment
  C) Her result was as expected
  D) She had not been serious with her studies
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  The correct answer is C .