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

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• Question 1081:

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

  I don't think he can _____?

  Options:
  A) can't he
  B) isn't it
  C) can he
  D) don,t I
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1082: Select the option that best explains the information conveyed in the sentence. The police are looking for the woman who farmed her children out to her neighbours. Options:
  A) The police wanted the woman for allowing her children to destroy her neighbour's crops.
  B) The woman and her children are in the habit of working in neighbour's farms and the police are not well disposed to this
  C) The police may arrest the woman for allowing her heighbours to take care of her children.
  D) The woman may be arrested for allowing her children to be a nuisance to her neighbours
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1083:

  Choose the option that is nearest in meaning to the underlined word(s)
  After thousands of years of existing, elephants still remain extant.

  Options:
  A) subdued
  B) pulverized
  C) strong
  D) enduring
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1084:

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

  Our government is making determined efforts to eradicate illiteracy

  Options:
  A) compulsory
  B) ineffective
  C) innocent
  D) unreliable
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1085: Choose the option that best completes the gap(S).The Bank Manager assured us that there was nothing to worry about _____ ? Options:
  A) as regard to the loan
  B) with regard to the loan
  C) in regard of the loan
  D) with regards to the loan
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1086:

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

  Why do you worry about such _____ matters?

  Options:
  A) insignificant
  B) significant
  C) non-significant
  D) unsignificant
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1087: Choose the most appropriate option nearest in meaning to the underlined word(s).In my view, the play didn't come off? Options:
  A) succeed
  B) fail
  C) attract applause
  D) take place
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1088: In the question below choose the option nearest in meaning to the word or phrase underlined:A number or people impersonating tax-official were arraigned before the Chief Magistrate this morning Options:
  A) arranged
  B) paraded
  C) moved
  D) brought
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1089:

  It is customary nowadays among fashionable ladies and gentlemen to acquire strange and sometimes quaint cloths which are scarcely ever used. Sometimes it may be an approaching festival; sometimes a two hour ceremony and sometimes to honour a dead colleague – something triggers off the modern craze to sew new materials whose use does not outlast the moment of craze. And so, people who just occupy small apartments in their parents’ homes, or have rented one room in a densely – peopled house find that more than two- thirds of their rooms are filled with bongo trousers which they cannot wear, worn out jeans which stinks, or specially made clothes for occasions that are not recurrent.

  Although plagued by the problem of school fees for their children, parents have had to swallow their own phlegm and humour their children who need special clothes for important events. Newly employed youths soon find that their comrades getting married, and a new and special attire must be used to grace the occasion. University students see matriculation ceremonies or induction ceremonies into club membership as special reasons to make new attire which – you may be sure they would not wear on another occasion that parallels the one for which these clothes were made.

  Medical doctors may soon find another cause for the incidence of high blood pressure among the youth. The desire to acquire new clothes is one strong possible cause, but a more subtle one which haunts like a ghost is the problem of choice of what to wear. The youths have so stuffed their apartments, wardrobes, drawers and trunks with so many clothes that the greatest problem they face is the choice of what to wear.

  In this passage we learn that parents Options:
  A) admire their children's craze for new clothes
  B) do not provide the money for the fashion craze
  C) endure a lot of handship to provide for their children
  D) gladly provide the money for the fashion craze
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1090:

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

  The man drew a sword as people congregated round him?

  Options:
  A) praised
  B) gathered round
  C) mobbed
  D) fled from
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  The correct answer is D .