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

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• Question 1251:

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

  Last Tuesday, Ochonu asked me ______?

  Options:
  A) had I come yesterday
  B) did you come yesterday
  C) whether I had come before
  D) If i had come yesterday
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1252:

  In this question, fill each gap with the most appropriate option from the list provided.

  Without our relentless campaigns, we might ...... sure of victory in the race for the National Assembly.

  Options:
  A) be never
  B) never have been
  C) never had been
  D) have never be
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1253: Choose the option that has the same vowel sound as the one represented by the underlined letters.Roared? Options:
  A) towered
  B) coast
  C) brought
  D) rod
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1254:

  Choose the option that has the same vowel sound as the one represented by the letters(s). underlined.

  nine

  Options:
  A) pint
  B) gill
  C) pin
  D) click
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1255:

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

  The action was premeditated?

  Options:
  A) unnecessary
  B) catastrophic
  C) unplanned
  D) uncoordinated
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1256:

  This book consist of lectures given by me at Cambridge. Though they have been largely rewritten, I have kept a good deal of their original lecture-form, as being (I hope) rather less formal and less dogmatic. For to dogmatism, those who write on language seem, for some reason, particularly prone; and I should like to make clear at once that, if at times I have put my view strongly, I do not forget that such matters of taste must remain mere matters of opinion.

  In addition I have included a good many specimen passages from various authors. Perhaps I have quoted too much. But a book on style without abundant examples seems to me as ineffectual as a book on art, or biology without abundant illustrations. Many of these passages are in French. That may be Gallomanian on my part and I must apologize if they trouble some readers. But some ability to read French prose does seem to me most desirable for anyone who would write well in English. I have tried to choose pieces not too difficult in syntax or vocabulary. And in these days less than ever can we afford to be better insular.

  In the author's opinion, a book on style Options:
  A) can do with few examples
  B) need not have any examples
  C) is a book on art
  D) will be intellectual with many examples
  E) will be ineffectual with insufficient examples
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  The correct answer is E .
• Question 1257:

  In the question below, fill the gap with the most appropriate option:

  Wudu will not come _____ she is asked

  Options:
  A) after
  B) provided
  C) unless
  D) because
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1258:

  Choose the option nearest in meaning to the word underlined.

  The chairman advised the participants to follow convention in stating their points?

  Options:
  A) eloquence
  B) advice
  C) prudence
  D) tradition
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1259:

  In the question below select the option that best explains the information conveyed in the sentence:

  The boys who rioted, were suspended by the principal

  Options:
  A) Only some of the boys rioted and they were suspended
  B) All the boys rioted and were suspended
  C) Many boys rioted and were suspended
  D) A few boys rioted and were suspended
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1260: Choose the option that best completes the gap(s).He isn't coming home, is he? _____ he isn't Options:
  A) yes
  B) no
  C) why
  D) now
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  The correct answer is B .