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

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• Question 121:

  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.

  Seat

  Options:
  A) hide
  B) peasant
  C) head
  D) people
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 122:

  In the question below choose the word or phrase which best fills the gap in each sentence:

  The thief ran .. luck when the policeman running after him caught up with him and knocked him down

  Options:
  A) into
  B) with
  C) of
  D) out of
  E) off
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 123:

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

  The first graduation ceremony of the university was attended by men from all _____ of life

  Options:
  A) works
  B) areas
  C) walks
  D) parts
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 124:

  In the question below choose the option nearest in meaning to the word(s) or phrase(s) underlined:

  The patient disregarded the advice of the doctor

  Options:
  A) ignored
  B) disobeyed
  C) questioned
  D) respected
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 125:

  complete the statement from the options lettered A-D

  The meeting was organised at _______ instance ?

  Options:
  A) whom
  B) whose's
  C) whose
  D) whom's
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 126: Choose the option that best complete the gap. The house and the senate will at noon next Wednesday, _________ to hear a special address by the president. Options:
  A) Collude.
  B) Convene.
  C) Adjourn.
  D) Rise.
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 127:

  The preparation which a study of the humanities can provide stems from three observations about education in our world of accelerating social and technological change. First, with the rate of change, we cannot hope to train our student for specific technologies. That kind of vocational education is obsolescent. By the time the specific training will have been completed, the world will have moved on.

  If our education consists of narrow training, we will not be prepared to change. Second and paradoxically, what our student desire from their education is preparation for specific careers – business, engineering, medicine, computer programming and the like, but we will not be able to train them for a life-long career. Their confronting the depressed job market gives our students a certain anxiety, but the solution they seek in vocational training is not sufficient. Third, we sense in our students a narrow materialism, with the good life defined in terms of material comforts. Education then means learning to do a job which will make money. I see in this definition a limiting sense of what education and thus life offer, a definition which excludes joy and meaning. Our narrow approach to the study of the humanities responds to these three related problems. In our changing, yet narrow world, the teaching of the humanities finds one powerful justification – it teaches student how to think.

  'Our world of accelerating social and technological change' means that Options:
  A) our world is moving too fast socially and technologically
  B) our world is going through more rapid, social and technological change
  C) the social and technological change is more exhilarating than before
  D) the social and technological change is accelerating our world
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 128:

  Choose the most appropriate option opposite in meaning to the underlined word.

  Good student can easily identify spurious arguments?

  Options:
  A) genuine
  B) interesting
  C) false
  D) illogical
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 129:

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

  I shall travel to Lagos by …. next week.

  Options:
  A) Air or with lorry
  B) Aircraft or by road
  C) Airways or by bus
  D) Air or by road
  E) Flight or by bus
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 130:

  This question is from the novel 'The Last Days at Forcados High school'.

  Who laugh in such a way that showed only his upper teeth?

  Options:
  A) Seyi Lawal
  B) Ansa boy
  C) Kemi
  D) Wole
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  The correct answer is D .