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

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• Question 131:

  From the alternatives provided in the question below select the one which most appropriately completes the sentence:

  The boys are very naughty. They have started fighting again _____

  Options:
  A) haven't they?
  B) isn't it?
  C) not so?
  D) have they?
  E) is it?
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 132:

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

  The council chairman _____ the tension between the villagers and the tax collectors

  Options:
  A) dispersed
  B) defused
  C) difused
  D) disputed
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 133:

  Choose the most appropriate stress pattern from the options. The stressed are written in capital letters:

  Judiciary

  Options:
  A) judiCIAry
  B) judiciaRY
  C) JUdiciary
  D) juDIciary
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 134:

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

  The gallant solders met their waterloo unexpected

  Options:
  A) victory
  B) trouble
  C) defeat
  D) happiest period
  E) enemy
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 135:

  Developments in electronic science have transformed the art of record keeping to the modern age. Traditionally, records of events were kept only in people’s minds. It depends very much on the retentive power of the human memory. This was extremely dangerous as people either forgot events wholly or in part or deliberately falsified details to suit their various interests. Interminable arguments were thus order of the day. Even writing which replaced mental recording was not entirely free from these shortcomings as untruths could be written as true either willingly or inadvertently. With the advent of the electronic memory, however these dangers have been largely overcome. Recording on audio and video cassettes now show not what happened, but also who did or said what including how and when

  The writer believes that the art of record keeping has Options:
  A) improved over the years
  B) endangered the art of writing
  C) changed human memory
  D) overcome all the problems facing it
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 136:

  For this question, choose the option opposite in meaning to the word or phrase in italics:

  It is Iudicrous to suggest that she was a government agent.

  Options:
  A) odd
  B) exciting
  C) farcical
  D) sensible
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 137: In the question below choose the option nearest in meaning to the word or phrase underlined: What he received from the visitors was invaluable Options:
  A) priceless
  B) worthless
  C) valueless
  D) costly
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 138:

  In the question below choose the option opposite in meaning to the word in capital letters:

  He is loved for his ALTRUISM.

  Options:
  A) benevolence
  B) sincerity
  C) selfishness
  D) selflessness
  E) kindness
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 139:

  fill in the blank spaces in the following sentences making use of the best of the five options :

  A policeman stopped me and I ….to the police station.

  Options:
  A) Was taken
  B) Took
  C) Am taken
  D) Will be taken
  E) Walk
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 140:

  Choose the option nearest in meaning to the italicized words or expressions.

  The coach invited me to his office having found me mettlesome.

  Options:
  A) courageous
  B) hardworking
  C) hardhearted
  D) weak
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  The correct answer is A .