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

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• Question 1561:

  He started his career as an ........ teacher

  Options:
  A) auxilary
  B) auxilliary
  C) auxiliary
  D) auxillary
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1562:

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

  I forgot to bring a pen with me. Would you, please _____ me yours

  Options:
  A) borrow
  B) loan
  C) provide
  D) lend
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1563:

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

  Who called the attention of the district head when it was discovered that Talle buys more than he could consume from the supermarket?

  Options:
  A) his friends
  B) the grocers
  C) His neighbors
  D) his colleagues
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1564:

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

  They are taught to value honour _______ their lives.

  Options:
  A) from
  B) in
  C) than
  D) above
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1565:

  This question is based on Chukwuemeka Ike's The Potter's Wheel.

  If you have not behold your chi in his stark nakedness, be prepared to do so as soon as you set foot in that man's house. Form the except above, whose house we being referred to ?

  Options:
  A) Teacher Zaccheus
  B) Mazi Okeke
  C) Mazi Laza
  D) Mazi Nwokike
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1566:

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

  He gave a painstaking account of his encounter with the ghost of his father?

  Options:
  A) sordid
  B) fearful
  C) half-hearted
  D) tender-hearted
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1567: The exercise must be done _____ possible Options:
  A) as quick as
  B) as quicker as
  C) as quickly as
  D) as most quick as
  E) as most quickly as
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1568:

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

  I've lived _____ this street _____ ten years.

  Options:
  A) at, since
  B) for, during
  C) on, for
  D) on ,from
  E) in, for
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  The correct answer is E .
• Question 1569:

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

  Your performance will improve if you _____ hard.

  Options:
  A) are practising
  B) practical
  C) would practice
  D) practise
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1570:

  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 the tip of his tongue and that in any case he was standing lower down the river, and could not possible disturb the water higher 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 answer' 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 garotted him. Adapted from Bennet. C.H(1978)

  The expression angry tone and terrible aspect refers to the wolf’s

  Options:
  A) sonorous voice and overbearing attitude
  B) towering size and thunderous voice
  C) loud voice and fretting movement
  D) harsh voice and menacing posture
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  The correct answer is D .