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

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• Question 1571:

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

  I know i _____ read more, but i am tired

  Options:
  A) may
  B) ought to
  C) would
  D) could
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1572:

  Choose the option nearest n meaning to the word or phrase underlined.

  The manager described Mfon as a man of vehement character

  Options:
  A) weak and interesting
  B) strong and insistent
  C) troublesome and noisy
  D) clever and helpful
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1573:

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

  The director's remark was extremely apposite to the shrine.

  Options:
  A) collected
  B) overwhelmed
  C) embarrased
  D) astonished
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1574:

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

  _____ yet about the principal?

  Options:
  A) Are there any news
  B) Are there some news
  C) Is there any news
  D) Is their any news
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1575:

  Complete each of the following sentences by choosing the option that most suitably fills the space;

  If this had happened to you, what _____?

  Options:
  A) would you do
  B) have you done
  C) would you have done
  D) will you do
  E) would you be doing
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1576: We have to iron out our difference at once? Options:
  A) We must clear up without delay our misunderstanding
  B) We must ensure that our problems are eminated at all cost
  C) We have to settle our disagreement once and for all
  D) We have to solve some of our problems for now
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1577:
  Read the passage and answer the question that follows

  It was a Sunday afternoon that I saw the lorry standing in front of the post office. I had seen it long before my brother saw it, but it was he who said to me “Don’t you think it odd that the post office should be open this afternoon? What do you think is happening? ‘Come round the corner, out of sight, and let’s watch’, I answered. My brother Michael was younger than me, so I kept him behind me, and peering round the corner told him what I saw. ‘There are four men coming out, carrying a very heavy box’ ‘Oh! I exclaimed. ‘It’s a safe, ‘I think they’re burglars, said my brother who was full of suspicion. ‘One of them has fallen over ‘I said; ‘the safe is too heavy for them’. You go and fetch the police said my brother, ‘and I’ll stay here and watch,’ ‘No you go and get them’, I replied, because I wanted to see what was going to happen. My brother ran off and then, suddenly, a man came running out of the post office, shouting, ‘Hurry! Hurry! Get it on the lorry!’ He joined the first four and they managed to get the safe up on to the back of the lorry. When they had done this, the man who had shouted got into the driver’s seat, but the lorry would not start. Just then my brother came back with three policemen. To cut a long story short, the men were all arrested and my brother and I had to go and give evidence before a magistrate. The men went to prison, of course, in the end, but you should have seen the face of the leader - it was contorted with rage – when he learned that the safe they had managed to steal was empty, and all the money was in the bank.

  The robbers could not escape because Options:
  A) the safe was too heavy
  B) they were sinners who deserve punishment
  C) the engine of their lorry failed
  D) they were not smart enough
  E) Nemesis wanted to catch up with them
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1578: Choose the word that has a different stress pattern from the others. Options:
  A) release
  B) exit
  C) exchange
  D) explode
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1579: Some robbers are on the prowl, we must be _____ ? Options:
  A) alert
  B) at alert
  C) on the alert
  D) for alert
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1580:

  Choose the word or phrase from options A - E which has the nearest in meaning to the underlined word or words in each sentences:

  John must be happy today

  Options:
  A) I am sure John is happy today
  B) John is happy today
  C) I hope John is happy today
  D) It is possible John is Happy today
  E) Jonh maybe happy today
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  The correct answer is A .