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

English is the study of the English language. The goal is to improve communication skills by practicing listening, speaking, reading, writing, and understanding language rules like pronunciation, vocabulary, and grammar.

• Question 1591:

  Choose the option that best fills the gap.

  The trader complained that he _____ robbed.

  Options:
  A) had been
  B) has been
  C) was being
  D) is being
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1592: Choose the option opposite in meaning to the underlined word(s).Had I known about their plan much earlier I would have nipped it in the bud? Options:
  A) stopped it
  B) intiated it
  C) squashed it
  D) promoted it
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1593:

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

  Emeka's painting was so realistic that it could almost have been a photograph.

  Options:
  A) picturesquare
  B) concrete
  C) lively
  D) authentic
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1594:

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

  The notice reads, 'No cash translations in this hall'?

  Options:
  A) money
  B) gainful
  C) business
  D) cheque
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1595:

  If our thoughts is to be clear and we are to succeed in communicating it to other people, we must have some method of fixing the meaning of the words we use. When we use a word whose meaning is not certain, we may well be asked to define it. There is a usual traditional device for doing this by indicating the class to which whatever is indicated by the term belongs and also other particular property which distinguishes it from all other members of the same class. Thus we may define a whale as a ‘marine animal that spouts’. ‘Marine animals’ in this definition indicates the general class to which the whale belongs and ‘spouts’ indicates the particular property that distinguishes whales from other such marine animals as fishes, seals, jellyfish and lobsters. In the same way, we can define an even number as a finite integer divisible by two or a democracy as a system of government in which the people themselves rule.

  there are other ways, of course of indicating the meaning of words. We may for example, find it hard to make a suitable definition of the word ‘animal’, as we say that an animal is such a thing as a rabbit, dog fish or goat. Similarly, we may say that religion is such a system as Christianity, Islam, Judaism and Buddhism. This way of indicating the meaning of a term by enumerating examples of what it includes is obviously of limited usefulness. If we indicate our use of the word ‘animal’ as above, our hearers might for example be doubtful whether a sea-anemone or a slug was to be included in the class of animals. It is however, a useful way of supplementing a definition if the definition itself id definite without being easily understandable. Failure of an attempt at definition to serve its purpose may result from giving as distinguishing mark one which either does not belong to all the things the definition id intended to include, or does belong to some members of the same general class which the definition is intended to exclude.

  Which of the following statements can be deduced from the passage? Options:
  A) definition aid communication when enumeration is accurately handled
  B) accurate definition is invalvable to communication but difficult to achieve
  C) every speaker or writer has a method of defining words
  D) there are both traditional and modern methods of defining words
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1596:

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

  Our principal and chairman of the occasion _____ just arrived

  Options:
  A) has
  B) having
  C) have
  D) had
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1597:

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

  Tend?

  Options:
  A) caned
  B) jeopardy
  C) turned
  D) earned
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1598:

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

  Before the bill could be settled, Chuwang _____ all the money

  Options:
  A) has spent
  B) will have spent
  C) had spent
  D) will have spent
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1599: Choose from the options opposite in meaning to the word underlined.Common sense requires that one should be decorous at formal gatherings? Options:
  A) courteous
  B) impolite
  C) incurious
  D) careful
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1600:

  Choose the word/expression which best completes each sentence :

  During the inaugural address, the president _____ the activities of his government for the past four years

  Options:
  A) reiterated
  B) reviewed
  C) restated
  D) recited
  E) resumed
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  The correct answer is B .