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

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• Question 1761:

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

  The journalist's unpopular views made him the subject of much _____

  Options:
  A) admiration
  B) derision
  C) admonition
  D) suspicion
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1762:

  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 1763:

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

  The corrupt official had to leave the public service willy-nilly

  Options:
  A) unprepared
  B) reluctantly
  C) willingly
  D) compulsorily
  E) by retirement
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1764:

  From the words lettered A to D, choose the word or group of words that best completes each of the following sentences.

  It is you that __________ to write the letter

  Options:
  A) is suppose
  B) is supposed
  C) are suppose
  D) are supposed
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1765:

  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

  From the passage, we gather that writings were almost Options:
  A) as unreliable as human memory
  B) as reliable as electronic memory
  C) more reliable than electronic recording
  D) not to be compared to any recording system
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1766:

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

  A tentative solution was provided?

  Options:
  A) A convincing
  B) A provisional
  C) An amicable
  D) A definite
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1767:

  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 author believes that electronic recording is Options:
  A) superior only to mental recording
  B) inferior to both mental recording and writing
  C) superior to both mental recording and writing
  D) inferior to only writing
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1768: In the question below choose the option nearest in meaning to the word(s) or phrase(s) underlined:He works long hour collecting trash to make out a livelihood Options:
  A) try a living
  B) struggle for a living
  C) make a living
  D) carve out a living
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1769:

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

  One wonders if the situation will improve

  Options:
  A) brighten
  B) diminish
  C) disintegrate
  D) worsen
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1770:

  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 .