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

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• Question 181: Select the option that best explains the information conveyed in the sentence.Many workers are not happy because they live a hand-to-mouth life. Options:
  A) They work hard with their hands.
  B) They are voracious and avaricious.
  C) They are barely surviving.
  D) They have rejected the use of spoons.
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 182: Select the wrongly spelt word from the options below: Options:
  A) disappointed
  B) embarassed
  C) equipped
  D) rhythm
  E) restaurant
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 183:

  Choose the option opposite in meaning to the word(s) or phrase in italics.

  This card entitles you to attend the film show.

  Options:
  A) disqualifies
  B) discourages
  C) disenchants
  D) satisfies
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 184:

  His many years of success in legal practise ........ didn't come out without challenges

  Options:
  A) Indeed
  B) But
  C) in spite of all
  D) However
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 185:

  Choose the most appropriate option opposite in meaning of the underlined word.

  In his quest for solidarity, the party leader undertook a nation-wide tour?

  Options:
  A) unity
  B) resistance
  C) mobilization
  D) re-organization
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 186:

  read each passage and answer the question that follow

  The great herald of things to come was Ezekiel, not only in the sense that he predicted the future, but also became in the manner and content of his prophetic ministry, he foreshadowed many of the important religious developments, which were characteristics of the age after the Exile.

  He, rather than Ezra, was the founder of Judaism. He not only pointed forward; but as well shall see, he represented some of the great elements in Israel’s religious past.

  The book which bears his name is outwardly impressive in its orderliness and symmetry and in the careful chronologic al arrangement of its contents. It purports to present the record of prophecies uttered in the Babylonian Exile between 593 and 571 B.C and for long this was not seriously questioned. Even when other prophetic books have been dissected and assigned to sundry authors and editors, this book continued to be regarded by most scholars as having come into its entirety from Ezekiel. Then came a period in which many extreme theories were advanced , assigning much of it to other hands or presupposing complicated processes of editorial revision, or dating the book to a period much later than the Babylonian Exile, or maintaining that Ezekiel’s ministry was not exercised in Babylonia but in Palestine, or at least was begun there. Such theories have been subjected to damaging criticism and are now somewhat discredited. The account of Ezekiel’s ministry and teaching is based on the view that he lived and worked among the exile in Babylonia, at the period indicated, and the bulk of the material in the book comes from him, though, like other prophetic collections, it owes much in its complication, arrangement and transmission to prophetic disciple

  The account of Ezikiel's Ministry was Options:
  A) compiled with the collaboration of others
  B) his and his alone
  C) shared by many writers
  D) partly composed by him and partly by Ezra
  E) produced as a result of God's Inspiration
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 187:

  In each of the following questions, the main/primary stress is indicated by writing the syllable in which it occurs in capital letters. From the words lettered A to D, choose the one that has the correct stress.

  EDUCATION

  Options:
  A) E-du-ca-tion
  B) e-DU-ca-tion
  C) e-du-CA-tion
  D) e-du-ca-TION
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 188: Choose the option nearest in meaning to the underlined word(s).The school's badge is the insignia? of office for all the perfects in the school Options:
  A) power
  B) symbol
  C) seal
  D) recognition
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 189:

  Fill in the gap(s) with the most appropriate option from the list following the gap(s).

  _______ woman was attacked by a group of bandits

  Options:
  A) a 90- years old
  B) a 90-year old
  C) a 90 years-old
  D) a 90 year-old
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 190:

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

  It is sheer foolhardiness for unarmed policemen to pursue armed robbers

  Options:
  A) nonsense
  B) bravery
  C) foolishness
  D) stupidity
  E) foolish risk taking
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  The correct answer is E .