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

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• Question 1911:

  Select the option that best explains the information conveyed in the sentence.

  The woman was mournful as her husband was found dead drunk.

  Options:
  A) She was sad because her husband was absolutely drunk
  B) She was apprehensive that her husband would drink as soon as he recovered fromdrunken stupor
  C) She was sad because her husband was drunk and always as helpless as a dead man
  D) She was mourning because her husband drank and died
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1912: This question is based on the novel, The Life Changer.

  At what age did Tallelost his father and stepmother ?

  Options:
  A) 21
  B) 20
  C) 19
  D) 18
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1913:

  Choose the option opposite in meaning to word underlined?

  For anything to do with academic work, he has a great aversion?

  Options:
  A) conversion
  B) attention
  C) contempt
  D) predilection
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1914:

  In this question, fill each gap with the most appropriate option from the list provided.

  To check desertification in the arid zones, ...... trees should be planted

  Options:
  A) drought-resisting
  B) drought-resistant
  C) drought-effective
  D) drought-proof
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1915:

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

  Caused

  Options:
  A) chanced
  B) frost
  C) released
  D) realized
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1916:

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

  The police are looking for _____

  Options:
  A) two big cars black
  B) two cars big black
  C) two big black cars
  D) two black big cars
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1917: Fill each of the gap with the appropriate option from the list following the the gap.We had a dull evening because _____ ? Options:
  A) hardly the talk had begun when the lights went off
  B) hardly had the talk begun when the light went off
  C) the talk had hardly begun when the lights had gone out
  D) the lights had hardly gone out when the talk began
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1918:

  At the time of trouble in Ireland, a priest said, ‘Man is half beast’, A diplomat replied, ‘Yes. And the beast is the half I like the best’. The priest meant that beasts behave as badly as man when man makes up his mind to behave badly. If you look at the folly and cruelty of today’s world, it is hard to disagree with the diplomat or the priest. But human nature can be changed. Anybody, if that is what they most want to do, can change the most difficult person they know. The art of changing people has been lost in the modern world. That is why the modern world has lost its way.

  There are two ways of looking at human nature. One is to make the best of it and it is assume that it is the raw material of life which cannot be altered. That is what most people in the free world to today. In these circumstances, if you expect the worst, you are seldom disappointed. Faith today has become irrelevant to the everyday needs, of so many people in positions of responsibility because they do not expect faith to change men.

  Another way of dealing with human nature is to exploit it. All materialistic s, whether of the right or the left, do this. All over the world vanity, fear, ambition, lust and greed are used to control the life of men; and if the control breaks down, man does not hesitate to use force, or to destroy life. The end, he says, justifies the means and men are only of value in so far as they are a means towards the achievement of his ambition. If they cannot be bribed or forced to play their part, then they must be liquidated.

  What most people do in the free world today is to Options:
  A) leave other people alone
  B) assume that human nature is bad
  C) accepts human nature as it is since it is immutable
  D) attempt to change the world
  E) leave the world as it is
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1919:

  Fill each gap with the most appropriate option from the list following the gap.

  I had hardly _____ down to sleep when i heard the gunshot?

  Options:
  A) lay
  B) lied
  C) lain
  D) laid
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1920:

  The passage below has gaps numbered 16 to 25. Immediately following each gap, four options are provided. Choose the most appropriate for each gap. Each question carries 2 marks.

    Publishing is the fast growing business in Nigeria and there are therefore, many publishing houses all over the country. When ……..16……..[A. an article B. an essay C. a book D. a manuscript]. is submitted by an author, the publisher sends it to ……..17……..[A. an assessor B. an evaluator C. a checker D. an examiner] to know if it is actually publishable. This is important because the publisher wants to make sure that the book catches the ……18…..[A. market B. audience C. students D. shops] when it is eventually published. In a good publishing house, there is …….19……[A. an error-proof B. an editor C. a lithographic D. an evaluation] section which is concerned with……..20……[A. proof-reading B. reading over C. scanning over D. skimming over] the manuscript and correcting both the spelling and typing errors. After this, the manuscript is ………21…….[A. typewritten B. typeset C. double-spaced D. single-spaced] in readiness for …….22…..[A. photocopying B. Xeroxing C. filming D. printing].

    The printed ……..23……[A. items B. bulletin C. copies D. specimen] are then stored in the warehouse and a few of them may be sent to the author as ……..24……[A. complementary B. complimentary C. acknowledgement D. sample] copies. Since it is not just the aim of the publisher to offset the cost of production but also to make some gains, there is a strong marketing division which promotes sales. A certain percentage of the cover price of the book is paid to the author as ……..25……[A. royalty B. honorarium C. dividend D. interest].

  Select the correct option for the space numbered 16 in the above passage Options:
  A) an article
  B) an essay
  C) a book
  D) a manuscript
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  The correct answer is D .