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

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• Question 2131:

  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 2132:

  Primitive man was probably more concerned with fire as a source of warmth and as a means of cooking food than as a source of light. Before the discovered less laborious ways of making fire, he had to preserve it and whenever he went on a journey he carried a firebrand with him. He discovered that the firebrand, from which the torch may well have developed, could be used for illumination was probably incidental to the primary purpose of preserving a flame.

  Lamps too probably developed by accident. Early man may had his first conception of a lamp while watching a twing or fibre burning in the molten fat dropped from roasting carcass. All he had to do was to fashion a vessel to contain fat and float a lighted reed in it. Such lamps which were made of hollow stones or sea-shells have persisted in identical form up to quite recent times.

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  One way early man made a lamp was by putting a lighted reed in a

  Options:
  A) hollow stone
  B) sea shell
  C) vessel
  D) molten fat
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 2133: Identify the word that has the stress on the first syllable. Options:
  A) resist
  B) salon
  C) confirm
  D) intact
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 2134:

  In the question below select the option which best express the meaning of the phrase or word underlined:

  The take home pay for many workers is such that they can hardly make both ends meet

  Options:
  A) live an honest live
  B) finish their schedule of work
  C) keep two jobs at a time
  D) live within their income
  E) live on both ends
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 2135:

  In question below fill the gap with the appropriate option:

  Every programming language and software package _____ limitations

  Options:
  A) have its
  B) have their
  C) has its
  D) has their
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 2136:

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

  pear?

  Options:
  A) dear
  B) year
  C) there
  D) near
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 2137:

  Choose the option opposite in meaning to the underlined word.

  The weather condition now prevailing in town is unbearable?

  Options:
  A) widespread
  B) dominant
  C) uncommon
  D) unconttrollable
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 2138:

  Choose the appropriate option to fill the gap in the following sentences:

  We couldn't find the official who was to act as our guide _____ , he has left before we arrived

  Options:
  A) Moreover
  B) Actually
  C) Nevertheless
  D) However
  E) Even
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 2139:

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

  The chairman's reaction was a storm in a tree cup?

  Options:
  A) situated for the occasion
  B) less serious than it appeared to be
  C) more serious than necessary
  D) greatly diminished in scope
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 2140:

  Choose the word that is opposite in meaning to the underlined word.

  'I do not trust him', he said, in a rare moment of candour.

  Options:
  A) reproach
  B) dishonesty
  C) frankness
  D) fairness
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  The correct answer is B .