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

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• Question 2141:

  The disease afflicting Western societies have undergone dramatic changes. In the course of a century, so many mass killers have vanished that two-third of all deaths are now associated with the disease of old age. Those who die young are more often than not, the victims of accidents, violence and suicide.

  These changes in public health are generally equated with progress and attributed to more or better medical care. In fact there is no evidence of any direct relationship between changing disease pattern and the so-called progress of medicine.

  The impotence of medical services to change life expectancy and the insignificance of much contemporary clinical care in the curing of diseases are all obvious, well documented but well suppressed.

  Neither the proportion of doctors in a population nor the quality of the clinical tools at the disposal not the number of hospital beds is a casual factor in the striking changes in disease patterns. The new techniques available to recognize and treat such conditions as pernicious anaemia and hypertension, or correct congenital malformations by surgical interventions, increase our understanding of disease but do not reduce its incidence. The fact that there are more doctors where certain diseases have become rare has little to do with their ability to control or eliminate them. It simply means that doctors, more than other professionals, determine where they work. Consequently, they tend to gather where the climate is healthy, where the water is clean and where people work and can pay for their services.

  The statement, ‘The diseases afflicting Western societies have undergone dramatic change, implies that Options:
  A) Change have taken place in the mode of diseases affliction
  B) Medical services have been important in changing life expectancy
  C) A lot of significant progress has taken place in public health
  D) Death from diseases in western societies are minimal
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 2142: Choose the word or phrase from options A-E which has nearest in meaning to the underlined word or words in each sentence:
  He should be able to do it alone. Options:
  A) He would be able to do it alone
  B) He ought to be able to do it alone
  C) He may be able to do it alone
  D) He has to be able to do it alone
  E) He will do it alone
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 2143:

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

  It is customary to find young men and women in sports.

  Options:
  A) Common
  B) Unusual
  C) Unideal
  D) Unnecessary
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 2144:

  Answer the following question below and select the option that best explains the information conveyed in the sentence.

  The company ought to have issued warrants for one billion shares.

  Options:
  A) the company has issued one billion share
  B) the management expected the company to issue more than one billion shares
  C) members of the company bought less than one billion shares
  D) the company did not issue one billion shares
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 2145:

  Choose the option that complete the gap(s).

  There was _____ any traffic as he drove home?

  Options:
  A) hardly
  B) normally
  C) usually
  D) no
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 2146:

  This question is based on "The Life Changer" novel.

  Why did Habib call Tomiwa instead of Salma that he gave a ride?

  Options:
  A) Because Tomiwa is a Muslim and Salma is not
  B) Because Salma gave him Tomiwa's number instead of hers
  C) All of the above
  D) Because Habib likes Tomiwa more than Salma
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 2147: Choose the option that has a different stress pattern from the others. Options:
  A) impound
  B) subject (verb)
  C) canoe
  D) knowledge
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 2148:

  Choose the option that best completes the gap(s).

  ______ he switches on the light, the shadow disappears?

  Options:
  A) Whenever
  B) Expect
  C) Since
  D) Until
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 2149:

  In the question below choose the phrase or word which best completes the meaning of each sentence:

  It had been raining before the match started, _____ ?

  Options:
  A) isn't it
  B) hasn't it
  C) hadn't it
  D) wasn't it
  E) is it
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 2150:

  Choose the word that has the same consonant sound as the one in bracket

  Non[ch]alant

  Options:
  A) television
  B) arch
  C) champagne
  D) chest
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  The correct answer is C .