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

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• Question 2211: Fill the each gap with the most appropriate option from the list option from the list provided.Of course we all saw the culprit _____ and hit the man on the head? Options:
  A) approached
  B) approching
  C) approach
  D) approches
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 2212: Choose the option nearest in meaning to the underlined word(s).Nigeria has been playing a vital role in the political and economic development of Africa? Options:
  A) creditable
  B) crucial
  C) rspectable
  D) laudable
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 2213:

  In the question below choose the word or phrase which best fills the gap in each sentence:

  The single _____ was enough to spoil a whole lifetime of good living

  Options:
  A) occurence
  B) ocurence
  C) occurrence
  D) occurrense
  E) ocurrence
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 2214:

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

  It is advisable to administer the test in the morning when students are fresh

  Options:
  A) perform
  B) set
  C) undertake
  D) give
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 2215:

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

  The pen which you have just picked up is _____?

  Options:
  A) Charle's
  B) Charles'
  C) Charless'
  D) Charles's
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 2216:

  The passage below has gaps numbered 11 to 20. Immediately following each gap, four options are provided. Choose the most appropriate option for each gap.

  Capitalism is an economic system which is founded on the principle of free enterprise and the private ownership of the means of production and distribution. The - 11 – [A. protagonists B. antagonists C. determiners D. attorneys] of capitalism claim that its essential characteristic is economic - 12- [A. exploitation B. manipulation C. manoeuvring D. freedom]. The producer is free to produce whatever goods he – 13 - [A. sells B. buys C. fancies D. manufactures]. but the - 14 – [ A. customer B. consumer C. controller D. marketer]. is equally free to buy what he wants. There is a market mechanism under this system, which brings the producer and consumer together and tends to equate the supplies of the one to the demands of the other, and -15 – [A. neutralize B. harmonize C. settle D. decide] the whims and caprice of both. It is this same - 16 – [A. market B. controlling C. operational D. production] mechanism which determines what prices the consumers pay to the producers, as what share of the total - 17- [ A. dividends B. interest C. output D. profit], in cash or kind, goes to each of the four recognized -18 – [ A. managers B. agents C. methods D. factors] of production – land, labour capital and organization. It is further claimed for this system that every person is capable of watching his or her own interest, and that whatever injustice is done by the - 19 – [A. pricing B. operations C. managers D. buyers and sellers] of the market mechanism, this mechanism tends to bring about a state of - 20 – [ A. conflict B. equidistance C. equilibrium D. opprobrium] between the producers and the consumers.

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  In the gap numbered 20 above, choose the best option from letters A - D that best completes the gap. Options:
  A) conflict
  B) equidistance
  C) equilibrium
  D) opprobrium
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 2217:

  In the question below choose the option nearest in meaning to the word(s) or phrase Underlined:

  Our teacher seldom comes late to school

  Options:
  A) very often
  B) always
  C) frequently
  D) hardly ever
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 2218:

  In the question below choose the word(s) or phrase(s) which best fill(s) the gap(s):

  The teacher invited Akpan and _____ to his office

  Options:
  A) myself
  B) me
  C) i
  D) himself
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 2219:

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

  We could not put up with his terrible disposition?

  Options:
  A) exterminate
  B) tolerate
  C) control
  D) deal with
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 2220:

  Choose the the appropriate stress pattern from the options. The syllables are written in capital letters.

  My father READ the newspaper.

  Options:
  A) Did my father steal the newspaper?
  B) Who read the newspaper?
  C) What did my father read
  D) Whose father read the newspaper
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  The correct answer is A .