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

English is the study of the English language. The goal is to improve communication skills by practicing listening, speaking, reading, writing, and understanding language rules like pronunciation, vocabulary, and grammar.

• Question 2301:

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

  Little children are usually afraid _____ thunder,

  Options:
  A) about
  B) for
  C) of
  D) with
  E) at
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 2302:

  Choose the word that has the same vowel sound as the one in bracket, from questions below

  H[ei]r

  Options:
  A) Care
  B) Near
  C) mere
  D) weird
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 2303:

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

  My _____ brother intends to get married in December.

  Options:
  A) senior
  B) elder
  C) older
  D) oldest
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 2304:

  The preparation which a study of the humanities can provide stems from three observations about education in our world of accelerating social and technological change. First, with the rate of change, we cannot hope to train our student for specific technologies. That kind of vocational education is obsolescent. By the time the specific training will have been completed, the world will have moved on.

  If our education consists of narrow training, we will not be prepared to change. Second and paradoxically, what our student desire from their education is preparation for specific careers – business, engineering, medicine, computer programming and the like, but we will not be able to train them for a life-long career. Their confronting the depressed job market gives our students a certain anxiety, but the solution they seek in vocational training is not sufficient. Third, we sense in our students a narrow materialism, with the good life defined in terms of material comforts. Education then means learning to do a job which will make money. I see in this definition a limiting sense of what education and thus life offer, a definition which excludes joy and meaning. Our narrow approach to the study of the humanities responds to these three related problems. In our changing, yet narrow world, the teaching of the humanities finds one powerful justification – it teaches student how to think.

  What is the major weakness of training students for specific technologies? Options:
  A) It trains students for only one type of career
  B) It helps students to acquire money later when they are employed
  C) It makes them anxious for a job in the market
  D) It cannot help students to cope with the rapid changes in the world
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 2305:

  Choose the option opposite in meaning to word

  underlined?

  The refugees were received at the transit camp?

  Options:
  A) passage
  B) permanent
  C) temporary
  D) nearby
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 2306: This question is based on the novel, The Life Changer.

  What is Habib's Political title?

  Options:
  A) Governor
  B) Speaker of the house
  C) Minister of finance
  D) Minister of Education
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 2307:

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

  Do you know one of the most astounding events of my life?

  Options:
  A) special
  B) amazing
  C) serious
  D) outstanding
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 2308:

  Fill in the blank spaces in the following sentences making use of the best of the five option:

  In the past his father used to walk but nowadays he _____ to work by bicycles

  Options:
  A) was going
  B) is going
  C) seldomly goes
  D) goes
  E) has gone
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 2309: Select the option that best explains the information conveyed in the sentence.The crisis ended as suddenly as it began? Options:
  A) The crisis had suddenly begun
  B) The crisis will not end suddenly
  C) The crisis stopped almost immediately
  D) The crisis stop immediately
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 2310:

  Select the wrongly spelt words.

  Options:
  A) occurrence
  B) surprise
  C) personnel
  D) posses
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  The correct answer is D .