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

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• Question 231:

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

  The point you have made is quite apt

  Options:
  A) illogical
  B) helpful
  C) irrelevant
  D) insentitive
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 232:

  Those who are familiar with it will tell you that Ludo, like human life itself, is a game both of chance and skill. You need skill in deciding how to make the most advantageous use of the figures that turn up on the die when you cast it. Since each player has at least four alternative ways of using his figures, two players with equal luck may fare differently, depending on how cleverly each one uses his figures. The element of luck, again as in human life, plays a dominant role however. For no matter how skilful a player may be in using the figures he gets on the die, he has a slim chance of winning if he continually throws low figures. While a combination of ones and twos may be useful in checking the advance of one’s opponents, it will not take one home fast enough to win. On the other hand: consistent throws of sixes and fives with the very minimum of skill, will help a player to home all his four counters before any of the three other players, unless, of course, he has no idea of the game at all.

  It is implied in the passage, that in Ludo threes and fours are Options:
  A) very high throws
  B) medium throws
  C) low throws
  D) very low throws
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 233: Choose the option that best complete the gap. Those _____ are very beautiful. Options:
  A) Flowers of ours.
  B) Flowers of her.
  C) Flowers of her's.
  D) Our flowers.
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 234:

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

  A pioneer, he _____ the institution from his own resources

  Options:
  A) found and funded
  B) founded and funded
  C) was finding and funding
  D) had found and funded
  E) was founded and funding
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 235:

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

  At the end of the month we _____ each other for five years

  Options:
  A) would know
  B) should have known
  C) should be knowing
  D) would have been
  E) used to know
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 236:

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

  He has no reason to have his heart in his mouth?

  Options:
  A) think negatively
  B) feel guilty
  C) be afraid
  D) be confident
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 237:

  The word in capital letters has the emphatic stress. Choose the option to which the given sentence relates.

  The POLICE arrested the suspect.

  Options:
  A) Did the police placate the suspect?
  B) Who arrested the suspect?
  C) Who did the police arrest?
  D) Did the police arrest the suspect?
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 238: _______your parents frown_______our friendship, we shouldn't see each other anymore. Options:
  A) because/over
  B) since/at
  C) although/at
  D) as/upon
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 239:

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

  All _____ well with Peter

  Options:
  A) are not
  B) have not been
  C) were not
  D) is not
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 240:

  For these questions, choose the option that best complete the gap(s):

  With strong determination, Adamu was able to_______the problem.

  Options:
  A) surmount
  B) surpass
  C) defend
  D) know
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  The correct answer is A .