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

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• Question 2481:

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

  The agency has sworn to deal with all the apostles of confederation?

  Options:
  A) opponents
  B) apostates
  C) proponents
  D) protagonists
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 2482: Choose the option nearest in meaning to the underlined word(s).The festivals create in the people of feeling of pride in their cultural heritage Options:
  A) history
  B) heirloom
  C) legacy
  D) possession
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 2483: In the question below choose the option nearest in meaning to the word or phrase underlined: What he received from the visitors was invaluable Options:
  A) priceless
  B) worthless
  C) valueless
  D) costly
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 2484:

  Boxing is sometimes called' the noble art of self defence'. According to some people, boxing appeals to the lowest instincts in the ...11... who have come to watch blood flow and their fellow human suffer Boxers who are medically fit appear in the ...12... The referee sometimes allows the...13... to go on for long so that one of the ...14... is reduced to a human punch bag.It may happen that the boxers are not well ...15... one being much stronger than the other, as a result of which he so much...16... his opponent that he wins ...17... Many boxers have suffered permanent brain...18... in the ...19... of punches that have been thrown at them during their ...20...

  Choose the most appropriate option for the gap labelled [...13...] above. Options:
  A) bout
  B) match
  C) performance
  D) contest
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 2485: Some robbers are on the prowl, we must be _____ ? Options:
  A) alert
  B) at alert
  C) on the alert
  D) for alert
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 2486: Choose the option that has same vowel sound as the one represented by the letter (s) underlined.glasier Options:
  A) feign
  B) glass
  C) gleam
  D) flat
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 2487:

  In many places in the world today, the poor are getting poorer while the rich are getting richer and the programmes of development planning and foreign aid appear to be unable to reverse this trade. Nearly all the developing countries have a modern sector, where the pattern of living and working are similar to those in developed countries. But they also have a non-modern sector where the patterns of living and working are not only unsatisfactory but in many cases are even getting worse.

  What is the typical condition of the poor in developing countries? Their work opportunities are so limited that they cannot work their way out of their situation. They are underemployed or totally unemployed. When they do find occasional works, their productivity is extremely low. Some of them have land but often too little land. Many have no land and no prospect of ever getting any. There is no hope for them in the rural areas and so, they drift into the big cities. But there is no work for them in the big cities either-and of course no housing. All the same, they flock into cities because their chances of finding some work appear to be greater there than in the village, where they are nil. Rural unemployment then produces mass migration into cities, rural unemployment becomes urban unemployment.

  The problem can be stated quite simply: what can be done to promote economic growth outside the big cities, in the small towns and villages which still contain 80 to 90% of the total population? The primary need is workplace, literally millions of workplaces.

  The expression 'work their way out of their situation' means Options:
  A) walk from one village to another
  B) migrate from village to city
  C) work their way out of their village
  D) change their circumstances
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 2488:

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

  Musa hates Hadiza for her constant bellicose behaviour?

  Options:
  A) voilent
  B) gentle
  C) meek
  D) troblesome
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 2489:

  This question is based on the novel, The Life Changer.

  The Life Changer is authored by?

  Options:
  A) Khadija Abubakar Jilla
  B) Khadija Abubakar Jalli
  C) Khadija Abubakar Jali
  D) Khadija Abubakar Jila
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 2490:

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

  I looked for you all over the campus but i could not _____ you

  Options:
  A) find
  B) see
  C) meet
  D) catch
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  The correct answer is A .