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

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• Question 2541:

  Setting up a news paper involves a lot of preparations. The __11__ has to employ a lot of people. Other people working with him are cartographers, editors, typesetters, readers, who work in various ways to produce the text of the newspaper, __12__, who go out and collect story and items of news, and __13__, who specialize in one kind of topic. Another important person who works closely with the Editor-in-Chief is the __14__, who has to choose the most important stories__15__ go through stories sent to them and make necessary adjustments.

  The Editor-in-Chief could determine for instance, whether a particular journalist should write articles daily or weekly in a particular column. Such a journalist is known as __16__. The editorials of the news paper will be coordinated by __17__. The publisher could decide to establish __18__ which would be on sale weekly, fortnightly, or monthly,__19__ the eyes catching, screaming headlines and captions of newspapers on sale everyday from the __20__.

  Choose the most appropriate option for the gap labelled 11. Options:
  A) sub-editor
  B) processor
  C) lithographer
  D) proprietor
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 2542:

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

  Very few students have satisfactory _____ these days because the student population has increased tremedously

  Options:
  A) acommondation
  B) accomodation
  C) accommodation
  D) acommoddation
  E) acommodation
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 2543:

  Primitive man was probably more concerned with fire as a source of warmth and as a means of cooking food than as a source of light. Before the discovered less laborious ways of making fire, he had to preserve it and whenever he went on a journey he carried a firebrand with him. He discovered that the firebrand, from which the torch may well have developed, could be used for illumination was probably incidental to the primary purpose of preserving a flame.

  Lamps too probably developed by accident. Early man may had his first conception of a lamp while watching a twing or fibre burning in the molten fat dropped from roasting carcass. All he had to do was to fashion a vessel to contain fat and float a lighted reed in it. Such lamps which were made of hollow stones or sea-shells have persisted in identical form up to quite recent times.

  According to the passage, the torch probably developed from a Options:
  A) firebrand
  B) twing
  C) lamp
  D) fibre
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 2544:

  Choose the word or phrase from A to E which has the nearest meaning to the underlined word or words in each sentence :

  We all have both good and bad characteristics. Either is, however, easily manifested in time of crises.

  Options:
  A) Demanded
  B) Highlighted
  C) Submerged
  D) Demonstrated
  E) Ridiculed
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 2545:

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

  I ran _____ an old friend of mine on Broad Street and brought him home

  Options:
  A) into
  B) to
  C) over
  D) across
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 2546: Choose the option that has the same consonant sound as the one represented by the letter underlined. Epitaph. Options:
  A) Pneumonia.
  B) Pseudo.
  C) Fan.
  D) Paper.
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 2547:

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

  If you want a successful marriage , you _____ pray for it

  Options:
  A) have better
  B) better
  C) had better
  D) would better
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 2548:

  Choose the option that best fills the gap.

  The officer was compelled to _____ the suspect’s car.

  Options:
  A) seize
  B) cease
  C) sieze
  D) sease
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 2549:

  Fill each gap with the most appropriate option from the list provided.

  Three quarters of the people in the village _____ killed but only half of their huts ______ affected?

  Options:
  A) were / were
  B) was / was
  C) were/ was
  D) was /were
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 2550:

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

  The first graduation ceremony of the university was attended by men from all ______ of life.

  Options:
  A) Works
  B) Areas
  C) Walks
  D) Parts
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  The correct answer is C .