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

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• Question 2581:

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

  It is futile trying to make bricks without straw

  Options:
  A) fertile
  B) important
  C) fragile
  D) vain
  E) bad
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 2582:

  In the question below, choose the expression or words which best completes each sentence:

  I _____ a lot when I was a student.

  Options:
  A) used travelling
  B) was used to travel
  C) used to travel
  D) used travel
  E) was used to travelling
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 2583: Fill each gap with the most appropriate option from the lists provided.Whenever we have _____ we feel better? Options:
  A) a long good talk together
  B) a good long talk together
  C) together a long good talk
  D) together a good long talk
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 2584:

  It may be argued that museums as an institution and an agency for transmitting cultural heritage are an artificial creature, so far as objects are removed from their natural or proper environments and put into museums which are a different environment altogether. However, it seems that museums themselves have come to be accepted and recognized as the best equipped institutions devised by man for the assemblage of cultural objects and their presentation and preservation for the present and future generations.

  The artificial character of museums is however being gradually transformed into a cultural reality. Thus, just as one goes to the theatre for plays and other performing arts; the mosque, the church or the shrine for worship; the library for the printed word; today, it is to the museums one goes to see evidence of man’s material outfit. For, no other institution or place so readily comes to mind as museums do when evidence of material culture is sought. Herein lies the importance of museums as cultural institutions and an agency for transmitting culture.

  Which of the following phrases in the passage does NOT express the artificial character of museums? Options:
  A) Removed from
  B) For transmitting
  C) put into
  D) Devised by
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 2585:

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

  My price for the pair of shoes is fifty naira. I cannot _____ anything less than that

  Options:
  A) bear with
  B) settle for
  C) agree with
  D) tolerate
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 2586:

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

  Bankole was a man given to much wine

  Options:
  A) pushed to
  B) taken over by
  C) addicted to
  D) forced to
  E) afflicted by
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 2587:

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

  'Darling, do send the children to bed. I can't _____ their noise any longer' he said to is wife

  Options:
  A) make do with
  B) make up
  C) deal with
  D) put up with
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 2588:

  In the question below, 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 will stop immediately.
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 2589:

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

  To be above board is to be

  Options:
  A) afloat
  B) on top of a plank
  C) above suspicion
  D) raised above a board
  E) the chairman of a board
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 2590: Choose the option nearest in meaning to the underlined word(s).The teacher's apparent nonchalant attitude was misconstrued by his students? Options:
  A) condoned
  B) misrepresented
  C) misquoted
  D) misinterpreted
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  The correct answer is D .