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

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• Question 2721:

  From the alternative provided in the question below select the one which is most appropriately completes the sentence:

  If the armed robbers _____ caught, they would have been lynched.

  Options:
  A) would be
  B) have been
  C) are
  D) were
  E) had been
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  The correct answer is E .
• Question 2722: Select the option that best explain the information conveyed in the sentence?Though he is our elected representative he often takes a rather jaundiced view of our problems? Options:
  A) He takes a rather hazy view of our problems
  B) He takes an unfavourable position concerning our problems
  C) He takes a rather forceful view of our problems
  D) He takes a sickly view of our problems
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 2723:

  This book consist of lectures given by me at Cambridge. Though they have been largely rewritten, I have kept a good deal of their original lecture-form, as being (I hope) rather less formal and less dogmatic. For to dogmatism, those who write on language seem, for some reason, particularly prone; and I should like to make clear at once that, if at times I have put my view strongly, I do not forget that such matters of taste must remain mere matters of opinion.

  In addition I have included a good many specimen passages from various authors. Perhaps I have quoted too much. But a book on style without abundant examples seems to me as ineffectual as a book on art, or biology without abundant illustrations. Many of these passages are in French. That may be Gallomanian on my part and I must apologize if they trouble some readers. But some ability to read French prose does seem to me most desirable for anyone who would write well in English. I have tried to choose pieces not too difficult in syntax or vocabulary. And in these days less than ever can we afford to be better insular.

  According to the author (in this preface) the book is Options:
  A) the original version of his Cambridge lectures
  B) a revised version of his Cambridge lectutres
  C) an imitation of his Cambridge lectures
  D) a negation of his Cambridge lectures
  E) an authentic version of his Cambridge lectures
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 2724: Fill each of the gap with the appropriate option from the list following the the gap.Okonkwo is a stubborn man, he will never _____ his words? Options:
  A) chew
  B) spit
  C) eat
  D) bite
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 2725:

  The word in capital letters has an emphatic stress, Choose the option that best fits the expression in the sentence?

  The electricity in OUR premises comes from a generator?

  Options:
  A) Is the electricity in your compound supplied by a generator
  B) Is the electricity in your neighbour's premises supplied by a generator
  C) Does the electricity in your premises come from NEPA
  D) Does everybody in your street receive electricity from generator
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 2726:

  The market was old, timeless Africa; loud, crowed and free. Here a man sat making sandals from old discarded motor-car tyres; there another worked at an old sewing machine, making a nightgown-like affair while the buyer waited; a little further on, an old goldsmith worked at his dying art, but using now copper fillings instead of gold to fashion the lovely trinkets women wear the world over; elsewhere a woman sold country cloth fashioned with such fine art that only Africans think of it as a garment of utility. Trade was slow and loud everywhere. This was as much a social as a shopping centre. For an excuse to spend the day at the market, a woman would walk all way from her village to town with half dozen eggs. She would spread them on a little bit of ground for which she paid rent. Through the day she would squat on the ground and talk to others who came for the same reason. She would refuse to sell her wares till it was time to leave. They were the excuse for business. Whether in earnest or as an excuse, the traders were boisterously free, loud-mouthed and happy. The laughter of the market was a laughter found nowhere else in all the world……………

  Which of the following titles BEST reflects the content of the passage? Options:
  A) a market scene
  B) trading in the market
  C) an African market scene
  D) an African shopping centre
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 2727:

  In the question below choose the option opposite in meaning to the word underlined:

  The lady acted courageously when thieves attacked her

  Options:
  A) shyly
  B) fearlessly
  C) indiscreetly
  D) timidly
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 2728:

  Choose the option that best completes the gap(s).

  I wonder how he will _____ being absent from school for a long time.

  Options:
  A) make in
  B) make up
  C) make off
  D) make out
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 2729:

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

  The result of the election would have been different if some people had not been disfranchised

  Options:
  A) disfavoured
  B) banned from contesting
  C) allowed to rig
  D) prevented from voting
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 2730:

  Choose the option that best complete the gap (s):

  The philanthropist devoted himself _______the poor.

  Options:
  A) by helping
  B) to be helping
  C) to helping
  D) in helping
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  The correct answer is C .