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

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• Question 2861:

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

  I could not believe that our team _____ the match after being in the lead for most of the match

  Options:
  A) to lose
  B) lost
  C) will be losing
  D) losing
  E) loosen
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 2862:

  In the question below, choose the option nearest in meaning to the word or phase in italics.
  Accountability is certainly a desirable quality in a politician.

  Options:
  A) Respectability
  B) Courage
  C) Responsibility
  D) Diligence
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 2863:

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

  There is no love lost between Hassan and Hassana

  Options:
  A) dislike each other
  B) are head over heals in love
  C) will love each other
  D) are still good friends
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 2864:

  It is customary nowadays among fashionable ladies and gentlemen to acquire strange and sometimes quaint cloths which are scarcely ever used. Sometimes it may be an approaching festival; sometimes a two hour ceremony and sometimes to honour a dead colleague – something triggers off the modern craze to sew new materials whose use does not outlast the moment of craze. And so, people who just occupy small apartments in their parents’ homes, or have rented one room in a densely – peopled house find that more than two- thirds of their rooms are filled with bongo trousers which they cannot wear, worn out jeans which stinks, or specially made clothes for occasions that are not recurrent.

  Although plagued by the problem of school fees for their children, parents have had to swallow their own phlegm and humour their children who need special clothes for important events. Newly employed youths soon find that their comrades getting married, and a new and special attire must be used to grace the occasion. University students see matriculation ceremonies or induction ceremonies into club membership as special reasons to make new attire which – you may be sure they would not wear on another occasion that parallels the one for which these clothes were made.

  Medical doctors may soon find another cause for the incidence of high blood pressure among the youth. The desire to acquire new clothes is one strong possible cause, but a more subtle one which haunts like a ghost is the problem of choice of what to wear. The youths have so stuffed their apartments, wardrobes, drawers and trunks with so many clothes that the greatest problem they face is the choice of what to wear.

  The youth acquire clothes for Options:
  A) burials, great occasions or for matriculation ceremonies
  B) occasions that are not recurrent
  C) boosting their ego
  D) the purpose of praising their parents
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 2865:

  Fill the gap with the most appropriate option from the list following the gap.

  As you have been here before _____ lead the way?

  Options:
  A) it were better you
  B) it is you who will
  C) you'd better
  D) you would better
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 2866: Choose the option that has a different vowel sound from the others? Options:
  A) rough
  B) dog
  C) cough
  D) rot
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 2867:

  Choose the option that best completes the gap.

  I'll find time for my _________ when I get _________with this difficult assignment.

  Options:
  A) past-time/over
  B) pass-time/over
  C) passtime/through
  D) pastime/through
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 2868: Choose the option that best completes the gap(S).In spite of Shade's good looks, her hair is always _____ ? Options:
  A) unkept
  B) unkempt
  C) unwashed
  D) uncleaned for
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 2869:

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

  The musician's popularity is beginning to decline

  Options:
  A) change
  B) wane
  C) slide
  D) disappear
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 2870: Choose the option that has a different vowel sound from the others. Options:
  A) alter
  B) water
  C) pot
  D) hall
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  The correct answer is C .