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

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• Question 21:

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

  I would have been off to see Biola at Festac Town by the time you _____ tomorrow

  Options:
  A) returned
  B) return
  C) are returning
  D) would return
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 22: Choose the option opposite in meaning to the underlined word(s).Salasi's tremendous effort has yield results? Options:
  A) absolute
  B) insignficant
  C) unimaginable
  D) prohabitive
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 23:

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

  One wonders if the situation will improve

  Options:
  A) brighten
  B) diminish
  C) disintegrate
  D) worsen
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 24: Fill the each gap with the most appropriate option from the list option from the list provided.This imposing edifice, _____ a fortune to build? Options:
  A) had costed
  B) have cost
  C) costed
  D) cost
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 25:

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

  A citizen in a democracy can _____ the law if he or she wants to correct an injustice.

  Options:
  A) turn up
  B) bring out
  C) bring up
  D) turn to
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 26:

  Choose the word/expression which best completes each sentence :

  The world bank team which visited the land-lock country _____ a bleak economic future for it

  Options:
  A) forecast
  B) thought of
  C) discovered
  D) prophesied
  E) projected
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 27:

  Answer the following question below and select the option that best explains the information conveyed in the sentence.

  The player wasted a golden opportunity during the penalty shoot-out.

  Options:
  A) The player first hit the bar
  B) The player did not score the shot
  C) The player scored the shot that made them win the gold cup
  D) instead of a silver cup, they received the golden one
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 28: Choose the option that best completes the gap(S).You, who _____ convicted, should appeal. Options:
  A) has been
  B) is
  C) was
  D) are
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 29:

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

  The attitude of my students to _____ baffles me

  Options:
  A) pronunciation
  B) pronounciation
  C) pronouceation
  D) pronounceation
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 30:

  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.

  Primitive man carried a firebrand during his journeys mainly for Options:
  A) illumination
  B) cooking of food
  C) flame perservation
  D) warmth
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  The correct answer is C .