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

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• Question 3101: Choose the word that has a different stress pattern from the others. Options:
  A) release
  B) exit
  C) exchange
  D) explode
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 3102:

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

  'We are gradually _____ to the end of the programme this afternoon', remarked the chairman of the wedding reception

  Options:
  A) arriving
  B) getting
  C) approaching
  D) going
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 3103:

  Choose the most appropriate stress pattern from the options. The stressed are written in capital letters:

  Judiciary

  Options:
  A) judiCIAry
  B) judiciaRY
  C) JUdiciary
  D) juDIciary
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 3104:

  Complete each of the following sentences by choosing the option that most suitably fills the space;

  My father cannot bear the _____ of the concoction that emanates from my mothers soup pot

  Options:
  A) sweet
  B) savouring
  C) aroma
  D) smell
  E) scent
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 3105:

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

  He accepted a mundane task without hesitation

  Options:
  A) great
  B) lowly
  C) menial
  D) moderate
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 3106: Choose the most appropriate option nearest in meaning to the underlined word(s).What you find in the book is a bird's eye view of the subject? Options:
  A) a detaild account
  B) a balanced discussion
  C) a biased treatment
  D) a general survey
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 3107:

  At the time of trouble in Ireland, a priest said, ‘Man is half beast’, A diplomat replied, ‘Yes. And the beast is the half I like the best’. The priest meant that beasts behave as badly as man when man makes up his mind to behave badly. If you look at the folly and cruelty of today’s world, it is hard to disagree with the diplomat or the priest. But human nature can be changed. Anybody, if that is what they most want to do, can change the most difficult person they know. The art of changing people has been lost in the modern world. That is why the modern world has lost its way.

  There are two ways of looking at human nature. One is to make the best of it and it is assume that it is the raw material of life which cannot be altered. That is what most people in the free world to today. In these circumstances, if you expect the worst, you are seldom disappointed. Faith today has become irrelevant to the everyday needs, of so many people in positions of responsibility because they do not expect faith to change men.

  Another way of dealing with human nature is to exploit it. All materialistic s, whether of the right or the left, do this. All over the world vanity, fear, ambition, lust and greed are used to control the life of men; and if the control breaks down, man does not hesitate to use force, or to destroy life. The end, he says, justifies the means and men are only of value in so far as they are a means towards the achievement of his ambition. If they cannot be bribed or forced to play their part, then they must be liquidated.

  What most people do in the free world today is to Options:
  A) leave other people alone
  B) assume that human nature is bad
  C) accepts human nature as it is since it is immutable
  D) attempt to change the world
  E) leave the world as it is
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 3108:

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

  I wish I _____ your age.

  Options:
  A) to be
  B) were
  C) to have been
  D) would be
  E) could be
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 3109:

  Choose the option that best fills the gap.

  For taking part in the unsuccessful _____, the mutineers were court-martialed.

  Options:
  A) coope
  B) copes
  C) coup
  D) coupe
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 3110:

  Choose the option nearest in meaning to the underlined words :

  Do you have the same aversion as i do for way film?

  Options:
  A) bitterness
  B) dislike
  C) criticism
  D) indignation
  E) preference
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  The correct answer is B .