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

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• Question 311:

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

  Although i am watching television. I _____ what you are saying.

  Options:
  A) am hearing
  B) can hear
  C) have heard
  D) was hearing
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 312: The word in capital letter has the emphatic stress. choose the option in which the given sentence relates. My mother bought a BICYCLE yesterday. Options:
  A) When did my mother buy a bicycle?
  B) What did my mother buy yesterday?
  C) Whose mother bought a bicycle yesterday?
  D) Did my mother steal a bicycle yeaterday?
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 313:

  Choose the most appropriate option nearest in meaning to the underlined word.

  The judge took issue with the counsel who complained of double standards?

  Options:
  A) agreed with
  B) argued with
  C) criticized
  D) supported
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 314: This question is based on the novel, The Life Changer.

  The Author of The Life Changer dedicates the novel to whom?

  Options:
  A) her Husband
  B) Her mother
  C) her father
  D) her children
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 315: In the question below choose the option opposite in meaning to the word underlined:The Governor declined to give audience to the journalist. Options:
  A) ignored
  B) accepted
  C) forgot
  D) rejected
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 316: From the alternatives provided in the questions given, select the one which most appropriately completes the sentence. The... should make ...for them as soon as possible. Options:
  A) committee/accommodation
  B) committe/accomodation
  C) committee/accomodation
  D) committee/accmodation
  E) committee/accomondation
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 317: Choose the option opposite in meaning to the underlined word(s).The injured man is determined to get back at his assailant Options:
  A) attack
  B) identify
  C) visit
  D) forgive
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 318:

  Choose the most appropriate option nearest in meaning to the underlined words.

  Smiling broadly, she explained why she always took exception to being referred to as his wife?

  Options:
  A) objected to
  B) preferred very much
  C) felt specially honoured by
  D) liked nothing except
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 319:

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

  You can never find Okwu; he is a very _____ person

  Options:
  A) delusive
  B) elusive
  C) illusive
  D) deceptive
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 320:

  Choose the most appropriate option opposite in meaning to the underlined words.

  We admire the minister's passionate and dynamic characteristics?

  Options:
  A) cruel and passive
  B) kind and forceful
  C) passive charmless
  D) charmless and cruel
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  The correct answer is A .