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

English is the study of the English language. The goal is to improve communication skills by practicing listening, speaking, reading, writing, and understanding language rules like pronunciation, vocabulary, and grammar.

• Question 3711:

  You would think that common cold should be easy enough to study, but it is not as easy as it looks. Colds often seem to spread from one person to another, so it is often assumed that the cold must be infectious but there are some puzzling observations which do not fit with this theory. An investigator in Holland examined some eight thousand volunteers from different areas and came to the conclusion that in each group the colds all appeared at the same time-transfer of infection from case to case not account for that. Yet at the common cold research unit in Salisbury the infection theory has been tested out, two series of about two hundred people each were inoculated, one with salt water and the other with secretion from known cold victims. Only one of the sail-water group got a cold compared with seventy-three in the other group.

  In the British Medical Journal the other day, there was a report of a meeting. ‘The common cold-fact and fancy’, at which one of the speakers reported a study of colds made in Cirencester over the last five years. Three hundred and fifty volunteers had kept diary records of their colds and on an average each had seven every year with an annual morbidity of seventy days. So nearly one-fifth of our lives are spent in more or less misery, coughing and sneezing. Some widely held beliefs about the common cold have turned out to be true. It seems that old people are just as liable to cold as the young. Sailors in isolated weather ships have just as many colds while on board and not in contact with the outside world as when on shore. It is truism that common illnesses pose more problems than the rare. The rare disease is by comparison much easier to handle. There are not so many cases and all of them have been intensively studied. Someone has read up all the literature about the disease and published a digest of it. There will be more facts and fewer fancies.

  The cirencester volunteers kept record of their colds through Options:
  A) the british medical journal
  B) morbility rates
  C) temperature recordings
  D) personal disries
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 3712:

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

  Statesmen are revered for their objectivity

  Options:
  A) referred
  B) respected
  C) remembered
  D) rejected
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 3713:

  Select the option that best explain the information conveyed in the sentence:

  The man's Achilles' heel is women _____.

  Options:
  A) His weakness is women
  B) His strength is women
  C) He fights women
  D) He respects women
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 3714:

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

  Look at the tell-tale signs of battering on her

  Options:
  A) confirming looks
  B) suspicious marks
  C) revealing marks
  D) signifying marks
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 3715: _______your parents frown_______our friendship, we shouldn't see each other anymore. Options:
  A) because/over
  B) since/at
  C) although/at
  D) as/upon
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 3716:

  LEXIS, STRUCTURE AND ORAL FORMS

  In each of this question select the option that best explains the information conveyed in the sentence.

  You need to brush up on your Spanish.

  Options:
  A) you need to improve your skills
  B) you need a brush from Spain
  C) you need to learn to play with a spaniard
  D) you need to study the history of Spain
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 3717:

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

  _____ been no official reaction to your request yet?

  Options:
  A) There's
  B) Theres'
  C) Theirs
  D) Their's
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 3718: Select the option that best explains the information conveyed in the sentence.The class was tired of the new boy jawing away all the times? Options:
  A) He bit off people's jaws
  B) He was always chewing in the class
  C) He was always making trouble for the class
  D) He talked continuously in the class
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 3719:

  Fill the blank spaces with the most appropriate of options A-E:

  There are puddles in the road. It _____

  Options:
  A) rains
  B) will be raining
  C) had to rain
  D) must rain
  E) must have been raining
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  The correct answer is E .
• Question 3720:

  Choose the option that rhymes with the given word.

  Seer?

  Options:
  A) snare
  B) spare
  C) spear
  D) square
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  The correct answer is C .