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

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• Question 3811:

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

  Because our representative is immature and biased he takes a jaundiced view of our problem

  Options:
  A) hazy
  B) unclear
  C) prejudiced
  D) bleak
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 3812:

  From the words lettered A to D, choose the word that rhymes with the given word.

  Phone

  Options:
  A) frown
  B) grown
  C) gown
  D) brown
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 3813: In the question below choose the option nearest in meaning to the word or phrase underlined: What he received from the visitors was invaluable Options:
  A) priceless
  B) worthless
  C) valueless
  D) costly
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 3814:

  Choose from the options nearest in meaning to the word underlined.

  The essay topic is nebulous?

  Options:
  A) vague
  B) incorrect
  C) distinct
  D) clear
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 3815:

  So far I have been speaking of science in its universality, viewed from the perspective of the world at large. For the context of our own country and our sister developing countries, many of the factors mentioned earlier are not very important. For example, pollution, deterioration of the environment and population explosion are not yet serious problems for us in this country.

  Let me now turn to a more specific area, namely the question of scientific choice for developing countries. There is no doubt that role which science s and technology have played in the upliftment of the material and economic well-being of the developed nation will, and does, influence the criteria that the Third World nations must choose in order to establish their science policies and priorities.

  But the criteria to be used by this nation do not have the same as those which have brought the developed countries to their present stage of evolution. For while human beings have the same problems, their solutions, to be meaningful will have to be sought within some relevant frame of reference, such as the available resources and expertise, social values, place and time in the historical scale.

  The term 'our sister developing countries' implies Options:
  A) Britain, Gambia and Canada
  B) Ghana, Germany and Togo
  C) Russia, Switzerland and America
  D) Liberia, Sierra Leone and Gabon
  E) China, India and Holland
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 3816:

  Select the option that best explains the information conveyed in the sentence.

  Most of the time, their presence is a menace?

  Options:
  A) Their presence isw always meaningful
  B) Their presence is seldom a bother
  C) Their presence is ussually of great concern
  D) Their presence is frequently a threat
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 3817:

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

  I am yet to write the penultimate paragraph of my essay

  Options:
  A) last but one
  B) third to the last
  C) second
  D) concluding
  E) introductory
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 3818:

  Answer the following question below and choose the option opposite in meaning to the underlined word or phrase in.

  We were shocked by the news that he had lost the money.

  Options:
  A) astonished
  B) unconcerned
  C) disconcerted
  D) surprised
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 3819:

    ADUKE: Listen my fellow women. The issue has little to do with being literate or not. It is true that most members of NAM (New Awareness Movement) are literate, but this does not make all of us enlightened. We must be able to draw a line between the two. You may be literate and yet possess a consciousness that is decadent and servile. On the other hand you may not have received formal education and yet may be the greatest exponent of progressive ideas.

    HASANA: I agree with what our sister has said. Let us not allow ourselves to be divided by a greedy and an inflated notion of the certificates we possess. In this century, as we march towards the year 2000, our primary concern should be how best to improve the lot of womanhood in our society. Let us not forget that for each woman who is beaten up by her man for flimsy reasons are status of all of us here is downgraded. For each woman who is insulted for no reason than that of her sex, every one of us here is spat on in the face. For each woman who is denied opportunities in the society simply because she is a woman, the whole lot of us are dehumanized. Each widow in this society is an everywoman, and the lot of each of us should be viewed as collective. Each rotten egg that is thrown at anyone of us is an eternal splash of dirt on our faces. Each decayed tomato that is cast at her is a collective curse on our fecundity: each pebble thrown at her, a missile against our womanhood. This is an age of awareness, and it is the duty of NAM to collectively rise in defence of the right of women.

    IME: We can no longer allow ourselves to be fried alive. We are going to squeeze ourselves into tight-fitting trousers, register into judo classes, and then file out into the street and punch the face of every man we behold.

  Hasana believes that NAM should not be divided by Options:
  A) The worthless certificates which women possess
  B) Inflation and greed
  C) A misunderstanding of the worth of their certificates
  D) A selfish and over-raced belief in their certificates
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 3820:

  This question is based on Chukwuemeka Ike's The Potter's Wheel.

  In the novel the 'pad' was a symbol of

  Options:
  A) Success
  B) Unity
  C) Failure
  D) Love
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  The correct answer is C .