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

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• Question 3981: Choose the most appropriate option opposite in meaning to the word underlined word(s).Once he has decided that something needs doing, my brother is very unswerving of purpose? Options:
  A) erratic
  B) tenacious
  C) stubborn
  D) simple
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 3982:

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

  To be above board is to be

  Options:
  A) afloat
  B) on top of a plank
  C) above suspicion
  D) raised above a board
  E) the chairman of a board
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 3983:

  Choose the option that best completes the gap(s).

  The school authority dismissed him for _____ but I won't tell you about it yet?

  Options:
  A) certain reason
  B) a reason
  C) more reason
  D) a certain reason
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 3984:

  Choose the option nearest in meaning to the underlined word(s).

  There must be something sinister about her late arrival.

  Options:
  A) reasonable
  B) joyful
  C) hopeful
  D) ominous
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 3985:

  Choose the option nearest in meaning to the underlined word.

  The charge brought against my brother was hardly tenable?

  Options:
  A) sensible
  B) defensible
  C) meaningful
  D) flimsy
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 3986: Fill each gap with the most appropriate option from the lists provided.One advantage of the English language in Nigeria is that it puts everyone _____. a common _____. ? Options:
  A) at /equality
  B) on / footing
  C) in / standing
  D) in / advantage
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 3987:

  Choose the option that best completes the gap(s).

  He ______ the picture on the table?

  Options:
  A) laid
  B) lay
  C) lied
  D) lain
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 3988:

  In the question below choose the option opposite in meaning to the word(s) Underlined:

  Unless we see the evils clearly, contending against them is like fighting the air

  Options:
  A) avoiding
  B) strugglling with
  C) combating
  D) repelling
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 3989:

  By 1910, the motor car was plainly conquering the highway. The private car was now part of every rich man’s establishment, although its price made it as yet an impossible luxury for most of the middle class. But for the adventuresome youth, there was the motor cycle, a fearsome invention producing accidents and ear-splitting noises. Already the dignified carriages and smart pony-traps were beginning to disappear from the roads and coachmen and grooms unless mechanically minded, were finding it more difficult to make a living.

  The roads which had gone to sleep since the coming of the railway now awoke to feverish activity. Cars and motor cycles dashed along them at speeds which rivalled those of the express trains and the lorry began to appear. Therefore, the road system was compelled to adapt itself to a volume and speed of traffic for which it had never intended. Its complete adaptation was impossible, but the road surface was easily transformed and during the early years of the century, the dustiness and greasiness of the highways were lessened by tar-spraying. To widen and straighten the roads and get rid of blind corners and every steep gradient were tasks which had scarcely been tackled before 1914. the Situation was worst of all in towns where not only was any large scheme of road widening usually out of the question, but also where crowding and danger were all too frequently increased by the short-sighted eagerness of town authorities in laying down tramlines.

  Yet, it was not only the road system that was in need of readjustment; the nervous system who used and dwelt by the road suffered. The noises caused by the conversion of the roads into speedways called for a corresponding lightening up of the nerves and especially I the towns, the pedestrian who wished to preserve life and limb was compelled to keep his attention continually on the stretch to practise himself in estimates of the speed of approaching vehicles and to run or jump for his life if he ventured off the pavement.

  The writer seems to suggest that Options:
  A) the roads that existed were dormant
  B) coachmen and grooms were not mechanically minded
  C) there were no roads before the advent of cars and motor cycles and so people had to be mechanically minded
  D) the volume and speed of traffic on the roads increased with the advent of cars, motorcycles and lorries
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 3990:

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

  _____ to your request, we have decided to provide the necessary information

  Options:
  A) As regards
  B) With regards
  C) With regard
  D) Regarding
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  The correct answer is B .