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

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• Question 4051:

  In the question below choose the word or phrase which best fills the gap in each sentence:

  Mary goes to school _____ bus

  Options:
  A) in
  B) on
  C) with
  D) through
  E) by
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  The correct answer is E .
• Question 4052:

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

  My classmate _____ I haven't seen for years, wrote to me last week?

  Options:
  A) whose
  B) which
  C) that
  D) whom
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 4053:

  Over the years there has been this hue and cry by government and the public policy advisers against the phenomenon of the rural-urban drift. Researches have been conducted on various aspects of this phenomenon which have resulted in the identification of the various causes and consequences of drift. In addition, prescriptions have been given for controlling the rural-urban drift.

  Among the causes most often mentioned are population pressures in some rural areas resulting in dwindling farm lands; increase in school enrollment and the resultant rise in education levels which qualify many people for urban employment, higher wages in the urban centres relative to rural centres and the rather naïve one of the ‘bright lights’ in the cities so much touted by early foreign sociologists.

  The most often mention consequences of this rural-urban migration includes depopulation of the rural area leading to overcrowding of the cities and the resultant housing and sanitation problems; decline in the agricultural population resulting in less food crops being grown and high food prices in the cities, and increasing urban unemployment. The results of the phenomenon are seen largely as negative

  Measures to control the rural-urban drift includes the establishment of essential amenities like water, electricity, hospitals, colleges, and cinema houses; the location of employment generating establishment and the building of good interconnecting roads.

  The sum total of these prescriptions in essence, unwittingly or paradoxically, is for the rural areas to be transformed into urban centres. This is so because to industrialize the rural areas would draw many more people out of agriculture than if industries were restricted to urban centres

  When industries are located in the rural areas, it involves much less cost for the prospective rural-urban migrant to change to a non-agricultural job, than is involved in his leaving a rural abode for a distance urban centre.

  Therefore, rural industrialization holds a higher potential for the de-agriculturalization of the rural population than when industries are concentrated in urban areas.

  The phenomenon of rural-urban migration has been intensively and extensively researched and studied, but it would seem that it has largely been misinterpreted and misunderstood. Consequently public policies on the subject have been misdirected.

  Migration in large number is said to result in Options:
  A) juvenile deliquency
  B) a fall in the production of food, accomodation and health in the cities
  C) highway robbery
  D) difficulty of life in rural areas
  E) mental stress by parents and relations
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 4054: Choose from the options nearest in meaning to the word underlined.The man was able to persuade his willful and obstinate daughter to follow the career he chose for her? Options:
  A) intelligent but arrogant
  B) unyielding and obdurate
  C) secure and odious
  D) hardworking and intelligent
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 4055:

  Choose the option nearest in meaning to the italicized words or expressions.

  The police later discovered that Audu feigned death.

  Options:
  A) Cheated
  B) Assumed
  C) Suggested
  D) Faked
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 4056: In the question below choose the option opposite in meaning to the word(s) Underlined:It is generally believed that misers are not loved by many Options:
  A) spendthrifts
  B) spenders
  C) hoarders
  D) savers
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 4057:

  fill in the blank spaces in the following sentences making use of the best of the five options :

  The passenger waited patiently whilst they transferred his …. from the taxi to the bus.

  Options:
  A) Properties
  B) Baggages
  C) Luggage
  D) Luggages
  E) Property
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 4058:

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

  The police ran the criminal to earth

  Options:
  A) jailed him
  B) knocked him down
  C) discovered him
  D) buried him
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 4059:

  Choose the appropriate option to fill the gap in the following sentences:

  No sooner had the examination ended _____ the students started vacating the halls of residence

  Options:
  A) when
  B) that
  C) than
  D) before
  E) and
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 4060:

  Choose the option which is nearest in meaning to the sentences in each of the following questions:

  I can walk that distance and have done so many times

  Options:
  A) I am used to walk that distance
  B) I used to walk that distance
  C) I used to walking that distance
  D) I am used to walking that distance
  E) I will walk that distance
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  The correct answer is D .