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

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• Question 41:

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

  Many streets in the town _____ in need of lights at night

  Options:
  A) stand
  B) stood
  C) have stood
  D) are standing
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 42:

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

  The Minister has finally been dropped from the present cabinet because of his ignoble act?

  Options:
  A) criminal
  B) ignorant
  C) honourable
  D) selfish
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 43:

  Choose the word that has an opposite meaning to the one in bracket for questions below.

  The [prodigious] building was razed to the carpet level yesterday

  Options:
  A) ramshackle
  B) modern
  C) colossal
  D) mini-sized
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 44:

  READ THE PASSAGE CAREFULLY AND ANSWER THE QUESTIONS THAT FOLLOW.

  With its radiant color and plant-like shape, the sea anemone looks more like a flower than animal. More specifically, the sea anemone is formed quite like a flower for which is named, with body like a stem and tentacles like petals in brilliant shades; blue, pink, green and red. Its diameters vary from about six millimeters in some species to more than ninety centimeters in the giant verities of Australia. Like corals, hydras and jelly fish, sea anemones are coelenterates. They can move slowly, but more often they attach the lower part of their cylindrical bodies to rocks, shells or wharf pilings.

  The upper and end of the sea anemone has a mouth surrounded by tentacles which the animal uses to capture its food. Stinging cells in the tentacles throw out tiny poison threads that paralyze other small sea animals. The tentacles then drag this prey into the sea anemone's mouth.The food is digested in the large inner body cavity. When disturbed, a sea anemone retracts its lump on a rock. Anemones may reproduce by forming eggs. dividing in half or developing buds that grow and break off as independent animals.

  The author compares sea anemone's tentacles to a flower

  Options:
  A) stem
  B) petals
  C) leaves
  D) roots
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 45: The author uses the novel to portray some of the Options:
  A) NGO's activities only
  B) environment conditions
  C) feelings of teachers only
  D) societal problems
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 46:

  Choose the expression or word which best complete each sentence:

  I saw you walking in that direction but i did not know exactly _____

  Options:
  A) where are you going
  B) where you were going
  C) where were you going to
  D) to where were you going
  E) where you are going
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 47: Choose the option nearest in meaning to the underlined word(s).His taciturnity amazed everyone in the court during the legal tussle? Options:
  A) obliviousness
  B) sensibilty
  C) reticence
  D) pervasiveness
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 48:

  Choose the word that is opposite in meaning to the underlined word.

  Okonkwo's lethal right foot the magic in the football match?

  Options:
  A) weak
  B) wicked
  C) fat
  D) harmless
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 49:

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

  My brother does not have a flair _____ mathematics.

  Options:
  A) for
  B) in
  C) at
  D) of
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 50:

  Choose the option that has the same vowel sound as the one represented by the underlined letters.

  Indict?

  Options:
  A) bright
  B) fish
  C) pick
  D) brick
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  The correct answer is A .