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

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• Question 51:

  For this question, choose the option opposite in meaning to the word or phrase in italics:

  He walks in a gawky way.

  Options:
  A) suitable
  B) clumsy
  C) lumbering
  D) graceful
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 52: Choose the option that best completes the gap(s).Each of the houses _____ a new look? Options:
  A) have got
  B) have
  C) has
  D) were given
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 53:

  I was to remember my first day at Freedom University for a long time. On arrival on campus, I expected to be met by some stale students (as was the practice in my secondary school) but every student around was new like myself. I asked the way to Grant Hall but not one could tell me. I asked a number of other questions about issues that bothered me, such as where and how to pay the fees, the way to the dining hall and so on but no help was forthcoming. So in the midst of so many people, I am all alone, I mused to myself. The prospect was not in the least cheerful and all the elation I had felt at gaining entry into a renowned university at sixteen been to disappear. Then so if propelled by an unknown benevolent force, I walked a little bit down the corridor in the direction of notice board at which some ten young men and women were peering. For want of something to do, I decided to stop and look at the notice board. Alas! I had opened on the key to all the riddles that had dribbled me since I set foot on campus that morning. On the board there was a big campus map in which I was able to locate Grant Hall and other places of interest, there were details of various activities lined up for the three days of orientation for freshmen and a comprehensive list of those offered admission into various courses. How blissful I felt to see the light of knowledge , having been wallowing in the darkness of ignorance. Even then I was not able to escape the thought that I could not be sure how much of the responsibility for the darkness was mine, the fact that something had not been done to draw attention to 5that apocalypse of the notice board had contributed clearly to my initial predicament. All that notwithstanding, I learnt from the incident an importance of reading notice boards and handbills if one is to be informed about places and events in the university.

  In the passage,'the darkness of ignorance' refers to the Options:
  A) state of the writer before he found the notice board
  B) ignorance of illiterates
  C) ignorance of those who have not been to university
  D) fact that he was a freshman
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 54:

  Manager: Mr.Mbu, I would not describe you as an inefficient worker; I therefore find it difficult to understand why the conference room is so untidy, in spite of the fact that I had reminded you of the meeting scheduled to take place there this afternoon.

  Secretary: Sir, I did instruct the cleaner to tidy up the place before meeting

  Manager: Are you trying to hold the cleaner responsible for the untidy condition of the room?

  Secretary: Partly, sir, I gave him an instruction which he failed to carry out. It is certainly my intention to make a formal complaint against him for dereliction of duty.

  Manager: And would you wash your hands off any blame after that? Do you think that just making a formal complaint against the cleaner absolves you of all blame? When do you consider an assignment as properly executed; when the execution is properly supervised or not? Was it sufficient for you to give instruction to the cleaner with out ensuring that he actually carried them out?

  Secretary: Sir, I do not see what else I could have done, short of doing the job myself. The cleaner Is a six-footer and I could not have intimidated him physically.

  Manager: I see, I await your complaints against the cleaner, but I shall not forget that you allowed a board meeting to take place in an untidy conference room.

  The secretary's attitude seems to be Options:
  A) manager sir, you empolyed this huge and recalcitrant cleaner and i am not to do his job for him
  B) it is not the duty of a secretary to enforce the instruction he gives to his junior workers
  C) i am a secretary by profession not a cleaner
  D) it is not terribly important how tidy the conference room is for the meeting
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 55:

  Choose the word(s) or phrase(s) which best fill(s) the gap.

  We saw Ifueko ____________ an egg on the wall.

  Options:
  A) smashed
  B) smash
  C) smashing
  D) smashes
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 56:

  Choose the word/expression which best completes each sentence :

  The Land Decree does not concern itself with achieving _____ in landed property ownership, since those who already own large estates can keep them for good

  Options:
  A) equality
  B) balance
  C) fifty-fifty
  D) sanity
  E) efficiency
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 57: Choose the option that best completes the gap(S).The public library has stopped _____. books to readers? Options:
  A) borrowing
  B) lending
  C) renting
  D) loaning
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 58: Choose the option opposite in meaning to the underlined word(s).The lecture seemed interminable? Options:
  A) unending
  B) boring
  C) interesting
  D) brief
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 59:

  In each of the following questions, the main or primary stress is indicated by writing the syllable on which it occurs in capital letters.

  From the words lettered A to D, choose the one that has the correct stress

  Expenditure

  Options:
  A) EX-pen-di-ture
  B) ex-PEN-di-ture
  C) ex-pen-DI-ture
  D) ex-pen-di-TURE
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 60:

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

  The officer has discussed the vexed issue of incessant power failure?

  Options:
  A) IN anger the officer explained th eproblem of constant power failure
  B) The officer added his voice to the much discussed proble of power cut
  C) The officer's explanations angered those failure who-have suffered the effects of frequent power failure
  D) The officer told the people not to be angered by the frequent power cut
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  The correct answer is B .