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

English is the study of the English language. The goal is to improve communication skills by practicing listening, speaking, reading, writing, and understanding language rules like pronunciation, vocabulary, and grammar.

• Question 641:

  In the question below choose the option opposite in meaning to the word underlined:

  The hostess greeted her guests in a very relaxed manner

  Options:
  A) energetic
  B) athletic
  C) stiff
  D) perplexed
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 642:

  When Thomas Jefferson wrote in the American Declaration of independence that ‘all men are created equal’, he was not seeking to describe men’s endowments, but their political and legal rights. He was not saying that men do not differ from one another in the powers and dimensions of their bodies, minds and characters. He was asserting that despite variations and differences, they all possessed the right to equal political and legal treatment. We must however, ask of what real values are political and legal equality to a man who has no bread to eat , no clothes to wear, no roof to shelter him, no chance to earn a livelihood? What we understand as a democratic society must provide for its citizen’s minimum status protection in his deprivation, losses and fears.

  In our time, the nations of the democratic world have installed elaborate system of social security and welfare, ranging from compensation for industrial accidents to subsidize housing, unemployment insurance, old age pension, psychiatric care and national health services. It is encouraging that the democratic nations are making a serious effort to provide against the characteristic losses and disasters of human life.

  The evolving status of the Negro in America is attracting the attention of the champions of equality. Much has been written on the wrongs, injustice and inequalities of the coloured citizen of the USA and much remains to be said because the history of this struggle for human rights is still unfolding.

  A suitable tittle for the passage is Options:
  A) democracy
  B) discrimination
  C) equality
  D) freedom
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 643:

  In the question below, choose the expression or word which best completes each sentence:

  The School Board has placed an order for _____

  Options:
  A) all the furnitures and equipments required in the new schools
  B) all the furniture and equipment required in the new schools
  C) all of the furniture and equipments required in the new school
  D) many of the furnitures and equipment required in the new school
  E) many of the furnitures and equipments required in the new schools
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 644:

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

  The new Inspector decide that the culprits should be brought to book

  Options:
  A) should have their names recorded in a book
  B) should be brought before hin to show whether they could read or not
  C) should be booked
  D) should be jailed
  E) should be made to answer for their conduct
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  The correct answer is E .
• Question 645:

  Farming is the most important aspect of agriculture that has attracted attention within the last few years. Agriculture has several other aspects like fishery, livestock and poultry. All these are also important in that they have to do with the production of food items which human beings consume for survival.

  In many parts of world today, farming has been regarded as the mainstay of the economy. Crops such as cocoa, rubber and cotton have been produced in such commercial quantity that they are sold to other countries. Some countries have a better comparative advantage in producing certain farm crops than other countries. In these other countries, there is the need to spend a lot of money on agriculture, particularly farming. Most farmers use outmoded tools. A lot of them have no place to store their crops, most of which are always destroyed by insects and pests before harvest time. All these have adverse effects on their productivity.

  The government can do a lot to help farmers. Farmers’ co-operative societies can be encouraged and loans can be made available to farmers through government institutions, like banks and finance corporations. Farmers can be taught how to build good storage structures for their produce. All these and a lot more can help to improve the condition of farming in these countries.

  Farming in many countries today is Options:
  A) an alternative to poultry
  B) of great assistance to the economy
  C) for those who are out of jobs
  D) for the illiterates
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 646:

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

  The young man has _____ to sober _____after being drunk?

  Options:
  A) began / up
  B) begun / in
  C) begun / up
  D) began / down
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 647: 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 648:

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

  My eldest brother is now faced with the vicissitudes of married life?

  Options:
  A) amazement
  B) sweetness
  C) amiability
  D) stability
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 649:

  Choose the most appropriate stress pattern from the options. The stressed syllable are written in capital letters(s).

  political

  Options:
  A) politiCAL
  B) POlitical
  C) poliTIcal
  D) poLItical
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 650:

  In question below fill the gap with the appropriate option:

  Before mechanization, workers _____ water out of fabrice with their hands

  Options:
  A) wring
  B) wrung
  C) wrang
  D) wringed
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  The correct answer is B .