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

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• Question 701:

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

  The contractors were short _____ cash even before the project was completed

  Options:
  A) in
  B) for
  C) with
  D) of
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 702: Select the option that best explains the information conveyed in the sentence.In many countries, democracy is ostensibly being practiced? Options:
  A) democracy is indeed being inmany countries
  B) many countries have effective democracy
  C) many countries have democracy in practice
  D) democracy is apparently practiced in many countries
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 703:

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

  Because of the _____ he did to my car, i am going to sue him for _____

  Options:
  A) damage/damages
  B) damages/damage
  C) damages/damages
  D) damage/damage
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 704:

  From the words lettered A to D below, choose the word or group of words that is nearest in meaning to the underlined word as it is used in the passage.

  Mr. Brown is often described as an astute businessman

  Options:
  A) shrewd
  B) miserly
  C) proud
  D) thrifty
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 705:

  In order to approach the problem of anxiety in play, let us consider the activity of building and destroying a tower. Many a mother thinks that her son is in a ‘destructive stage’ or even has a ‘destructive personality’ because after building a big, big tower, the boy cannot follow her advice to leave the tower for Daddy to see, but instead must kick it and make it collapse. The almost manic pleasure with which children watch the collapse in a second of the product of long play-labor has puzzles many, especially since the child does not appreciate it at all if his tower falls by accident or by a helpful uncle’s hand. He, the builder must destroy it himself. This game, I should think arises from the not so distant experience of sudden falls at the very time when standing upright on wobbly legs afforded a new and fascinating perspective on existence. The child who consequently learns to make a tower ‘stand up’ enjoys causing the same tower to waver and collapse; in addition to the active mastery over a previous passive event, it makes one feel stronger to know that there is somebody weaker-and towers, unlike little sister, can’t cry and call ‘mummy’

  How does the author try to explain this 'destructive stage'? Options:
  A) it is the last stage in child development
  B) the child wants to displease his parents
  C) it grows out of the child's recent experience of sudden falls
  D) the child is just going through a destructive stage
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 706:

  In question below fill the gap with the appropriate option:

  Many people believe that nuclear power will solve our energy problems _____ , this has not been proved to be true

  Options:
  A) Indeed
  B) But
  C) However
  D) On the contrary
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 707:

  read each passage and answer the question that follow

  The great herald of things to come was Ezekiel, not only in the sense that he predicted the future, but also became in the manner and content of his prophetic ministry, he foreshadowed many of the important religious developments, which were characteristics of the age after the Exile.

  He, rather than Ezra, was the founder of Judaism. He not only pointed forward; but as well shall see, he represented some of the great elements in Israel’s religious past.

  The book which bears his name is outwardly impressive in its orderliness and symmetry and in the careful chronologic al arrangement of its contents. It purports to present the record of prophecies uttered in the Babylonian Exile between 593 and 571 B.C and for long this was not seriously questioned. Even when other prophetic books have been dissected and assigned to sundry authors and editors, this book continued to be regarded by most scholars as having come into its entirety from Ezekiel. Then came a period in which many extreme theories were advanced , assigning much of it to other hands or presupposing complicated processes of editorial revision, or dating the book to a period much later than the Babylonian Exile, or maintaining that Ezekiel’s ministry was not exercised in Babylonia but in Palestine, or at least was begun there. Such theories have been subjected to damaging criticism and are now somewhat discredited. The account of Ezekiel’s ministry and teaching is based on the view that he lived and worked among the exile in Babylonia, at the period indicated, and the bulk of the material in the book comes from him, though, like other prophetic collections, it owes much in its complication, arrangement and transmission to prophetic disciple

  In his work, Ezekiel Options:
  A) was friendly with Ezra
  B) founded Judaism in conhjuction with Ezra
  C) had a large religious following
  D) forged a link between the past and the future
  E) demostrated that he was a man of God
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 708: Choose the word or phrase from options A-E which has nearest in meaning to the underlined word or words in each sentence:
  He should be able to do it alone. Options:
  A) He would be able to do it alone
  B) He ought to be able to do it alone
  C) He may be able to do it alone
  D) He has to be able to do it alone
  E) He will do it alone
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 709:

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

  Statesmen are revered for their objectivity

  Options:
  A) referred
  B) respected
  C) remembered
  D) rejected
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 710:

  choose the option nearly opposite in meaning to the word(s) underlined

  The lady has devised a means of tackling her current challenges.

  Options:
  A) attacking
  B) avoiding
  C) handling
  D) suspending
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  The correct answer is B .