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

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• Question 711:

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

  My father is a very prosperous businessman

  Options:
  A) ungrateful
  B) unscrupulous
  C) unskilful
  D) unsuccessful
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 712:

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

  _____ a good film. Wasn’t it?

  Options:
  A) It is
  B) Was it
  C) There is
  D) It was
  E) There was
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 713:

  Fill the blank spaces with the most appropriate of options A-E:

  X: How do you want to be paid _____ in cash or by cheque? Y: They asked him _____ in cash or by cheque

  Options:
  A) how he wanted to be paid
  B) whether he wanted to be paid
  C) how he wants the money
  D) how to pay
  E) how did he want to be paid
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  The correct answer is E .
• Question 714:

  Is work for prisoners a privilege to save them from the demoralizing effects and misery of endless unoccupied hour? Is it something added to a prison sentence to make it harder and more unpleasant, or something which should have a positive value as part of a system of rehabilitation?

  Those magistrates who clung to a sentence of hard labour doubtless looked upon strenuous work as an additional punishment. This point of view is widely accepted as right and proper, but it ignores the fact that unwillingness to work is often one of the immediate causes of criminality. To send prisoners back to the outside world, more than ever convinced that labour is an evil to be avoided, it to confirm them in their old way of life. It has been said that the purposed of prison work in a programme of rehabilitation is twofold: training for work and training by work. The prisoner, that is to say, needs to be trained in habits of industry; but over and above this, he will gain immeasurably if it is possible to rouse in him the consciousness of self-mastery and of purpose that the completion of any worthwhile piece of work can give to the doer. He may find the pride of achievement in something more satisfying, and more socially desirable, than crime. But these things can only come when the work itself has a purpose and demands an effort.

  The author thinks that strenuous work in prison Options:
  A) is a privilege for the prisoners
  B) may do more harm than good
  C) is part of their punishment
  D) is a right and proper thing
  E) should be an additional punishment
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 715:

  Choose the correct word to fill the space in the following sentences:

  There is a filling station _____ the corner, to your right

  Options:
  A) about
  B) by
  C) from
  D) around
  E) to
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 716:

  The passage below has gaps numbered 16 – 25. Immediately following each gap, four options are provided. Choose the most appropriate option for each gap

  When a mother is afraid that her child would die when it has only a pimple or a slight headache, we speak of anxiety. But if she is afraid when the child has a serious illness, we call her reaction ….16…. [A. hysteria B. xenophobia C. fear D. foolish]. If someone is afraid whenever he stands on a height or when he has to discuss ….17…. [A. workshop B. a seminar C. a topic D. an exercise] he knows well, we call his reaction ….18…. [A. incompetence B. anxiety C. anger D. immaturity]; if someone is afraid when he loses his way high up the mountain during a heavy thunderstorm, we would seek of ….19…. [A trepidation B. ignorance C. depression D. apprehension]. Thus far, we have a simple and near distinction between the two, namely, one is a reaction that is proportionate to the danger one has to face whereas the other is ….20…. [A. an unrelated B. a dissimilar C. an equal D. an unparalleled] reaction to danger or even a reaction to ….21…. [A. imaginary B. unrealistic C. ominous D. unusual] danger. This distinction has one ….22…. [A. direction B. flavor C. flaw D. meaning], however, which is that the decision ….23…. [A as to B. as from C. as in D. as of] whether the reaction is proportionate depends on the average knowledge existing in the particular ….24…. [A. medium B. culture C. feature D. institution]. But, even if that knowledge proclaims a certain attitude to be unfounded, a neurotic will find no difficulty in giving his action a ….25…. [A. rational B. reactional C. proactive D. radical] foundation.

  In question number 17 above choose the best option from letters A- D that best complete the gap Options:
  A) workshop
  B) a seminar
  C) a topic
  D) an excercise
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 717:

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

  Her identification with the king is publicly known

  Options:
  A) hatred
  B) disassociation
  C) relationship
  D) intimacy
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 718:

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

  'I do not trust him', he said, in a rare moment of candour.

  Options:
  A) reproach
  B) dishonesty
  C) frankness
  D) fairness
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 719:

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

  He looked _____ everyone in authority as an enemy

  Options:
  A) on
  B) at
  C) in
  D) about
  E) against
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 720:

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

  The committee was disgusted _____ the way the office was being run

  Options:
  A) at
  B) by
  C) with
  D) over
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  The correct answer is C .