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 811: Choose the option that best completes the gap(s). He not only looked after the children when their parents died, _____ sponsored their education to university? Options:
  A) but also
  B) also he
  C) but he
  D) also
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 812:

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

  The patient is suffering from ____________.

  Options:
  A) reumatism
  B) rheumantism
  C) rhuematism
  D) rheumatism
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 813:

  If our thoughts is to be clear and we are to succeed in communicating it to other people, we must have some method of fixing the meaning of the words we use. When we use a word whose meaning is not certain, we may well be asked to define it. There is a usual traditional device for doing this by indicating the class to which whatever is indicated by the term belongs and also other particular property which distinguishes it from all other members of the same class. Thus we may define a whale as a ‘marine animal that spouts’. ‘Marine animals’ in this definition indicates the general class to which the whale belongs and ‘spouts’ indicates the particular property that distinguishes whales from other such marine animals as fishes, seals, jellyfish and lobsters. In the same way, we can define an even number as a finite integer divisible by two or a democracy as a system of government in which the people themselves rule.

  there are other ways, of course of indicating the meaning of words. We may for example, find it hard to make a suitable definition of the word ‘animal’, as we say that an animal is such a thing as a rabbit, dog fish or goat. Similarly, we may say that religion is such a system as Christianity, Islam, Judaism and Buddhism. This way of indicating the meaning of a term by enumerating examples of what it includes is obviously of limited usefulness. If we indicate our use of the word ‘animal’ as above, our hearers might for example be doubtful whether a sea-anemone or a slug was to be included in the class of animals. It is however, a useful way of supplementing a definition if the definition itself id definite without being easily understandable. Failure of an attempt at definition to serve its purpose may result from giving as distinguishing mark one which either does not belong to all the things the definition id intended to include, or does belong to some members of the same general class which the definition is intended to exclude.

  Which of the following statements can be deduced from the passage? Options:
  A) definition aid communication when enumeration is accurately handled
  B) accurate definition is invalvable to communication but difficult to achieve
  C) every speaker or writer has a method of defining words
  D) there are both traditional and modern methods of defining words
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 814:

  Select the option that best explain the information conveyed in the sentence:

  The painting was beautifully faked.

  Options:
  A) The painting was a good deceptive replica
  B) The painting was well-framed and displayed
  C) The painting was deceptively decorated
  D) The painting was carefully designed
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 815:

  In the question below select the option that best explains the information conveyed in the sentence:

  Had Aminu been a dull student, his failure wouldn't have surprised anybody

  Options:
  A) Aminu failed and it surprised everybody since he was dull
  B) Aminu was not a dull student and so everybody was surprised that he failed
  C) Because Aminu was a dull, student, everybody was surprised that he failed
  D) Aminu had been a dull student, and so nobody was surprised that he failed
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 816:

  Choose the option nearest in meaning to the word or phrase in italics:

  This event was a watershed in the company.

  Options:
  A) landmark
  B) blot
  C) publicity
  D) stain
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 817:

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

  The lecturer said that we _____ be able to finish the next chapter this evening

  Options:
  A) must
  B) can
  C) shall
  D) should
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 818:

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

  The lecturer maintained his usual good humour in spite of the cat-calls and rude behaviour of his students

  Options:
  A) provoked
  B) obtained
  C) kept
  D) lost
  E) improved
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 819: Choose the option that has a different vowel sound from the others. Options:
  A) there
  B) dear
  C) fair
  D) bear
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 820:

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

  We later on discovered that some members _____ another meeting before the one advertised.

  Options:
  A) were holding
  B) have held
  C) have been holding
  D) had held
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  The correct answer is D .