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 861:
  The passage below has gaps numbered 6 to 15. Immediately following each gap are provided. Choose the most appropriate option for each gap.

  Before any detailed analysis begins, the first thing to do with the data is to check through the field record book and questionnaires for any……..6……[A. records B. events C. odds D. mistakes], inconsistencies and incompleteness. In some cases, it may be possible to correct any discovered shortcomings. When it is possible to carry out these……..7……[A. plans B. possibilities C. corrections D. expectations].

  In most scientific……8…..[A. experiment B. data C. conclusion D. questionnaires] such revisits are clearly impossible. This is true of many surveys too. A road traffic survey…….9……[A. conducted B. experimented C. classified D. precoded] to find out the amount and frequency of daily traffic between two towns cannot be expected to be……..10…..[A. reproducible B. undertaken C. observed D. produced]. There is no way of going back to check whether the number of vehicles reported for any particular hour is correct or not. With open-ended questions the……11…..[A. methods B. responses C. errors D. conclusion] have to be classified into relatively small number of groups. The process of classifying answers and of sometimes identifying them by number and letter is called…….12…….[A. recording B. recoding C. encoding D. coding]. When closed-ended questions are used, it is possible to code all the possible answers before they are actually received. This is called……..13…..[A. precoding B. coding C. encoding D. recoding]. What is done, a check through the answers for proper classification, numbering and lettering is still called for at this stage. This whole process of checking through questionnaires and notebooks is called……14…..[A. editing B. posting C. listing D. auditing]. Collected data will eventually have to be used in drawing……15…..[A. references B. examples C. conclusions D. analogies] and writing a report about the population from which it came.

  In question number 8 above, choose the best option from the letters A-D that best completes the gap. Options:
  A) experiment
  B) data
  C) conclusion
  D) questionaires
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 862:

  In the question below, choose the option nearest in meaning to the word or phase in italics.
  That fateful decision changed the company's outlook in many ways.

  Options:
  A) wonderful
  B) disastrous
  C) uncontrollable
  D) unsuccessful
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 863: Choose from the options nearest in meaning to the word underlined.As the triumphant rebels were returning to their base they met with a serious reverse? Options:
  A) a defeat
  B) an enemy
  C) an army
  D) a victory
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 864:

  Choose the option that complete the gap(s).

  Government should invest more in _____ training?

  Options:
  A) teacher's
  B) teacher
  C) teachers
  D) teachers'
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 865:

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

  He was determined to _____ all position into submission.

  Options:
  A) push
  B) cow
  C) box
  D) pound
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 866:

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

  My little daughter has _____ sights; hence she now wears glasses

  Options:
  A) diminutive
  B) blurred
  C) painful
  D) defective
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 867:

  The employer, not the sales boy and his partner ........ responsible for the loss

  Options:
  A) are
  B) are being
  C) are never
  D) is
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 868:

  Choose the option nearest in meaning to the underlined words :

  Do you have the same aversion as i do for way film?

  Options:
  A) bitterness
  B) dislike
  C) criticism
  D) indignation
  E) preference
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 869:

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

  Four persons accused of currency _____ are being held by the security agents

  Options:
  A) traficking
  B) traviking
  C) trafficking
  D) traffiking
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 870:

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

  Language teachers believe that grammar exercise stretch the mind

  Options:
  A) expand
  B) ruin
  C) enrich
  D) restrict
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  The correct answer is D .