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

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• Question 81:

  Fill the gap with the most appropriate option from the list following the gap.

  One _____ be too careful these days; times are uncertain and walls have ears?

  Options:
  A) can't
  B) shoudn't
  C) need not
  D) dares not
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 82:

  choose the most appropriate option nearest in meaning to the word(s) underlined.

  Many people believed that such an action is unbecoming of a leader

  Options:
  A) forthcoming
  B) not befitting
  C) unwanted
  D) not necessary
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 83:

  complete the sentences with the correct options from the list below:

  Don't study on the examination day? What did he tell you? He told me _____ on the examination day

  Options:
  A) no studying
  B) don't study
  C) not study
  D) not to study
  E) to not study
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 84:

  For these questions, choose the option that have same vowel sound as the ones represented by the letter (s) underlined:

  famous

  Options:
  A) soup
  B) cook
  C) pilot
  D) colonel
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 85:

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

  He _____ during the whole of last month

  Options:
  A) was sick
  B) has been sick
  C) had been sick
  D) had sicken
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 86:

  Fill the gap with the most appropriate option from the list following the gap.

  Measles _____ no longer impossible to manage these days

  Options:
  A) is
  B) are
  C) were
  D) was
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 87:

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

  A tentative solution was provided?

  Options:
  A) A convincing
  B) A provisional
  C) An amicable
  D) A definite
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 88:

  Choose the one nearest in meaning to the word(s) in bracket.

  This type of response is [typical] of a lazy teacher

  Options:
  A) symptomatic
  B) characteristics
  C) universal
  D) incontestable
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 89:

  In 1968 Nigeria was the world biggest producer of groundnuts (averaging 712,600 tonnes a year), the second producer of cocoa (203, 600 tonnes) after Ghana, the fourth producer of tin (13,264 tonnes) and the biggest producer of columbite. Oil palm, growing wild and in plantation in the south, supplied half the world’s export of palm kernels (407, 200 tonnes) and seventy per cent of the world’s export of palm oil (152, 700tonnes). Nigeria forests covered some 310, 800 square kilometres and produced about 1.132 million cubic metres of timber a year, for export as logs, sawn timber or plywood sheets. Rubber was grown by peasant farmers and, increasingly in plantation; and was partially processed in local factories. The ancient livestock industry of the north still supplies the whole country. About a million cattle are slaughtered annually, and the trade is now being modernized and expanded. As a by-product of the type of skin inaccurately called ‘Moroccan leather’ comes from Nigeria.

  According to the passage Nigeria used to be the be the world's biggest producer of Options:
  A) groundnuts
  B) palm oil
  C) rubber
  D) groundnuts and columbites
  E) palm kernels, groundnuts and cocoa
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  The correct answer is E .
• Question 90:

  choose the most appropriate option nearest in meaning to the word(s) underlined.

  The emphasis placed on good moral conduct by the society in the past seems to have been relaxed

  Options:
  A) avoided
  B) improved
  C) weakened
  D) outdated
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  The correct answer is C .