English Language JAMB, WAEC, NECO AND NABTEB Official Past Questions

85

Choose the expression or word which best complete each sentences:
David can only become more mature through …. to life outside his home

  • A. posting
  • B. exposure
  • C. exposition
  • D. exposing
  • E. positioning
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86

Choose the expression or word which best complete each sentences:
There is an obvious need to ward …. enemy attacks

  • A. away
  • B. against
  • C. out
  • D. apart
  • E. off
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87

Choose the expression or word which best complete each sentences:

If the company had any delay at the customs office, it was …. their own making

  • A. at
  • B. of
  • C. from
  • D. with
  • E. through
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88

Choose the expression or word which best complete each sentences:
After our series of quarrels, it would be ….to pretend that i have any more regard for him

  • A. hypothetical
  • B. essential
  • C. hypocritical
  • D. necessary
  • E. inevitable
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89

Choose the expression or word which best complete each sentences:
Jane asked James ….

  • A. whether could she meet him later
  • B. could she meet him later
  • C. if she could meet him later
  • D. she could meet him later
  • E. that she could meet him later
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90

Choose the expression or word which best complete each sentence:
The chairman of the company was very sympathetic …. his staff

  • A. to
  • B. at
  • C. for
  • D. from
  • E. on
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91

Choose the expression or word which best complete each sentence:
The project which seemed very near realization …. because of lack of funds

  • A. fell over
  • B. fell through
  • C. fell off
  • D. fell in
  • E. fell down
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92

Choose the expression or word which best complete each sentence:
Walking down the street ….

  • A. the boy was knocked down by a car
  • B. a car knocked the boy down
  • C. the boy was knocked down by car
  • D. a car collided with the boy
  • E. a serious accident happened
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93

Choose the expression or word which best complete each sentence:
The hill behind the town was so steep ….

  • A. that no man could find a foot-hold on
  • B. that any man could find a foot-hold on it
  • C. for no man to find a foot-hold on
  • D. that no man could find a foot-hold on it
  • E. for any man to find a foot-hold on
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94

Choose the expression or word which best complete each sentence:
I saw you walking in that direction but i did not know exactly ….

  • A. where are you going
  • B. where you were going
  • C. where were you going to
  • D. to where were you going
  • E. where you are going
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95

Choose the expression or word which best complete each sentence:

If he had left home earlier, he …. late

  • A. would not be
  • B. would have not be
  • C. would not been
  • D. would have been not
  • E. would not have been
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96

Choose the expression or word which best complete each sentence:

By the end of this year, …. in this town for eleven years

  • A. i'm living
  • B. i'd be living
  • C. i'll live
  • D. i'll have lived
  • E. i have lived
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97

Choose the expression or word which best complete each sentence:
They went to the market and bought a suitcase and …. bag

  • A. a big leather brown
  • B. a leather brown big
  • C. a big brown leather
  • D. a brown big leather
  • E. a leather big brown
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98

Choose the expression or word which best complete each sentence:
My little boy is suffering …. jaundice

  • A. from
  • B. of
  • C. for
  • D. with
  • E. by
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99

Choose the expression or word which best complete each sentence:
The bridge connecting the two cities was …. by the enemy

  • A. blown up
  • B. blown down
  • C. blown off
  • D. blown over
  • E. blown away
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100

Choose the expression or word which best complete each sentence:
….for the team for six years, he decided to join another

  • A. When he played
  • B. Playing
  • C. Having played
  • D. In playing
  • E. when he was playing
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