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

64

Fill in the gap with the most appropriate option from the list provided?

Immediately I entered the house, I could ……..the smell of gas from the kitchen?

  • A. feel
  • B. hear
  • C. detect
  • D. smell
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65

Fill in the gap with the most appropriate option from the list provided?

The principal expressed his …… when the students broke the rules ……. and he didn’t know how to stop them?

  • A. anger / everyday
  • B. frustration / time and again
  • C. disapponitment / understandably
  • D. powerlessness / occasionally
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66

Fill in the gap with the most appropriate option from the list provided?

The visitor was very uncomfortable because of his ….. nose?

  • A. runny
  • B. running
  • C. watery
  • D. flowing
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67

Fill in the gap with the most appropriate option from the list provided?

Ndem was suspended from work because he showed no …… in dealing with the customers?

  • A. love
  • B. iterest
  • C. character
  • D. finesse
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68

Fill in the gap with the most appropriate option from the list provided?

Mrs Ojo was one of …… in my village?

  • A. the first two enlightened young ladies
  • B. the two first enlightened young ladies
  • C. the two first young enlightened ladies
  • D. the first two young enlightened ladies
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69

Fill in the gap with the most appropriate option from the list provided?

They were all behaving like a bunch of ….. children?

  • A. querulous
  • B. querrulous
  • C. querrullous
  • D. quarrelous
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70

Fill in the gap with the most appropriate option from the list provided.

By twelve midnight, we will be….. en route for Britain?

  • A. airbourned
  • B. airborne
  • C. airborned
  • D. airbourne
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71

Fill in the gap with the most appropriate option from the list provided?

The freed robber expressed his gratitude in a ….. prayer of thanksgiving?

  • A. spruious
  • B. spasmodic
  • C. spontaneous
  • D. sparadic
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72

Fill in the gap with the most appropriate option from the list provided?

I am …… admission to the university this year?

  • A. seeking on
  • B. seeking for
  • C. seeking at
  • D. seeking
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73

Fill in the gap with the most appropriate option from the list provided?

I am …… admission to the university this year?

  • A. seeking on
  • B. seeking for
  • C. seeking at
  • D. seeking
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74

Fill in the gap with the most appropriate option from the list provided?

After two years of courtship, Jide is finally ……. Ngozi next Sunday?

  • A. being married to
  • B. marrying
  • C. married to
  • D. being married by
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75

Identify the word that has a different stress pattern from the others?

  • A. interlocutor
  • B. Opportunity
  • C. Ambiguity
  • D. Actualization
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76

Identify the word that has a different stress pattern from the others?

  • A. interrupt
  • B. Contribute
  • C. Harmattan
  • D. Entertain
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77

The word in capital letters has an emphatic stress, Choose the option that best fits the expression in the sentence?

The electricity in OUR premises comes from a generator?

  • A. Is the electricity in your compound supplied by a generator
  • B. Is the electricity in your neighbour's premises supplied by a generator
  • C. Does the electricity in your premises come from NEPA
  • D. Does everybody in your street receive electricity from generator
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78

The word in capital letters has an emphatic stress, Choose the option that best fits the expression in the sentence?

The fire destroyed MANY lives?

  • A. Did the fire destroy the village?
  • B. Did the fire destroy some houses?
  • C. Did the fire destroy any lives?
  • D. Did the fire spare any lives?
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79

The word in capital letters has an emphatic stress, Choose the option that best fits the expression in the sentence?

The accused hasn’t even been TRIED yet?

  • A. Was the accuse sentenced to life imprisonment ?
  • B. Has the suspect been apprehended?
  • C. Why hasn't the accused been tried yet?
  • D. Was the accused handed over to the
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80

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

They have tried circumvent the restriction on the importation of the commodities?

  • A. bypass
  • B. confront
  • C. oppose
  • D. challenge
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81

Choose the option nearest in meaning to the underlined world(S).

When he found himself in a difficult situation, he tried to double-talk his way through?

  • A. talk to two people to help him
  • B. mix up issues to sound nervous
  • C. mix up facts to confuse people
  • D. talk twice to gain sympathy
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82

Choose the option nearest in meaning to the underlined world(S).

Adamu woke up with a start a took to his heels, claiming that something was on his trail?

  • A. in his food
  • B. giving him the chase
  • C. hiding near the bed
  • D. staring at him
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83

Choose the option nearest in meaning to the underlined word (S).

The government is not opening up to the unions in the negotiations; it must have something up its sleeve.

  • A. be nursing a hidden a last agenda
  • B. be hoping to trap them
  • C. be hiding a last minute package
  • D. be intending to dissolve the unions
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84

Choose the option nearest in meaning to the underlined world(S).

Mr. Dzokoto plays the piano with great dexterity?

  • A. wisdom
  • B. power
  • C. force
  • D. skill
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