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

43

Fill each gap with the most appropriate option from the lists provided.

The match gave the team a chance to show their ……..?

  • A. worth
  • B. position
  • C. prowess
  • D. mettle
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44

Fill each gap with the most appropriate option from the lists provided.

Whenever we have ……. we feel better?

  • A. a long good talk together
  • B. a good long talk together
  • C. together a long good talk
  • D. together a good long talk
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45

Fill each gap with the most appropriate option from the lists provided.

The members of the team agree …….. all the members of the contract?

  • A. by
  • B. to
  • C. on
  • D. with
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46

Fill each gap with the most appropriate option from the lists provided.

The operations of the bank …….. not …… cottage and small-scale industries?

  • A. does /covered
  • B. does / cover
  • C. did / covered
  • D. do /cover
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47

Fill each gap with the most appropriate option from the lists provided.

Ali has been cured of his amnesia, he no longer suffers from …… ?

  • A. rounds of anxeity
  • B. loss of memory
  • C. pains in his arms
  • D. bouts of malaria
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48

Fill each gap with the most appropriate option from the lists provided.

By this time next year, I …… twenty years old?

  • A. would have been
  • B. will be
  • C. could have been
  • D. will have been
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49

Fill each gap with the most appropriate option from the lists provided.

The future of the company is …… though many seem …..about it?

  • A. okay / optimistic
  • B. promising / nostalgic
  • C. rosy / pessimistic
  • D. dicy / unsatisfied
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50

Fill each gap with the most appropriate option from the lists provided.

……. a motor cycle can be harmful ….. your health.

  • A. riding / for
  • B. riding / to
  • C. to ride / for
  • D. to ride / with
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51

Fill each gap with the most appropriate option from the lists provided.

As election day draws near, the party looks …… because many of its members have……. other parties?

  • A. successful / decleared for
  • B. vulnerable / defected to
  • C. cheerful / moved to
  • D. cheerless / cross-carpeted from
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52

Fill each gap with the most appropriate option from the lists provided.

Musa has lived here for five years but he does not seem able to get over the enormously…….. and elaborate rules that govern the society?

  • A. adsurd
  • B. bizarre
  • C. fantastic
  • D. intricate
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53

Fill each gap with the most appropriate option from the lists provided.

If one perseveres ……. will surely succeed?

  • A. she
  • B. one
  • C. he
  • D. they
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54

Fill each gap with the most appropriate option from the lists provided.

The army officer said that more …… would be needed to prosecute the war?

  • A. guerrilas
  • B. guerrillas
  • C. geurrilas
  • D. geurrillas
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55

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

My uncle retired from the POLICE?

  • A. Did your brother resign from the police?
  • B. Did your sister resign from the police?
  • C. Did your uncle retire from the army?
  • D. Did your brother retire from the police?
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56

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

The university has been TEMPORARILY closed.

  • A. Has the campus been permanantly closed?
  • B. Has the university been permanantly open?
  • C. Has the university been permanantly closed?
  • D. Has the college been temporarily closed?
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57

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

The man BOUGHT the newspaper.

  • A. Is this the newspaper which the man bought?
  • B. Did the man read the newspaper?
  • C. Who bought the newspaper?
  • D. What did the man buy?
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58

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

The king RAN to the palace?

  • A. Where did the king run to?
  • B. Did the king walk to the palace?
  • C. Did the queen run to the palace?
  • D. Who ran to the palace?
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59

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

He travelled ONLY 20 kilometres before his car stopped?

  • A. Did he travel only 20 kilometres after his car stopped?
  • B. Did he travel exactly 20 kilometres before his car stopped?
  • C. Did you walk only 20 kilometres before the vehicle stopped?
  • D. Did he travel more than 20 kilometres before his car stopped?
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60

Choose the option that has a different vowel sound from the others?

  • A. does
  • B. flood
  • C. world
  • D. son
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61

Choose the option that has a different vowel sound from the others?

  • A. tear (verb)
  • B. hear
  • C. weird
  • D. mere
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62

Choose the option that has a different vowel sound from the others?

  • A. rough
  • B. dog
  • C. cough
  • D. rot
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63

Choose the option that has the same consonant sound as the one represented by the underlined letter(s).

Preached?

  • A. question
  • B. castle
  • C. past
  • D. lotion
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