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

43

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

Western education is one of the …… colonial rule.

  • A. legacies
  • B. evidence
  • C. remnants
  • D. inheritance
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44

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

Vital …… is still spread ….. word of mouth in most villages in Africa?

  • A. information / from
  • B. information / with
  • C. information / by
  • D. information / through
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45

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

They are the …… dresses?

  • A. baby's
  • B. baby
  • C. babies
  • D. babies'
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46

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

When we looked up, we …… the plane some miles away?

  • A. site
  • B. cited
  • C. sited
  • D. sighted
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47

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

Long after everyone ……. the hall, Obi still sat inside?

  • A. left
  • B. is leaving
  • C. has left
  • D. had left
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48

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

The panacea for a country’s economic mess lies in systematic planning and hardwork?

  • A. cure
  • B. hope
  • C. foresight
  • D. trouble
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49

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

The principal said that he was pleased …… my effort?

  • A. on
  • B. of
  • C. with
  • D. about
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50

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

The new trade agreement should facilitate ……. ?

  • A. more economic rapid growth
  • B. economic more rapid growth
  • C. rapid economic more growth
  • D. more rapid economic growth
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51

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

One of the women who …… in the premises …… been ordered to quit?

  • A. sells / have
  • B. sell / has
  • C. sell / have
  • D. sells / has
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52

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

A wide range of options ……. made available to students in their final year last year?

  • A. is
  • B. were
  • C. are
  • D. was
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53

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

His wife was badly injured in the fracas, but I think she will pull ……. ?

  • A. up
  • B. over
  • C. through
  • D. back
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54

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

The boy told his mother…… ?

  • A. that was the girl he told her about
  • B. that was the girl I told you about her
  • C. that was the girl I told her about
  • D. that is the girl he told her about
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55

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

Last Monday his father asked me, ……. ?

  • A. if i had come some days before
  • B. if I had come the day before
  • C. did you come yesterday
  • D. had I come yesterday
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56

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

He can recall the important dates in the nation’s history, it is interesting to listen as he rattles……..?

  • A. off
  • B. over
  • C. up
  • D. out
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57

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

Lemoti ……. as a painter, but also as a sculptor?

  • A. is gifted only not
  • B. is only not gifted
  • C. is gifted not only
  • D. is only gifted
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58

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

This is an abridge version of No longer at Ease?

  • A. an outdated
  • B. an enlarged
  • C. an illiustrated
  • D. a shortened
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59

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

Ugo is eligible for the post of secretary?

  • A. nominated
  • B. invited
  • C. qualified
  • D. intelligent
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60

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

Her reputation is without a blemish?

  • A. struggle
  • B. problem
  • C. fault
  • D. blessing
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61

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

The girl’s father was astounded to see her appear from the shrine?

  • A. collected
  • B. overwhelmed
  • C. embarrassed
  • D. astonished
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62

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

The director’s remark was extremely opposite to the issue being discussed?

  • A. appropriate
  • B. inconsequential
  • C. emphatic
  • D. adequate
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63

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

Jankoli was dressed in an old assortment of clothes?

  • A. avalanche
  • B. homogeneity
  • C. sameness
  • D. melange
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