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

22

Answer the following question below and choose the option that has the same vowel sound as the one represented by the letter (s) underlined.

patch

  • A. starch
  • B. fare
  • C. mad
  • D. came
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23

Answer the following question below and choose the option that has the consonant sound as the one represented by the letter (s) underlined.

village

  • A. page
  • B. pig
  • C. made
  • D. came
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24

Answer the following question below and choose the option that has the same vowel sound as the one represented by the letter (s) underlined.

book

  • A. cool
  • B. cook
  • C. fool
  • D. tool
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25

Answer the following question below and choose the option that best completes the gap(s)

I wanted to know his political beliefs, so l asked him what……..

  • A. this was
  • B. these are
  • C. this is
  • D. they were
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26

Answer the following question below and choose the option that best completes the gap(s)

………..she didn’t trust him, she married him.

  • A. after
  • B. much as
  • C. since
  • D. though
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27

_______your parents frown _______our friendship, we shouldn’t see each other anymore

  • A. because/over
  • B. since/at
  • C. although/at
  • D. as/upon
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28

Answer the following question below and choose the option that best completes the gap(s)

The driver died in the ………. road accident

  • A. fatal
  • B. brutal
  • C. serious
  • D. pathetic
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29

Answer the following question below and choose the option that best completes the gap(s)

Many workers were………… as a result of the textile closure

  • A. laid down
  • B. laid off
  • C. laid out
  • D. laid up
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30

Answer the following question below and choose the option that best completes the gap(s)

Her mother brought her some…….

  • A. clothes
  • B. yards
  • C. cloth
  • D. clothing
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31

Answer the following question below and choose the option that best completes the gap(s)

This professor of………..medicine has……… the mystery of bird flu.

  • A. vetinary/unraveled
  • B. vertrinary/unravelled
  • C. veterinaty/unravelved
  • D. veterinary/unravelled
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32

Answer the following question below and choose the option that best completes the gap(s)

We stood up when the principal came in……….?

  • A. isn't it
  • B. didn't we
  • C. not so
  • D. did us
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33

Answer the following question below and choose the option that best completes the gap(s)

The woman would not part with her……….pot

  • A. dicarded earthen black
  • B. discarded black earthen
  • C. earthen discarded black
  • D. black earthen discarded
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34

Answer the following question below and choose the option that best completes the gap(s)

Everyone makes mistakes occasionally, nobody is………

  • A. incorrigible
  • B. imperfect
  • C. infallible
  • D. indestructible
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35

Answer the following question below and choose the option that best completes the gap(s)

She was…………the verge of tears

  • A. at
  • B. on
  • C. by
  • D. with
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36

Answer the following question below and choose the option that best completes the gap(s)

We visited his house………..three times

  • A. about
  • B. for about
  • C. like
  • D. for like
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37

Answer the following question below and choose the option that best completes the gap(s)

………..a good leader must have two characteristics

  • A. first and formost
  • B. first and formust
  • C. first and farmost
  • D. first and foremost
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38

Answer the following question below and choose the option that best completes the gap(s)

One should be careful how……behaves in public, shouldn’t…….

  • A. one/one
  • B. he/lie
  • C. she/one
  • D. one/he
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39

Answer the following question below and choose the option that best completes the gap(s)\

The driver was short of petrol, so he……….down the hills with the engine switched off

  • A. glided
  • B. coasted
  • C. wheeled
  • D. taxied
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40

Answer the following question below and choose the option that best completes the gap(s)

He started his career as an……….teacher

  • A. auxilliary
  • B. auxiluryy
  • C. auxillary
  • D. auxiliary
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41

Answer the following question below and choose the option that best completes the gap(s)

Vacancies in the company will be notified by………..

  • A. bulletin
  • B. publication
  • C. publicity
  • D. advertisement
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42

Answer the following question below and choose the option that best completes the gap(s)

He was both a writer and a politician, but he was better…… a singer

  • A. as if
  • B. like
  • C. as
  • D. to be
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