English Past Questions And Answers
From the words or group of words lettered A to D, choose the word or group of words that best completes each of the following sentences:
The driver...........nearly caused an accident
- A. rather
- B. almost
- C. very
- D. quite
From the word lettered A to D, choose the word that best completes each of the following sentences.
His.....to violent video games is something to worry about.
- A. devotion
- B. attachment
- C. commitment
- D. addiction
From the words or group of words lettered A to D, choose the word or group of words that best completes each of the following sentences:
The secretary needs to run........two hundred copies of the previous minutes for the next meeting
- A. off
- B. on
- C. out
- D. over
In each of the following sentences, there is one word underlined and one gap. From the list of words lettered A - D, choose the word that is most nearly opposite in meaning to the underlined word and that will, at the same time, correctly fill the gap in the sentences.
We should regard donations as....and not compulsory
- A. mandatory
- B. necessary
- C. voluntary
- D. gratuitious
Instruction: Choose the word opposite in meaning to the underlined words.
I felt as if I was in an oven throughout my stay in the sahara, while our room here in Jos is like a .....
- A. freezer
- B. chimney
- C. ventilator
- D. furnance
Choose the option that best best completes the gap(s). Did you have ....... when you went to visit the medical doctor?
- A. diarrhoea
- B. diarrehea
- C. diarhoea
- D. diarhea
Student
- A. Propose
- B. Superb
- C. Refuse(N)
- D. Rebel(V)
An indication that there is inflation in a country is that
- A. there is a decrease in the demand for goods and services
- B. there are too many goods in circulation
- C. the same amount of money buys lower quantity of goods
- D. people prefer to lend than to borrow
The house will look all the better............. this new coat of paint
- A. for
- B. under
- C. against
- D. upon
In her poetry collection Thomas and Beulah, Rita Dove interweaves the titular characters’ personal stories with broader historical narratives. She places Thomas’s journey from the American South to the Midwest in the early 1900s within the larger context of the Great Migration. ______ Dove sets events from Beulah’s personal life against the backdrop of the US Civil Rights Movement. Which choice completes the text with the most logical transition?
- A) Specifically,
- B) Thus,
- C) Regardless,
- D) Similarly,

