English Past Questions And Answers
In the question below choose the word(s) or phrase(s) whichbest fill(s)the gap: Now, i am used .... bread without butter.
- A. to eat
- B. in eating
- C. of eating
- D. to eating
In the question below choose the optionnearest in meaning to the word(s) or phrase(s) underlined: Statesmen arerevered for their objectivity
- A. referred
- B. respected
- C. remembered
- D. rejected
From the words or group of words labelled A to D, choose the one that best completes each of the following sentences. Nigeria's economy was buoyant.....the 1970s
- A. through
- B. on
- C. in
- D. with
Select the option that best explain the information conveyed in the sentence?
If he were here, it could be more fun.
- A. He did not show up and so the occasion lacked much fun
- B. He was being expected to supply more fun
- C. There was not fun because he was not present
- D. He was expected but did not show up to liven up the occasion
From the words lettered A to D, choose the word that has the same vowel sound as the one represented by the underlined letters or letters underlined. Shoe
- A. full
- B. food
- C. put
- D. blood
Fill in the gap(s) with the most appropriate option from the list following the gap(s).
........ woman was attacked by a group of bandits
- A. a 90- years old
- B. a 90-year old
- C. a 90 years-old
- D. a 90 year-old
I told him .................. he had no chance
- A. quite by frankness
- B. quite frankly
- C. quite being frank
- D. quite to be frank
He told me to go on ........................... till seven
- A. to work
- B. worked
- C. works
- D. working
Choose the most appropriate optionnearest in meaning to the underlined word.
The delegates to the Constitutional Conference havemootedthat funding of universities be transferred to states where they are located?
- A. said
- B. agreed
- C. proposed
- D. legislated
While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes: • The Philadelphia and Lancaster Turnpike was a road built between 1792 and 1794. • It was the first private turnpike in the United States. • It connected the cities of Philadelphia and Lancaster in the state of Pennsylvania. • It was sixty-two miles long. The student wants to emphasize the distance covered by the Philadelphia and Lancaster Turnpike. Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal?
- A) The sixty-two-mile-long Philadelphia and Lancaster Turnpike connected the Pennsylvania cities of Philadelphia and Lancaster.
- B) The Philadelphia and Lancaster Turnpike was the first private turnpike in the United States.
- C) The Philadelphia and Lancaster Turnpike, which connected two Pennsylvania cities, was built between 1792 and 1794.
- D) A historic Pennsylvania road, the Philadelphia and Lancaster Turnpike was completed in 1794.

