English Past Questions And Answers

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Choose from the options opposite in meaning to the word underlined.

The teacher announced that the class would be making afleeting visit to the zoo?

  • A. routine
  • B. brief
  • C. long
  • D. guided
View Discussion (0)JAMB 2000
232

From the word lettered A to D, choose the word that best completes each of the following sentences

As a millionaire he lives in ...

  • A. prudence
  • B. affluence
  • C. frugality
  • D. abundance
View Discussion (0)WAEC 2015 OBJ
233

Choose the option that best conveys the meaning of the underlined portion in the following sentence; In the match against the uplanders team, the sub mariners turned out to be thedark horse

  • A. played most brilliantly
  • B. played below their usual form
  • C. won unexpectedly
  • D. lost as expected
View Discussion (0)JAMB 2020
234

Choose the option nearest in meaning to the underlined word(s). Hisamnesia has affected his career?

  • A. loss of focus
  • B. loss of sight
  • C. loss of memory
  • D. loss of direction
View Discussion (0)JAMB 2009
235

In each of the following sentences, there is one word underlined and one gap. From the list of words lettered A - E, 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.

Emeka is quiterefined in his manners but his colleague is rather..........

  • A. arrogant
  • B. crude
  • C. courtly
  • D. cultured
View Discussion (0)WAEC 1996 OBJ
236

In the question below choose the optionnearest in meaning to the word(s) or phrase Underlined: Bola has asonorous voice.

  • A. high-pitched
  • B. beautiful
  • C. strong
  • D. throaty
View Discussion (0)JAMB 1987
237

In the 1950s, a man named Joseph McVicker was struggling to keep his business afloat when his sisterin-law Kay Zufall advised him to repurpose the company’s product, a nontoxic, clay-like substance for removing soot from wallpaper, as a modeling putty for kids. In addition, Zufall ______ selling the product under a child-friendly name: Play-Doh. Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?

  • A) suggested
  • B) suggests
  • C) had suggested
  • D) was suggesting
View Discussion (0)SAT 2021
238

Fill each of the gap with the appropriate option from the list following the the gap. That centre-forward was....... consequently the goal was not disallowed?

  • A. in an off-side position
  • B. very well positioned
  • C. a brilliant player
  • D. the captain of the team
View Discussion (0)JAMB 1998
239

His English was so good that he .............. for an Englishman.

  • A. took
  • B. is taken
  • C. was taken
  • D. has taken
View Discussion (0)JAMB 1982
240

.............. it might not look such rosy proposition.

  • A. From his viewing proposal
  • B. When he views the proposal
  • C. Having viewed the proposal
  • D. From his point of view
View Discussion (0)JAMB 1980