English Past Questions And Answers

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3081

Choose the most appropriate optionnearest in meaning to the underlined word(s).

Her was achequered career?

  • A. an interesting and successful career
  • B. a career full of sorrow and tears
  • C. a bright and memorable career
  • D. a career full of ups and down
View Discussion (0)JAMB 1998
3082

Select the option that best explains the information conveyed in the sentence. The perfect reeled off the names of all the students who broke the library?

  • A. The perfect gave a disjointed list of the students in the law library
  • B. The perfect omitted the names of the students who broke into the law library
  • C. The perfect submitted a complete list of the students who stole library books
  • D. The perfect gave an accurate list of the students who disobeyed library regulations
View Discussion (0)JAMB 2006
3083

You were an eye-witness to a fight in your dormitory in which a junior student was given a black eye and the principal had threatened to expel all the boarders unless the facts of the matter were made known to him. Write a letter to the principal stating what actually happened.

View Discussion (0)WAEC 1995 THEORY
3084

From the words lettered A to D, choose the word that best completes each of the following sentences: The man was told in his own interest to.................the statement he had made.

  • A. cancel
  • B. recast
  • C. erase
  • D. retract
View Discussion (0)WAEC 2008 OBJ
3085

Answer the following question below and select the option that best explains the information conveyed in the sentence. He needed not to have played in the position of quarterback in volley ball.

  • A. He participated in the game in his unusual position
  • B. Nobody expected him to have participated in the game
  • C. He wanted to play in a position other than the one he was offered
  • D. Someone did not want him to play in the position that he played
View Discussion (0)JAMB 2012
3086

The words in capital letters have the emphatic stress. Choose the option to which the given sentence relates. The car CRUSHED him.

  • A. Who did the car crush?
  • B. Did a car crush him?
  • C. What crushed him?
  • D. Did the car injure him?
View Discussion (0)JAMB 2016
3087

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

The librarian has not entered the new books in the__________

  • A. catalogue
  • B. roster
  • C. list
  • D. directory
View Discussion (0)WAEC 2020 OBJ
3088

Choose the option that best conveys the meaning of the underlined portion in the following sentence; The balance sheet at the end of the business year shows that webroke even

  • A. lost heavily
  • B. made profit
  • C. neither lost nor gained
  • D. had no money to continue business
View Discussion (0)JAMB 2020
3089

A friend of yours wants to study in your school and has written to you for information and advice: Write a reply to him, telling him all that he needs to know about the school.

View Discussion (0)WAEC 2016 THEORY
3090

Choose the option nearest in meaning to the word underlined? The tax rebate was a concession given to the civil servants?

  • A. a donation
  • B. an allowance
  • C. an incentive
  • D. an emolument
View Discussion (0)JAMB 2007