English Past Questions And Answers
Choose the most appropriate optionnearest in meaning to the underlined word.
Ishuddered in revulsion as i watched the snake slowly swallow the struggling rat?
- A. was fascinated
- B. was repelled
- C. was interested
- D. was distressed
You are about to leave school after spending six years as a student. Write a letter to the principal, expressing your candid views on the strengths and weaknesses of the school and giving suggestions for improvement.
View Discussion (0)WAEC 1994 THEORYFrom the words lettered A to D, choose the word that best completes each of the following sentences.
Many African leaders try to cling.........to power
- A. tenaciously
- B. judiciously
- C. economically
- D. socially
Before you go, see my wife
- (A)falling tune
- (B)rising tune
- (C)falling rising tune
- (D)rising falling tune
The principal and the chairman of the occasion ___ arrived
- (A) are
- (B) is
- (C) have
- (D) has
Fill in the gap with the option that best completes the sentence.
We ought to stay away ______ the robbers come back
- A. provided
- B. should in case
- C. although
- D. in case
Complete the following simile: Olu is as hungry as a:
- A. orphan
- B. wolf
- C. termites
- D. Thug
From the words or groups of words lettered A to E below the sentence, choose the word or group of words that is nearest in meaning to the underlined word or phrase as it is used in the sentence.
The supreme courtset aside the ruling of the High Court
- A. upheld
- B. nullified
- C. agreed with
- D. justified
Choose the option opposite in meaning to the underlined word(s). The views of the plateau are in a shark contrast to the workaday cottages below?
- A. ordinary and uninteresting
- B. beautiful and interesting
- C. comfortable and facsinating
- D. ugly and unfascinating
Within the last quarter of the twentieth century, medical experts have been laying emphasis on ___71___ rather than ___72___ measures. Through primary health care programmes, people have been taught about these. When an individual ___73___ a disease, he has to see a doctor for ___74___. At times, the doctor finds it difficult to ___75___ the disease during the initial examination of the patient because many diseases have similar ___76___. When this happens, the patient is either asked to go to the ___77___ for one test or the other or he would have ___78___ taken to help the doctor find out what is happening internally. it is after all these, and sometimes more, that the doctor can ___79___ some drugs for the individual and perhaps give him some ___80___. To save yourself and everyone else from this headache, it is advisable to pay heed to public health programmes.
In the following passage, the numbered gap 77 indicates a missing word.Four options are given in columns lettered A, to D. Choose the word that is themost suitableto fill the gap in the passage.
- A. pharmacy
- B. infirmary
- C. ward
- D. laboratory