English Past Questions And Answers
From the word lettered A to D, choose the word that best completes each of the following sentences.
What i gave you was supposed to.....your monthly earnings
- A. expand
- B. enlarge
- C. complete
- D. augment
From the words lettered A. to D below each of the following sentences, choose the word or group of words that is nearest in meaning to the underlined word as it is used in the sentences.
The acrobatic displays left the spectatorsstunned.
- A. amused
- B. anticed
- C. astonished
- D. elated
Fill the gap with the most appropriate option from the list following the gap. Tokyo is one of the most developed ...... of the world?
- A. electronics centre
- B. electronic centre
- C. electronics centres
- D. electronic centres
Choose the interpretation that is most appropriate for each sentence.
Looking after young children can tax ones patience. This means that looking after children
- A. is pleasant
- B. requires endurance
- C. is a lot of fun
- D. takes time
It was ___ who fought the war
- (A)they
- (B) them
- (C) their
- (D) themselves
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.
- A. barbaric
- B. ignorant
- C. clean
- D. lazzy
Choose the optionnearest in meaning to the underlined word(s).
The Federal Government approved a new salary structure as anincentive for the Nigerian workers?
- A. a reward
- B. an encouragement
- C. a package
- D. an advance
ADJECTIVE . unfeeling; insensitive; hard
- (a) callous
- (b) labyrinthine
- (c) effete
- (d) radical
We are all hungry; we ______ anything to eat since morning.
- A. hadn't had
- B. never had
- C. haven't had
- D. didn't have
You have changed school and after a few months, you discover that your present school is not as good as the former. Write a letter to a friend of yours in your former school giving at least three areas in which the new school does not measure up to the old one.
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