English Past Questions And Answers
After each of the following sentences, a list of possible interpretations of the sentence is given. Choose the interpretation that you consider most appropriate for each sentence. All our plans fell through at the last moment. This means that we
- A. were exposed
- B. delayed
- C. were abandoned
- D. failed
You are in the final year in secondary school. Write a letter to your uncle, who is an influential person in the society, telling him what you intend to do next and asking for his assistance.
View Discussion (0)WAEC 1999 THEORYChoose the optionnearest in meaning to the underlined world(s).
When he found himself in a difficult situation, he tried todouble-talk his way through?
- A. talk to two people to help him
- B. mix up issues to sound nervous
- C. mix up facts to confuse people
- D. talk twice to gain sympathy
The first stage of writing is ______
- A. Pre-writing
- B. writing
- C. post writing
- D. rewriting
You have received information that your brother, who is schooling in another part of the country, is playing truant and keeping bad company. Write a letter warning him of the consequences of such behaviour and urging him to turn over a new leaf.
View Discussion (0)WAEC 1997 THEORYChoose the most appropriate optionopposite in meaning to the word underlined word(s).
It was aninopportune moment for you to make that suggestion?
- A. an ideal
- B. a wrong
- C. an exact
- D. a sad
Choose the option that best complete the gap. At the _________ of the century, many ways of doing things were introduced.
- A. Sight.
- B. Turn.
- C. Event.
- D. Birth.
Samson is ____ the jollof rice you prepared
- (a)feeling the taste
- (b)tasting the taste
- (c)testing the taste
- (d)tasting
Select the option that best explains the information conveyed in the sentence. Jummai's father remarked that pigs would fly before she passed.
- A. She would have to cheat in order to pass.
- B. It would be possible to pass only if she worked harder.
- C. It would never be possible for her to pass.
- D. He would have to bribe her teachers to enable her to pass.
Select the option that best explains the information conveyed in the sentence. My father is one of the vociferous few challenging the company's appointment of the manager?
- A. my father is the one who shouts with a loud voice against the appointment of the manager
- B. My father and others speak on behalf of the company against the appointment of the manager
- C. My father is one of those objecting to the appointment of the manager
- D. My father is agitated by the appointment of the manager