Waec English language 1991 Past Questions and Answers

Question 61:

• WAEC 1991

From the words or groups of words lettered A to D, choose the word or group of words that best completes the sentence.
For our Sunday lunch. Mother always cooked a .......

A. Large pot of thick,spicy groundnut soup
B. Large, thick,spicy pot of groundnut soup
C. Large, spicy, thick groundnut pot of soup
D. Large,spicy groundnut soup

Question 62:

• WAEC 1991

From the words or groups of words lettered A to D, choose the word or group of words that best completes the sentence.
Don't believe all.............he had told you.

A. What
B. Which
C. That
D. There

Question 63:

• WAEC 1991

From the words or groups of words lettered A to D, choose the word or group of words that best completes the sentence.
He succeeded ....the odds he faced.

A. After
B. Despite
C. Even
D. In addition to

Question 64:

• WAEC 1991

From the words or groups of words lettered A to D, choose the word or group of words that best completes the sentence.
Please let me have.........salt in my soup.

A. A little
B. Few
C. Small
D. A few

Question 65:

• WAEC 1991

In the following passage the numbered gaps indicate missing words:Against each number in the list below each passage five choices are offered in the columns lettered A to E. For each question, choose the most suitable word to fill the numbered gap in the passage.
Not all insects are -66- and amongst those which are, the honey bees. Besides the honey they -67- they perform an even move important service by -68- flowers. The -69- method of obtaining honey in African countries is to allow wild bees to enter a -70- and then later to smoke out the bees with -71-. The food value of honey is -72- high; it is derived from -73-, which is merely a sugary solution in water. In honey most of this sugar has been changed into another -74- which, when eaten, is very easily -75- into the blood -76-. An -77- is the name of the place where the beehieves are kept. Bees require water, and this should be provided if not -78- available. A honey -79- is the place where the honey is stored and it is very important that the bees are not destroyed when the honey is -80-.


In question numbered 66 above, choose the best option from letters A - E that best completes the gap.

A. Necessary
B. Useful
C. Important
D. Harmless
E. Harmful