Waec English language 1996 Past Questions and Answers

Question 71:

• WAEC 1996

From the words lettered A to D, choose the word that best completes each of the following sentences.
You didn't knock before you entered

A. Did you?
B. Isn't it?
C. Is it?
D. Were you?

Question 72:

• WAEC 1996

From the words lettered A to D, choose the word that best completes each of the following sentences.
Our tour of London came to an end all..........soon.

A. Very
B. Much
C. Rather
D. Too

Question 73:

• WAEC 1996

From the words lettered A to D, choose the word that best completes each of the following sentences.
Ranti: Must we finish cracking all the nuts before noon? Ike: No, we

A. Mustn't
B. Needn't
C. Shouldn't
D. Couldn't

Question 74:

• WAEC 1996

From the words lettered A to D, choose the word that best completes each of the following sentences.
Each of the players........to receive a gift of N10,000.00

A. Are
B. Were
C. Is
D. Have

Question 75:

• WAEC 1996

In the following passages the numbered gaps indicate missing words. Against each number in the below each passage, five choices are offered in columns lettered A to E. For each question choose the word that is the most suitable to fill the numbered gap in the passage.
If the advantages of international trade and division of labour are as strong and -76- as economists assert, the student of international trade may well be puzzled by the -77- to which governments impose -78- on their -79- trade. The actions of governments, however, are not swayed entirely by economic -80- When a country aims at economic self-sufficiency; the reasons are generally -81-. For example, a country may wish to -82- its farming industry in order to be able to feed itself in time of war, or it may try to build an iron and -83- industry as part of an -84- programme.
If a conference is called to consider a reduction of -85-, a country that had imposed no restrictions on imports would find itself at a -86-, since it would have no -87- to offer.
I made a visit to the University Teaching Hospital the other day. At the -88- Department where accidents -89- are treated, the doctors were battling to save the life of a man who had just been knocked down in a road accident. They -90- the injured man thoroughly with the aid of several -91- instruments such as the -92- used in measuring body temperature and the -93- used in listening to the sound of the heart and the lungs. By using -94-, several internal parts of the patient's body were photographed -95- and pain-killing injections were given. His bleeding was stopped. The nurses. -96- his wounds and he was carried on a -97- to the special care -98- where those under -99- care are kept. The doctor asked the nurses to keep the patient under close -100-


In question numbered 76 above, choose the best option from letters A - E that best completes the gap.

A. Irrefutable
B. Detestable
C. Invincible
D. Plausible
E. Honourable