2001 WAEC SSCE English Language Past Questions

2001

Read the following passage carefully and answer, in your own words as far as possible, the question that follows. Poverty! Can anyone who has not really been poor know what poverty is? I really doubt it. How can anyone w…

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Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions on it. In the 1960s and 1970s undergraduates did not need to apply for employment. Employees usually wooed them by depositing offers of jobs in their halls of…

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Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions on it. Bitrus, a middle-aged man, was speeding along the hot tarmac one afternoon, oblivious of the countryside. By his side, reading a magazine was his fir…

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Write a story, real or imagined, which illustrates the saying "Make hay while the sun shines."

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You are a speaker in a debate on the topic Civilian rule is better than military." Write your contribution for or against the motion.

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The last nation-wide strike by secondary school teachers affected your school adversely. Write a letter to the Minister of Education suggesting at least three ways of preventing future strike actions.

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Write an article for publication in a cultural magazine on the advantages and disadvantages of the extended family system.

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Write a letter to your father who has been on a long course abroad, telling him how the family has been faring in his absence.

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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 sa…

2001

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 sa…

2001

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 sa…

2001

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 sa…

2001

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 sa…

2001

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 sa…

2001

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 sa…

2001

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 sa…

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From the words lettered A to D, choose the word that best completes each of the following sentences.The doctor's _____was that the patient was suffering from cancer.

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From the words lettered A to D, choose the word that best completes each of the following sentences.The accused stated _____ that he was innocent of the crime

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From the words lettered A to D, choose the word that best completes each of the following sentences.The _____programme against childhood diseases has ended.

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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 sa…

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