JAMB - English Language (1998)

  • 1
    Select the option that best explains the information conveyed in the sentence.

    If I left the country, I would arrange for my family to join me?
    Respondre
    (B)
    In the event of his leaving the country, his family would join him
  • 2
    Select the option that best explains the information conveyed in the sentence.

    A state of mutual hatred existed for years between the two villages of Umunna and Ogboma?
    Respondre
    (D)
    Umunna and Ogboma hated each other
  • 3
    Select the option that best explains the information conveyed in the sentence.

    The painting in the museum was beautifully faked?
    Respondre
    (A)
    The painting was a good deceptive replica
  • 4
    Select the option that best explains the information conveyed in the sentence.

    Ade: Do you mind if i sit down here?
    Bola: Well, yes I do actually.
    Respondre
    (C)
    Bola is certainly rejecting the request
  • 5
    Select the option that best explains the information conveyed in the sentence.

    The president held forth for several minutes on the need for patriotism?
    Respondre
    (D)
    The president gave a rather long speech on the importance of patriotism
  • 6
    Select the option that best explains the information conveyed in the sentence.

    The slide in the price of gold in the world market has left the industry reeling?
    Respondre
    (A)
    The gradual fall in gold price is making the industry unstable
  • 7
    Select the option that best explains the information conveyed in the sentence.

    Fabricated statements published as truths amount to an abuse of press freedom?
    Respondre
    (B)
    Publishing formulated untruths is misused press freedom
  • 8
    Select the option that best explains the information conveyed in the sentence.

    The expected guests arrived at the eleventh hour?
    Respondre
    (A)
    The guest arrived at the last minute
  • 9
    Select the option that best explains the information conveyed in the sentence.

    After addressing the court for two hours, the defence counsel rested her case?
    Respondre
    (C)
    The defence counsel concluded her defence after speaking for two hours
  • 10
    Select the option that best explains the information conveyed in the sentence.

    Benjamin exclaimed, 'If it is Napoleon who said it, it must be right'?
    Respondre
    (D)
    Benjamin thinks that Napoleon always says the right thing
  • 11
    Choose the most appropriate option opposite in meaning to the underlined word(s).

    The chairman's verdict redressed the injustice mete out by the secretary?
    Respondre
    (C)
    aggravated
  • 12
    Choose the most appropriate option opposite in meaning to the underlined word.

    Uche could not travel last December because of the severity of the harmattan?
    Respondre
    (B)
    mildness
  • 13
    Choose the most appropriate option opposite in meaning to the word underlined word(s).



    Mrs. Kofi is very provocative in her style of dressing?
    Respondre
    (A)
    modest
  • 14
    Choose the most appropriate option opposite in meaning to the word underlined word(s

    Travelling in the night can be an ordeal?
    Respondre
    (D)
    a great pleasure
  • 15
    Choose the most appropriate option opposite in meaning to the word underlined word(s).

    Akoso thought that her father was very callous?
    Respondre
    (B)
    compassionate
  • 16
    Choose the most appropriate option opposite in meaning to the word underlined word(s).

    The Lion's of Cameroun is really an indomitable team?
    Respondre
    (C)
    a weak
  • 17
    Choose the most appropriate option opposite in meaning to the underlined word(s).

    To almost everyone in the little village, Ada's behaviour was almost odious.
    Respondre
    (C)
    attractive
  • 18
    Choose the most appropriate option opposite in meaning to the word underlined word(s).

    Adamu was so vociferous during the meeting of the congregation that he succeeded in incurring the wrath of the charming?
    Respondre
    (B)
    admiration
  • 19
    Choose the most appropriate option opposite in meaning to the word underlined word(s).

    It was an inopportune moment for you to make that suggestion?
    Respondre
    (A)
    an ideal
  • 20
    Choose the most appropriate option opposite in meaning to the word underlined word(s).

    He devoted too much time to the peripheral aspects?
    Respondre
    (D)
    main
  • 21
    Choose the most appropriate option opposite in meaning to the word underlined word(s).

    The girl's idiosyncrasy was a passion for bread and butter?
    Respondre
    (B)
    general tendency
  • 22
    Choose the most appropriate option opposite in meaning to the word underlined word(s).

    Once he has decided that something needs doing, my brother is very unswerving of purpose?
    Respondre
    (A)
    erratic
  • 23
    Choose the most appropriate option opposite in meaning to the word underlined word(s).

    Those were the days of the fallacy that some languages are primitive while others are not?
    Respondre
    (D)
    truth
  • 24
    Choose the most appropriate option opposite in meaning to the word underlined word(s).

    Events in South Africa indicate a kind of political renascence?
    Respondre
    (B)
    decline
  • 25
    Choose the most appropriate option opposite in meaning to the word underlined word(s).



    She is immune to the flattery of young men?
    Respondre
    (B)
    susceptible
  • 26
    Choose the most appropriate option opposite in meaning to the word underlined word(s)

    If we must live together as one people, we must learn to tolerate disparate dispositions?
    Respondre
    (A)
    converging
  • 27
    Choose the most appropriate option opposite in meaning to the underlined word(s)

    The presidential aspirant warned of the political catastrophe that would follow if the elections were rigged.
    Respondre
    (C)
    success
  • 28
    Choose the most appropriate option nearest in meaning to the underlined word(s).

    The material in the book is presented within an eclectic framework?
    Respondre
    (B)
    a broad
  • 29
    Choose the most appropriate option nearest in meaning to the underlined word(s).

    Ohiokhen had a brainwave as to how she could deal with the problem?
    Respondre
    (D)
    an idea
  • 30
    Choose the most appropriate option nearest in meaning to the underlined word(s).

    Surely, Ahmed is a ball of fire?
    Respondre
    (D)
    a very energetic person
  • 31
    Choose the most appropriate option nearest in meaning to the underlined word(s).

    This time, she will be competing with a dark horse?
    Respondre
    (B)
    a person about whom little is known
  • 32
    Choose the most appropriate option nearest in meaning to the underlined word(s).

    In answer to the question as to how life is treating him, the stranger said 'it never rains but it pours?
    Respondre
    (C)
    things are getting decidedly worse
  • 33
    Choose the most appropriate option nearest in meaning to the underlined word(s).

    One significant characteristic of the jet is that it encourages people to cut corners?
    Respondre
    (C)
    to want to avoid necessary hardships
  • 34
    Choose the most appropriate option nearest in meaning to the underlined word(s).

    The lady who won the beauty contest had a good gait?
    Respondre
    (D)
    carriage
  • 35
    Choose the most appropriate option nearest in meaning to the underlined word(s).

    It would need a high flyer to make a first class degree in the university?
    Respondre
    (C)
    an outstanding scholar
  • 36
    Choose the most appropriate option nearest in meaning to the underlined word(s).
    Any student found guilty of examination malpractice should be allowed to stew in his juice.
    Respondre
    (B)
    suffer the consequences of his action
  • 37
    Choose the most appropriate option nearest in meaning to the underlined word(s).

    What you find in the book is a bird's eye view of the subject?
    Respondre
    (D)
    a general survey
  • 38
    Choose the most appropriate option nearest in meaning to the underlined word(s).

    If experience is anything to go by, this action will prove a political minefield?
    Respondre
    (D)
    an invitiation to political problems
  • 39
    Choose the most appropriate option nearest in meaning to the underlined word(s).

    Hers was a chequered career​​​​​.
    Respondre
    (D)
    a career full of ups and down
  • 40
    Choose the most appropriate option nearest in meaning to the underlined word(s).

    In my view, the play didn't come off?
    Respondre
    (A)
    succeed
  • 41
    Choose the most appropriate option nearest in meaning to the underlined word(s).

    When the chips are down, we will know those who have the courage to stand?
    Respondre
    (A)
    When we get to a crisis point
  • 42
    Choose the most appropriate option nearest in meaning to the underlined word(s).

    In my view, the play didn't come off?
    Respondre
    (A)
    succeed
  • 43
    Choose the most appropriate option nearest in meaning to the underlined word(s).

    She said boxing is in fact her pet aversion?
    Respondre
    (B)
    something she dislikes very much
  • 44
    Choose the most appropriate option nearest in meaning to the underlined word(s).

    The gateman does his work perfunctorily?
    Respondre
    (A)
    without commitment
  • 45
    Choose the most appropriate option nearest in meaning to the underlined word(s).

    Members of the panel were working at cross purposes?
    Respondre
    (B)
    in disunity
  • 46
    Choose the most appropriate option nearest in meaning to the underlined word(s).

    The young man who distributed political pamphlets on campus was promptly repudiated?
    Respondre
    (A)
    disowned
  • 47
    Choose the most appropriate option nearest in meaning to the underlined word(s).

    Adayi is a die-hard criminal?
    Respondre
    (C)
    remorseless
  • 48
    Fill each of the gap with the appropriate option from the list following the the gap.

    In moments of serious economic hardship, many people are ....... to turn to God?
    Respondre
    (D)
    propensed
  • 49
    Fill each of the gap with the appropriate option from the list following the the gap.

    That centre-forward was....... consequently the goal was not disallowed?
    Respondre
    (B)
    very well positioned
  • 50
    Fill each of the gap with the appropriate option from the list following the the gap.

    We cannot all wear expensive shoes in situation of......?
    Respondre
    (C)
    differing purchasing power
  • 51
    Fill each of the gap with the appropriate option from the list following the the gap.

    AIDS is ..... disease that kills slowly but surely?
    Respondre
    (C)
    so deadly a
  • 52
    Fill each of the gap with the appropriate option from the list following the the gap.

    We had a dull evening because ......?
    Respondre
    (B)
    hardly had the talk begun when the light went off
  • 53
    Fill each of the gap with the appropriate option from the list following the the gap.

    Soyinka's masterful ....... of the atmosphere of his childhood helped to make his book, Ake, an ought success?
    Respondre
    (A)
    evocation
  • 54
    Fill each of the gap with the appropriate option from the list following the the gap.

    Students will always blame their teachers when examination results are unfavorable .......?
    Respondre
    (A)
    won't they
  • 55
    Fill each of the gap with the appropriate option from the list following the the gap.

    Okonkwo is a stubborn man, he will never ...... his words?
    Respondre
    (C)
    eat
  • 56
    Fill each of the gap with the appropriate option from the list following the the gap.

    Kindly .... me your book because my friends has ..... mine?
    Respondre
    (D)
    lend / borrowed
  • 57
    Fill each of the gap with the appropriate option from the list following the the gap.

    Three-quarters of the church....... painted by the members the previous day?
    Respondre
    (B)
    was
  • 58
    Fill each of the gap with the appropriate option from the list following the the gap.

    Two young boys have been caught with parts of the stolen machine but....... admitted stealing it?
    Respondre
    (A)
    neither of them has
  • 59
    Fill each of the gap with the appropriate option from the list following the the gap.

    Watching carefully, i could see the fish ...... along the bottom?
    Respondre
    (D)
    darting
  • 60
    Fill each of the gap with the appropriate option from the list following the the gap.

    Emeka is now a ..... student but it took him years to .......?
    Respondre
    (B)
    mature / mature
  • 61
    Fill each of the gap with the appropriate option from the list following the the gap.

    The rebels will soon fight back. We have been informed ...... their ....?
    Respondre
    (C)
    on / rearmament
  • 62
    Fill each of the gap with the appropriate option from the list following the the gap.

    Ali was honest and quite as a schoolboy, but too much drinking has now changed his ..... and ..... his tongue?
    Respondre
    (C)
    temperament / loosened
  • 63
    Fill each of the gap with the appropriate option from the list following the the gap.

    The hospital was closed ...... because there were no beds to put patients ..... ?
    Respondre
    (B)
    off / on
  • 64
    Fill each of the gap with the appropriate option from the list following the the gap.

    The judge with his son ..... travelling to Lagos now?
    Respondre
    (C)
    is
  • 65
    Fill each of the gap with the appropriate option from the list following the the gap.

    A university teacher is an ......?
    Respondre
    (A)
    academic
  • 66
    Fill each of the gap with the appropriate option from the list following the the gap.

    The adventurers run into many ..... in the forest?
    Respondre
    (D)
    deer
  • 67
    Fill each of the gap with the appropriate option from the list following the the gap.

    The class ....... more girls than boys this session?
    Respondre
    (D)
    comprises
  • 68
    Fill each of the gap with the appropriate option from the list following the the gap.

    The tourist bought ...... ?
    Respondre
    (B)
    a small brown Nigerian earthen pot
  • 69
    Fill each of the gaps with the appropriate option from the list following the gap.

    Most of us will attend the conference .... at Ibadan later this year.
    Respondre
    (A)
    holding
  • 70
    Fill each of the gap with the appropriate option from the list following the the gap.

    I have already ..... the picture on the sitting-room wall?
    Respondre
    (D)
    hung