Jamb 1980 English Language Past Questions with Answers

Jamb 1980 English Language Past Questions

Question 11:

JAMB 1980

Fill in the blank spaces in the following sentences making use of the best of the five options

The old car .... several times this year

A. Was repaired
B. Has been repaired
C. Had been repaired
D. Has repaired
E. Was being repaired

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Question 12:

JAMB 1980

Choose the word or phrase closest in meaning to the underlined word:

His penury gave him a lifetime of hunger

A. Avariciousness
B. Affluence
C. Poverty
D. Penny pinching
E. Greed

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Question 13:

JAMB 1980

Choose the word or phrase closest in meaning to the underlined word:

The bible's prodigal son became quite wealth eventually

A. Prestigious
B. Phlegmatic
C. Errant
D. Pecuniary
E. Extravagant

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Question 14:

JAMB 1980

Choose the word or phrase closest in meaning to the underlined word:

Don't eat just any innocuous looking mushroom you see around

A. Harmful
B. Harmless
C. Innocent
D. Immunized
E. Conspicuous

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Question 15:

JAMB 1980

Choose the word or phrase closest in meaning to the underlined word:

Colossal means

A. A greek column
B. Gigantic
C. Something which has lost too much fluid
D. A calamity
E. The sale of colos

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