Jamb English Language 1982 Past Questions and Answers

Question 36:

• JAMB 1982

Fill the blank spaces with the most appropriate of options A-E:
What made you ... that?

A. Have said
B. To say
C. Saying
D. Said
E. Say

Question 37:

• JAMB 1982

Fill the blank spaces with the most appropriate of options A-E:
Radium .... Maria Sklodowska Curie.

A. Discovered
B. Is discovering
C. Has discovered
D. Was discovered by
E. Had been discovered by

Question 38:

• JAMB 1982

Fill the blank spaces with the most appropriate of options A-E:
His English was so good that he .... for an Englishman

A. Took
B. Is taken
C. Was taken
D. Has taken
E. Is taking

Question 39:

• JAMB 1982

Fill the blank spaces with the most appropriate of options A-E:
If you .... me that you had run out of petrol, i would have given you some.

A. Were to tell
B. Tell
C. Have told
D. Would tell
E. Had told

Question 40:

• JAMB 1982

Fill the blank spaces with the most appropriate of options A-E:
X: How do you want to be paid .... in cash or by cheque? Y: They asked him .... in cash or by cheque

A. How he wanted to be paid
B. Whether he wanted to be paid
C. How he wants the money
D. How to pay
E. How did he want to be paid