Jamb English Language 2001 Past Questions and Answers

Question 71:

• JAMB 2001

Fill the each gap with the most appropriate option from the list option from the list provided.
The editor was not happy that the Nigerian press was hemmed ....... ?

A. Up
B. Over
C. Across
D. In

Question 72:

• JAMB 2001

Fill the each gap with the most appropriate option from the list option from the list provided.
Three quarter of the hostel ........ been painted and three quarter of the students ...... moved in.

A. Has/ has
B. Has /have
C. Hace / has
D. Have / have

Question 73:

• JAMB 2001

Fill the each gap with the most appropriate option from the list option from the list provided.
A wide range of options ....... made available to the political parties during the recently concluded elections?

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

Question 74:

• JAMB 2001

  By 1910, the motor car was plainly conquering the highway. The private car was now part of every rich man’s establishment, although its price made it as yet an impossible luxury for most of the middle class. But for the adventuresome youth, there was the motor cycle, a fearsome invention producing accidents and ear-splitting noises. Already the dignified carriages and smart pony-traps were beginning to disappear from the roads and coachmen and grooms unless mechanically minded, were finding it more difficult to make a living.
  The roads which had gone to sleep since the coming of the railway now awoke to feverish activity. Cars and motor cycles dashed along them at speeds which rivalled those of the express trains and the lorry began to appear. Therefore, the road system was compelled to adapt itself to a volume and speed of traffic for which it had never intended. Its complete adaptation was impossible, but the road surface was easily transformed and during the early years of the century, the dustiness and greasiness of the highways were lessened by tar-spraying. To widen and straighten the roads and get rid of blind corners and every steep gradient were tasks which had scarcely been tackled before 1914. the Situation was worst of all in towns where not only was any large scheme of road widening usually out of the question, but also where crowding and danger were all too frequently increased by the short-sighted eagerness of town authorities in laying down tramlines.
  Yet, it was not only the road system that was in need of readjustment; the nervous system who used and dwelt by the road suffered. The noises caused by the conversion of the roads into speedways called for a corresponding lightening up of the nerves and especially I the towns, the pedestrian who wished to preserve life and limb was compelled to keep his attention continually on the stretch to practise himself in estimates of the speed of approaching vehicles and to run or jump for his life if he ventured off the pavement.


One of the following statements can be deduced from the passage

A. People no longer used trains with the advant of cars and lorries
B. Significant improvement occured in road trandport since the advent of cars, lorries and motor cycles
C. Human society was ststic without the express spees of cars and motorcycles
D. Society would be better without the chaotic volumes and speed of motor cars, lorries and motor cycles

Question 75:

• JAMB 2001

  By 1910, the motor car was plainly conquering the highway. The private car was now part of every rich man’s establishment, although its price made it as yet an impossible luxury for most of the middle class. But for the adventuresome youth, there was the motor cycle, a fearsome invention producing accidents and ear-splitting noises. Already the dignified carriages and smart pony-traps were beginning to disappear from the roads and coachmen and grooms unless mechanically minded, were finding it more difficult to make a living.
  The roads which had gone to sleep since the coming of the railway now awoke to feverish activity. Cars and motor cycles dashed along them at speeds which rivalled those of the express trains and the lorry began to appear. Therefore, the road system was compelled to adapt itself to a volume and speed of traffic for which it had never intended. Its complete adaptation was impossible, but the road surface was easily transformed and during the early years of the century, the dustiness and greasiness of the highways were lessened by tar-spraying. To widen and straighten the roads and get rid of blind corners and every steep gradient were tasks which had scarcely been tackled before 1914. the Situation was worst of all in towns where not only was any large scheme of road widening usually out of the question, but also where crowding and danger were all too frequently increased by the short-sighted eagerness of town authorities in laying down tramlines.
  Yet, it was not only the road system that was in need of readjustment; the nervous system who used and dwelt by the road suffered. The noises caused by the conversion of the roads into speedways called for a corresponding lightening up of the nerves and especially I the towns, the pedestrian who wished to preserve life and limb was compelled to keep his attention continually on the stretch to practise himself in estimates of the speed of approaching vehicles and to run or jump for his life if he ventured off the pavement.


From the passage, it is obvious the

A. Motor cars were mere luxuries which many peopls tried desperately to acquire
B. The motor car was invented before the express trains.
C. The train was the fastest means of transport before the motor car and the lorry
D. The motor car and the lorry came to displace the train trafic