Jamb English Language 2016 Past Questions and Answers

Question 61:

• JAMB 2016

The words in capital letters have the emphatic stress. Choose the option to which the given sentence relates.
The car CRUSHED him.

A. Who did the car crush?
B. Did a car crush him?
C. What crushed him?
D. Did the car injure him?

Question 62:

• JAMB 2016

The words in capital letters have the emphatic stress. Choose the option to which the given sentence relates.
Lamide is VERY hostile?

A. Is Lamide so hostile?
B. Is Lamide friendly?
C. Was Lamide very hostile?
D. Who is hostile?

Question 63:

• JAMB 2016

The words in capital letters have the emphatic stress. Choose the option to which the given sentence relates.
My house is a BUNGALOW

A. Is my house a terrace ?
B. Was my house a bungalow?
C. Is my house the bungalow?
D. Is his house a bungalow?

Question 64:

• JAMB 2016

Read the passage carefully and answer the question that follows.
Curiosity is as clear and definite as any of our urges. We wonder what is in a sealed telegram or in a letter which someone else is absorbed or what is being said in the telephone booth or in low conversation. This inquisitiveness is vastly stimulated by jealousy. Suspicion or any hint that we ourselves are directly or indirectly involved in. But there appears to be a fair amount of personal interest in other people's affairs even when they do not concern us except as a mystery to be unravelled or a tale to be told. The reports of a divorce suit will have news 'value' for many weeks, They constitute a story like a novel, a play or a moving picture. This is not an example of pure curiosity. However, since we readily identify ourselves with others' their joys and despair then become our own concern.
Adapted from Harris, W. and L.G Wilson (1963) The University Handbook,New York: Holt Rinehart and Winston


Which of the following statements is true according to the passage?

A. Suspicion often stimulates inquisitiveness
B. Every human conduct often gives rise to curiosity
C. Our environment always inhibits curiosity
D. Curiosity is effective where there is no room for it

Question 65:

• JAMB 2016

Read the passage carefully and answer the question that follows.
Curiosity is as clear and definite as any of our urges. We wonder what is in a sealed telegram or in a letter which someone else is absorbed or what is being said in the telephone booth or in low conversation. This inquisitiveness is vastly stimulated by jealousy. Suspicion or any hint that we ourselves are directly or indirectly involved in. But there appears to be a fair amount of personal interest in other people's affairs even when they do not concern us except as a mystery to be unravelled or a tale to be told. The reports of a divorce suit will have news 'value' for many weeks, They constitute a story like a novel, a play or a moving picture. This is not an example of pure curiosity. However, since we readily identify ourselves with others' their joys and despair then become our own concern.
Adapted from Harris, W. and L.G Wilson (1963) The University Handbook,New York: Holt Rinehart and Winston


The word absorbed as used in the passage, means

A. Disturbed
B. Engrossed
C. Covered
D. Entailed