Idiomatic Expressions - Jamb English Language Past Questions and Answers

Question 1:

• JAMB 1978

Choose the options which is nearest in meaning to the sentences in each of the following questions.

We visited the home of one boy. That's the boy i mean.

A. That's the boy whom we visited his home
B. That's the boy whose home we visited
C. That's the boy to whose home we visited
D. That's the boy the home of whom we visited

Question 2:

• JAMB 1978

Choose the option that best conveys the meaning of the underlined portion in the following sentence;

In the match against the uplanders team, the sub mariners turned out to be the dark horse

A. Played most brilliantly
B. Played below their usual form
C. Won unexpectedly
D. Lost as expected
E. Won as expected

Question 3:

• JAMB 1978

Choose the option that best conveys the meaning of the underlined portion in the following sentence;

Only the small fry get punished for such social misdemeanors

A. Small boys
B. Unimportant people
C. Frightened people
D. Frivolous people
E. Inexperienced people

Question 4:

• JAMB 2017

Select the option that best explain the information conveyed in the sentence
The man's Achilles' heel is women ________

A. His weakness is women
B. His strength is women
C. He fights women
D. He respects women

Question 5:

• JAMB 1982

Choose the word or phrase from options A - E which has the nearest in meaning to the underlined word or words in each sentences:
Most of the time my Boss tells cock and bull stories

A. Costly
B. Unreasonable
C. Clever
D. Untrue
E. Funny