Lexis and Structure - Jamb English Language Past Questions and Answers

Question 646:

• JAMB 1984

From the alternatives provided in the question below select the one which most appropriately completes the sentence:
Our Literature Master said that he would show us a film on Macbeth. The film will ....

A. Worth seeing
B. Worth seeing it
C. Be worth to see
D. Be worth seeing
E. Be worthy seeing

Question 647:

• JAMB 1984

From the alternatives provided in the question below select the one which most appropriately completes the sentence:
The driver of that lorry .... lost his life during the collision

A. Barely
B. Hardly
C. Nearly
D. Closely
E. Narrowly

Question 648:

• JAMB 1984

From the alternatives provided in the question below select the one which most appropriately completes the sentence:
Wherever the leader went people struggled to catch a .... of him

A. Look
B. View
C. Glimpse
D. Portrait
E. Picture

Question 649:

• JAMB 1984

From the alternatives provided in the question below select the one which most appropriately completes the sentence:
I meant ... a pencil but there was no one .... there.

A. Buying/selling
B. To buy/to sell
C. Buying/to sell
D. Buy/to sell
E. To buy/selling

Question 650:

• JAMB 1984

From the alternatives provided in the question below select the one which most appropriately completes the sentence:
Mrs. Okoro .... in this school since 1975.

A. Taught
B. Is teaching
C. Was teaching
D. Teaches
E. Has been teaching