Lexis and Structure - Jamb English Language Past Questions and Answers

Question 71:

• JAMB 1978

Choose the option which is nearest in meaning to the sentences in each of the following questions:

The dog was limping. It appeared that one of its legs might have been injured

A. The dog was limping as if it had an injured leg
B. The dog was limping as it had an injured leg
C. The dog was limping so it had an injured leg
D. The dog was limping so as it had an injured leg
E. The dog was limping for it had an injured leg

Question 72:

• JAMB 1978

Choose the option which is nearest in meaning to the sentences in each of the following questions:

I can walk that distance and have done so many times

A. I am used to walk that distance
B. I used to walk that distance
C. I used to walking that distance
D. I am used to walking that distance
E. I will walk that distance

Question 73:

• JAMB 1978

Choose the option which is nearest in meaning to the sentences in each of the following questions:

For all he cared, his parent might have been dead for years

A. Although concern about his parent,he had been unable to find out if they were alive
B. He cared for no one except his parents, and it was possible that they had died long before
C. He did not care whether his parents were alive or had died long before
D. He was concerned about everyone not just his parents, who might have died long before
E. He cared very much for his parents even though they were dead

Question 74:

• 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 75:

• JAMB 1979

Choose the expression or word which best complete each sentence:

....for the team for six years, he decided to join another

A. When he played
B. Playing
C. Having played
D. In playing
E. When he was playing