Comprehension/Summary - Jamb English Language Past Questions and Answers

Question 861:

• JAMB 2016

Efua's guarded and hostile attitude towards boys could be traced to

A. The teachings she had from her cleric
B. Stories she had heard from her aunt
C. The experience she had with her stepfather
D. Her innate sense of justice

Question 862:

• JAMB 2016

Jimi was very prominent in Forcados High School because he was

A. The son of a great scholar
B. The only child of his parents
C. One of the school prefects
D. Noted for his good paintings

Question 863:

• 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 864:

• 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

Question 865:

• 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


From the passage, it can be deduced that curiosity thrives

A. Through conducts that are inimical to our activities
B. If we are able to probe into what others are thinking
C. Only if we become suspicious of people's motives
D. If the subject of discussion is of interest to us