Sentence Interpretation - Jamb English Language Past Questions and Answers

Question 116:

• JAMB 1999

Select the option that best explain the information conveyed in the sentence.
Hundreds of used items will go under the hammer during the weekend?

A. Unserviceable goods will be publicly destroyed at the weekend
B. Impounded household items will be sold to the public before the weekend
C. Damage items will be sold next weekend
D. Many old items will be auctioned this weekend

Question 117:

• JAMB 1999

Select the option that best explain the information conveyed in the sentence.
The horizon may not be clear now, but the troubled spots have certainly been noted?

A. The horizon is dependent on the troubled spots
B. Clarity of the horizon is dependent on the perception of the troubled spots
C. The troubled spots are more perceptible than the horizon
D. Horizon, clarity of the troubled spots and clarity are remarkably noted

Question 118:

• JAMB 1999

Select the option that best explain the information conveyed in the sentence.
The crowd in the hall is intimidating?

A. The crowd is frightening
B. The crowd is angry
C. The crowd is overwhelming
D. The crowd is riotous

Question 119:

• JAMB 1999

  In many places in the world today, the poor are getting poorer while the rich are getting richer and the programmes of development planning and foreign aid appear to be unable to reverse this trade. Nearly all the developing countries have a modern sector, where the pattern of living and working are similar to those in developed countries. But they also have a non-modern sector where the patterns of living and working are not only unsatisfactory but in many cases are even getting worse.
  what is the typical condition of the poor in developing countries? Their work opportunities are so limited that they cannot work their way out of their situation. They are underemployed or totally unemployed. When they do find occasional works, their productivity is extremely low. Some of them have land but often too little land. Many have no land and no prospect of ever getting any. There is no hope for them in the rural areas and so, they drift into the big cities. But there is no work for them in the big cities either-and of course no housing. All the same, they flock into cities because their chances of finding some work appear to be greater there than in the village, where they are nil. Rural unemployment then produces mass migration into cities, rural unemployment becomes urban unemployment.
  The problem can be stated quite simply: what can be done to promote economic growth outside the big cities, in the small towns and villages which still contain 80 to 90% of the total population? The primary need is workplace, literally millions of workplaces.


Where are the rich getting richer and the poor poorer?

A. In nearly all developing countries
B. In a majority of countries in the world
C. In developing countries with modern sectors
D. In countries with non-modern sectors

Question 120:

• JAMB 2000

Select the option that best explain the information conveyed in the sentence?
If he were here, it could be more fun.

A. He did not show up and so the occasion lacked much fun
B. He was being expected to supply more fun
C. There was not fun because he was not present
D. He was expected but did not show up to liven up the occasion