Jamb English Language Past Questions For Year 2005

Question 1

Choose the option that has a different stress pattern from the others.

The EAGLES won the match.

jamb 2005

• A. Did the Eagles lose the match?
• B. Who won the match ?
• C. What did the Eagles win?
• D. Did the Eagles win the match?

Question 2

The word in capital letters has the emphatic stress. Choose the option to which the given sentence relates.

Your mother CAN cook the meal.

jamb 2005

• A. Who will cook the meal?
• B. Can my father cook the meal?
• C. Isn''t my mother able to cook the meal?
• D. What can my mother do?

Question 3

Choose the option that has a different stress pattern from the others.

jamb 2005

• A. impound
• B. subject (verb)
• C. canoe
• D. knowledge

Question 4

Choose the option that has a different stress pattern from the others.

jamb 2005

• A. interpreter
• B. impossible
• C. remarkable
• D. critism

Question 5

Choose the option that has the same stress pattern as the given word.

downtrodden?

jamb 2005

• A. downgrading
• B. prescribing
• C. functional
• D. internal