Jamb English Language Past Questions For Year 1978
Question 46
Complete each of the following sentences by choosing the option that most suitably fills the space;
The employer, not the salesman and his representative .... responsible for the loss
- A. are
- B. are being
- C. are never
- D. have been
- E. is
Question 47
Complete each of the following sentences by choosing the option that most suitably fills the space;
Before the operation, the dentist found that his patient's teeth....
- A. have long decayed
- B. have long been decayed
- C. have long being decayed
- D. had long decayed
- E. had been decayed
Question 48
Complete each of the following sentences by choosing the option that most suitably fills the space;
He did not like .... leaving the class early
- A. we
- B. us
- C. our
- D. ourselves
- E. our selves
Question 49
Complete each of the following sentences by choosing the option that most suitably fills the space;
When the beggar was tired he ..... down by the roadside
- A. lied
- B. laid
- C. layed
- D. lay
- E. lain
Question 50
Choose the option that best conveys the meaning of the underlined portion in each of the following sentence;
At the site of the ghastly accident the poor woman's hair stood on end
- A. the woman's hair became straight
- B. the wind blew her hair upwards
- C. the woman was unmoved
- D. the woman disarranged her hair
- E. the woman was frightened
