Jamb English Language Past Questions For Year 1978
Question 71
Choose the option that best conveys the meaning of the underlined portion in the following sentence;
Only the small fry get punished for such social misdemeanors
- A. small boys
- B. unimportant people
- C. frightened people
- D. frivolous people
- E. inexperienced people
Question 72
Choose the option that best conveys the meaning of the underlined portion in the following sentence;
In the match against the uplanders team, the sub mariners turned out to be the dark horse
- A. played most brilliantly
- B. played below their usual form
- C. won unexpectedly
- D. lost as expected
- E. won as expected
Question 73
Complete each of the following sentences by choosing the option that most suitably fills the space;
As luck would have it, the weather brightened almost immediately and after six hours flight we .... at Heathrow Airport
- A. touched down
- B. dropped
- C. came down
- D. flew down
- E. stopped
Question 74
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
Read each passage carefully and answer the questions that follow it
All over the world till lately, and in most of the world still today, mankind has been following the course of nature, that is to say, it has been breeding up to the maximum. To let nature take her extravagant course in the reproduction of the human race may have made sense in an age in which we were also letting her take her course in decimating mankind by the casualties of war, pestilence and famine. Being human, we have at last revolted against that senseless waste. We started to impose on nature’s heartless play a humane new order of our own. But, when once man has begun to interfere with nature, he cannot afford to stop half way. We cannot, with impunity, cut down the death-rate and at the same time allow the birth-rate to go on taking nature’s course. we must consciously try to establish an equilibrium or, sooner or later, famine will stalk abroad again
'we must consciously try to establish an equilibrium, (line 8)implies that mankind must
- A. realistically find an equation
- B. strive not to be wasteful
- C. delibrately try to fight nature
- D. try to fight nature
- E. purposely find a balance
