Jamb English Language Past Questions For Year 1982
Question 11
Choose the word or phrase from options A - E which has the opposite in meaning to the underlined word or words in each sentences:
It is generally believed that misers are not loved by many
- A. spendthrifts
- B. spenders
- C. hoaders
- D. savers
- E. thieves
Question 12
Choose the word or phrase from options A - E which has the opposite in meaning to the underlined word or words in each sentences:
While most of our recently elected legislators are living a life of affluence and ostentation the vast majority of those who elected them into office are unhappy
- A. influence
- B. pleasure
- C. poverty
- D. happiness
- E. consequence
Question 13
Choose the word or phrase from options A - E which has the opposite in meaning to the underlined word or words in each sentence:
Never in the history of human conflict has so much been owed by so many to so few.
- A. Many people owed much money at the end of the war
- B. A handful of people saved the lives of a nation
- C. A few people did a lot of things gratis
- D. This conflict caused the largest ransome ever demanded
- E. Very little was owed by anyone to anybody
Question 14
Choose the word or phrase from options A - E which has the nearest in meaning to the underlined word or words in each sentences:
There is an end - of - session party tonight but Sola hasn't finished her term paper.She's unlikely to come
- A. I doubt whether she will come
- B. She will likely come
- C. It isn't unliklely her to come
- D. She doesn't like coming to party
- E. ther is a small possibility that she might come
Question 15
Choose the word or phrase from options A - E which has the nearest in meaning to the underlined word or words in each sentences:
A lorry larger than an elephant was stuck on the bridge.
- A. as large as an elephant
- B. carring an elephant
- C. that looked like an elephant
- D. with elephantiasis
- E. of enormous proportions
