Jamb English Language Past Questions For Year 1984
Question 11
From the alternatives provided in the question below select the one which most appropriately completes the sentence:
The Governor has .... to the people on many occasions
- A. broadcast
- B. been broadcast
- C. broadcasted
- D. being broadcast
- E. been broadcasted
Question 12
From the alternatives provided in the question below select the one which most appropriately completes the sentence:
Mrs. Okoro .... in this school since 1975.
- A. taught
- B. is teaching
- C. was teaching
- D. teaches
- E. has been teaching
Question 13
From the alternatives provided in the question below select the one which most appropriately completes the sentence:
I meant ... a pencil but there was no one .... there.
- A. buying/selling
- B. to buy/to sell
- C. buying/to sell
- D. buy/to sell
- E. to buy/selling
Question 14
From the alternatives provided in the question below select the one which most appropriately completes the sentence:
Wherever the leader went people struggled to catch a .... of him
- A. look
- B. view
- C. glimpse
- D. portrait
- E. picture
Question 15
From the alternatives provided in the question below select the one which most appropriately completes the sentence:
The driver of that lorry .... lost his life during the collision
- A. barely
- B. hardly
- C. nearly
- D. closely
- E. narrowly
