Jamb English Language Past Questions For Year 1982
Question 16
Choose the word or phrase from options A - E which has the nearest in meaning to the underlined word or words in each sentences:
When you go to a foreign country to study, you will discover that life is not always a bed of roses.
- A. as pleasant as one thought
- B. a bed without roses
- C. an unmitegated disappointment
- D. as expected
- E. uncomfortable
Question 17
Choose the word or phrase from options A - E which has the nearest in meaning to the underlined word or words in each sentences:
My friend will hate his uncle forever because he left him in the lurch in his hour of need
- A. Abandoned him
- B. punished him
- C. disrespect him
- D. disinherited him
- E. despised him
Question 18
Choose the word or phrase from options A - E which has the nearest in meaning to the underlined word or words in each sentences:
Most of the time my Boss tells cock and bull stories
- A. costly
- B. unreasonable
- C. clever
- D. untrue
- E. funny
Question 19
Choose the word or phrase from options A - E which has the nearest in meaning to the underlined word or words in each sentences:
My mother has refused to come to live in Lagos because she prefers the tranquil life in the village to the hurly burly of the city.
- A. free
- B. properous
- C. peaceful
- D. decent
- E. happy
Question 20
Choose the word or phrase from options A - E which has the nearest in meaning to the underlined word or words in each sentences:
The general promised the soldier would go back to the barracks
- A. barricade
- B. army
- C. military trainig school
- D. soldiers' quarters
- E. civilian quarters
