Jamb English Language Past Questions For Year 1990
Question 16
In the question below choose the word(s) or phrase(s) which best fill(s) the gap:
If it had rained, we would have had to postpone the concert. It didn't rain, so ....
- A. we won't have to
- B. we would have had to
- C. we wouldn't have to
- D. we didn't have to
Question 17
In the question below choose the word(s) or phrase(s) which best fill(s) the gap:
A number of teachers in secondary schools are not so well disposed to .... these days, .... they?
- A. teach/aren't
- B. teaching/are
- C. teach/do
- D. teach/are
Question 18
In the question below choose the word(s) or phrase(s) which best fill(s) the gap:
The competitor who .... earlier on has started .... again
- A. fainted/to run
- B. had fainted/to run
- C. fainted/running
- D. fainted/on running
Question 19
In the question below choose the word(s) or phrase(s) which best fill(s) the gap:
I heard that Kayode's car was stolen last night. It .... be true because i saw him .... it, this morning.
- A. should not/driving
- B. should not/drive
- C. cannot/drive
- D. cannot/driving
Question 20
In the question below choose the word(s) or phrase(s) which best fill(s) the gap:
.... to help him, being the only person in the vicinity.
- A. it was not possible
- B. There was no one
- C. He had no nobody
- D. No person was around
