Jamb English Language Past Questions For Year 1982

Question 41

Fill the blank spaces with the most appropriate of options A-E:

If you .... me that you had run out of petrol, i would have given you some.

jamb 1982

  • A. were to tell
  • B. tell
  • C. have told
  • D. would tell
  • E. had told
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Question 42

Fill the blank spaces with the most appropriate of options A-E:

His English was so good that he .... for an Englishman

jamb 1982

  • A. took
  • B. is taken
  • C. was taken
  • D. has taken
  • E. is taking
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Question 43

Fill the blank spaces with the most appropriate of options A-E:

Radium .... Maria Sklodowska Curie.

jamb 1982

  • A. discovered
  • B. is discovering
  • C. has discovered
  • D. was discovered by
  • E. had been discovered by
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Question 44

Fill the blank spaces with the most appropriate of options A-E:

What made you ... that?

jamb 1982

  • A. have said
  • B. to say
  • C. saying
  • D. said
  • E. say
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Question 45

Fill the blank spaces with the most appropriate of options A-E:

I am not used to .... on the left

jamb 1982

  • A. drive
  • B. having driven
  • C. driving
  • D. have driven
  • E. being driving
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