Jamb English Language Past Questions For Year 2014
Question 1
Select the option that best explains the information conveyed in the sentence.
Jummai's father remarked that pigs would fly before she passed.
- A. She would have to cheat in order to pass.
- B. It would be possible to pass only if she worked harder.
- C. It would never be possible for her to pass.
- D. He would have to bribe her teachers to enable her to pass.
Question 2
Select the option that best explains the information conveyed in the sentence.
The police are looking for the woman who farmed her children out to her neighbours.
- A. The police wanted the woman for allowing her children to destroy her neighbour's crops.
- B. The woman and her children are in the habit of working in neighbour's farms and the police are not well disposed to this
- C. The police may arrest the woman for allowing her neighbours to take care of her children.
- D. The woman may be arrested for allowing her children to be a nuisance to her neighbours
Question 3
Select the option that best explains the information conveyed in the sentence.
The minister considered the ministry's budget to be a drop in the ocean in view of the number of projects in the pipeline.
- A. The pipeline project across the ocean will be abandoned unless budgetary allocation improves
- B. The amount available may be inadequate for projected expenditure
- C. The minister may be dropped for failing to complete a number of projects
- D. The money approved cannont complete the pipeline project acorss the ocean
Question 4
Select the option that best explains the information conveyed in the sentence.
My boss asked me to take my eyes off the ball.
- A. I should stop paying attention to what is most important.
- B. I should be focused when i am about to stay off football.
- C. I should stay off football after sustaining an injuiry.
- D. I should be focused when playing football.
Question 5
Select the option that best explains the information conveyed in the sentence.
Adeola doesn't have to go to the farm today.
- A. Adeola may go to the farm today if he so wishes.
- B. Adeola ought not to have gone to the farm today.
- C. Adeola must not go to the farm today.
- D. Adeola should not go to the farm today.
