Jamb 1998 English Past Questions And Answers
Choose the most appropriate optionnearest in meaning to the underlined word(s).
It would need ahigh flyer to make a first class degree in the university?
- A. a smart performer
- B. an outright genius
- C. an outstanding scholar
- D. an unmitigated swot
Fill each of the gap with the appropriate option from the list following the the gap.
Soyinka's masterful ....... of the atmosphere of his childhood helped to make his book, Ake, an ought success?
- A. envocation
- B. invocation
- C. convocation
- D. revocation
Choose the most appropriate optionnearest in meaning to the underlined word(s).
Any student found guilty of examination malpractice should be allowed tostew in his juice?
- A. taste a repeat of the examination
- B. suffer the consequences of his action
- C. bear the burnt of the disgrace
- D. forfeit the opportunity of further education
Fill each of the gap with the appropriate option from the list following the the gap. We cannot all wear expensive shoes in situation of......?
- A. divergent demand and supply
- B. uneven wear and tear
- C. differing purchasing power
- D. unpredicted national income
Select the option that best explains the information conveyed in the sentence.
The slide in the price of gold in the world market has left the industry reeling?
- A. The gradual fall in gold price is making the industry unstable
- B. The stablity in gold price is making the industry stagnant
- C. The decline in gold price is making the industry redundant
- D. The increase in gold price is making the industry to boom
Choose the most appropriate optionnearest in meaning to the underlined word(s).
If experience is anything to go by, this action will prove apolitical minefield?
- A. a source of political benefits
- B. a way out of political trouble
- C. a cause for political joy
- D. an invitiation to political problems
Select the option that best explains the information conveyed in the sentence.
A state of mutual hatred existed for years between the two villages of Umunna and Ogboma?
- A. Umunna hated Ogboma
- B. Ogboma hated Umunna
- C. Ogboma and Umunna hated themselves
- D. Umunna and Ogboma hated each other
Fill each of the gap with the appropriate option from the list following the the gap. That centre-forward was....... consequently the goal was not disallowed?
- A. in an off-side position
- B. very well positioned
- C. a brilliant player
- D. the captain of the team
Choose the most appropriate optionnearest in meaning to the underlined word(s).
Surely, Ahmed is aball of fire?
- A. quarrelsome person
- B. a hot-headed activist
- C. a fiery speaker or writer
- D. a very energetic person
Fill each of the gap with the appropriate option from the list following the the gap.
Three-quarters of the church....... painted by the members the previous day?
- A. were
- B. was
- C. is
- D. are

