JAMB English Language 2014 Past Questions

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.

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.

Select the option that best explains the information conveyed in the sentence.Jummai's father remarked that pigs would fly before she passed.

Select the option that best explains the information conveyed in the sentence.The president said that he found himself between a rock and a hard place when the press said that he has resigned.

Select the option that best explains the information conveyed in the sentence.Kunana is like a bear in the sore head.

Select the option that best explains the information conveyed in the sentence.Olu gave his brother a bumpy ride.

Select the option that best explains the information conveyed in the sentence.

Adeola doesn't have to go to the farm today.

Select the option that best explains the information conveyed in the sentence.My boss asked me to take my eyes off the ball.

Select the option that best explains the information conveyed in the sentence.The robber was hedged in by the people.

Select the option that best explains the information conveyed in the sentence.Many workers are not happy because they live a hand-to-mouth life.

Choose the option opposite in meaning to the underlined word or phrase. Prolonged strike action debilitated the industry.

Choose the option opposite in meaning to the underlined word or phrase. One of the students bought a plagiarised copy of the book.

Choose the option opposite in meaning to the underlined word or phrase. The young girl was taken aback by her father's gift of a car.

Choose the option opposite in meaning to the underlined word or phrase. Musa is a gifted but erratic player.

Choose the option opposite in meaning to the underlined word or phrase. The lamp shades were translucent.

Choose the option opposite in meaning to the underlined word or phrase. My niece has an unquenchable thirst for adventure stories.

Choose the option opposite in meaning to the underlined word or phrase. Some of my neighbours have an antipathy to dogs.

Choose the option opposite in meaning to the underlined word or phrase. The dressmaker unpicked the seam of the shirt.

Choose the option opposite in meaning to the underlined word or phrase. The testimony of the witness was vague.

Choose the option opposite in meaning to the underlined word or phrase. As a student, Isa tied communal living for a few years.

Choose the option nearest in meaning to the underlined word or phrase. The chairman admires incessant meetings.

Choose the option nearest in meaning to the underlined word or phrase. Today's weather is favourable for a game of tennis.

Choose the option nearest in meaning to the underlined word or phrase.

All the candidates looked aghast at the reading of the questions.

Choose the option nearest in meaning to the underlined word or phrase. Joke gave Muhammad a jaunty smile.

Choose the option nearest in meaning to the underlined word or phrase. The first round of the tournament was a doddle.

Choose the option nearest in meaning to the underlined word or phrase. The lazy man cast a lustful glance at his neighbour's wife.

Choose the option nearest in meaning to the underlined word or phrase. They accused him of fomenting political unrest.

Choose the option nearest in meaning to the underlined word or phrase. You can learn a great deal just from watching other players.

Choose the option nearest in meaning to the underlined word or phrase. All the researchers were asked to gather information on the new viral infection.

Choose the option nearest in meaning to the underlined word or phrase. The dispute between the two countries has resulted in the severing of diplomatic relations.

Choose the option that best complete the gap. The house and the senate will at noon next Wednesday, _________ to hear a special address by the president.

Choose the option that best complete the gap. At the _________ of the century, many ways of doing things were introduced.

Choose the option that best complete the gap. You may have the pencil, but you can't have the ballpoint ________.

Choose the option that best complete the gap. The president said that the country was not out of the _____ yet.

Choose the option that best complete the gap. He went to the restaurant to enjoy the special _____.

Choose the option that best complete the gap.

The invigilator _____ to know how long the examination _____ going on.

Choose the option that best complete the gap. The guard spent all the night pacing _____.

Choose the option that best complete the gap. The woman refused to testify ______ her husband.

Choose the option that best complete the gap. A bike must have found the very interesting movies quite _____.

Choose the option that best complete the gap. The words _____ divided between the end of one line.

Choose the option that best complete the gap. Those _____ are very beautiful.

Choose the option that best complete the gap. Cooking has never been Jumoke's _____.

Choose the option that best complete the gap. when the strike is over, there will probably be an increase in wages and a _____ increase in prices.

Choose the option that best complete the gap. My mother was _____ annoyed with me for coming late.

Choose the option that best complete the gap. The chairman is too much _____ an idealist for coming late.

Choose the option that best complete the gap. The clock _____ 12 o'clock two hours ago.

Choose the option that best complete the gap. What is the jury's _____ the matter.

Choose the option that best complete the gap. The unconscious man was _____ after receiving first aid.

Choose the option that best complete the gap. The laughter _____ his face for a moment.

Choose the option that best complete the gap. She traced her family history _____ matrilineal.