English Language Jamb Practice Questions & Answers 2021 Set 1
1. Choose the one nearest in meaning to the word(s) in bracket
Okibe was rusticated for his [derogatory] remark about the principal
A. complimentary
B. unwarranted
C. lack luster
D. unsavoury
Correct Answer: Option D
Explanation
Unsavoury means unpleasant or morally offensive, the most suitable synonym for derogatory in this regard.
2. Choose the one nearest in meaning to the word(s) in bracket
Some men will continue to cause offences until they are given [a taste of their own medicine]
A. placated
B. revenged on
C. cured
D. recompensed for
Correct Answer: Option B
Explanation
Revenged on is the correct answer. To have 'a taste of your own medicine' is to have the same unpleasant experience that one has caused another.
3. Choose the one nearest in meaning to the word(s) in bracket
Justice is difficult to enforce because people are unwilling to accept any loss of [sovereignty]
A. positing
B. leadership
C. autonomy
D. kingdom
Correct Answer: Option C
Explanation
Autonomy is the correct answer. Sovereignty means a situation of self-sufficiency and self-governance.
4. His many years of success in legal practise.... didn't come out without challenges
A. but
B. in spite of all
C. indeed
D. however
Correct Answer: Option D
Explanation
However is used when trying to include a new point, or buttress an old one with a comparison
5. Choose the word that has the same rhyme scheme
Thyme
A. climb
B. bind
C. time
D. lime
Correct Answer: Option C
Explanation
'Time' sounds approximately the same way when pronounced as 'Thyme'
6. Choose the one nearest in meaning to the word(s) in bracket
There are still [virtous] women in our society today
A. devilish
B. clever
C. intelligent
D. upright
Correct Answer: Option D
Explanation
Upright is correct answer. Virtuous means having and demonstrating high level of moral standards or ethics, which is the same as being upright,
7. Choose the one nearest in meaning to the word(s) in bracket.
This type of response is [typical] of a lazy teacher
A. symptomatic
B. characteristics
C. universal
D. incontestable
Correct Answer: Option B
Explanation
Characteristic is correct answer. A thing is described as 'typical' of something else when becomes an observable and noticeable quality or attribute of it.
8. Choose the word with the same vowel sound as the one in bracket
Orthop[ae]dic
A. elite
B. impase
C. cacophony
D. sharp
Correct Answer: Option A
Explanation
Elite is the correct answer. The vowel /i:/ pronounced as 'eee' (as in letter E e.g. tea) sound is present
9. Choose the word with the same vowel sound as the one in bracket
Band[a]ge
A. kite
B. says
C. cacophony
D. cage
Correct Answer: Option C
Explanation
The vowel /i/ as in bit is present here. Only the very last sound pronunciation of 'cacophony' bears the same answer.
Passage
Read the Passage carefully and answer the questions that follow.
The term Mass Communication occurs when information is disseminated to a relatively large number of people in different places. it should be seen as the same thing with talking face to face with someone else. With mass communication, there is no answer, smile, laugh or lock of surprise. the people who receive the message are as far away from the source of the message as far away as you are from the announcers on the radio or from the newscasters on television, or from the writer of a column in the local newspaper.
There are three identifiable means of errors in mass communication. There is one done through the printed words, books, magazine and newspapers. The other is primarily radio, but also records and tape recordings. Also, it can be done through a combination of sound and pictures as in television, films and the more recently popular video tape.
Together, they are referred to as the mass media.
All media can be used to inform and entertain. However, there are coverts roles played. It may be to educate as in school broadcast. Again, the aim may be to persuade as when the media are used by advertisers or for political broadcasts. The media are often in strong position to influence public opinion because they select the topics to be presented and can stress the importance of one issue over the other.
The mass media have, in recent times, come under acerbic criticism. Many presenters have become not only conscientized but also immensely concerned about the possible effects that science of violence and bad behavior may have on their children. More worrisome are the potential danger of political and commercial propaganda.
10. A suitable title for the above passage can be:
A. Mass communication
B. The mass media and the people
C. The purpose of mass media
D. The good and the bad side of the media
Correct Answer: Option B
Explanation
The passage is expository enough to largely cover mass communication as a career, practice, relative importance and societal impact and effect.
Passage
Read the Passage carefully and answer the questions that follow.
The term Mass Communication occurs when information is disseminated to a relatively large number of people in different places. it should be seen as the same thing with talking face to face with someone else. With mass communication, there is no answer, smile, laugh or lock of surprise. the people who receive the message are as far away from the source of the message as far away as you are from the announcers on the radio or from the newscasters on television, or from the writer of a column in the local newspaper.
There are three identifiable means of errors in mass communication. There is one done through the printed words, books, magazine and newspapers. The other is primarily radio, but also records and tape recordings. Also, it can be done through a combination of sound and pictures as in television, films and the more recently popular video tape.
Together, they are referred to as the mass media.
All media can be used to inform and entertain. However, there are coverts roles played. It may be to educate as in school broadcast. Again, the aim may be to persuade as when the media are used by advertisers or for political broadcasts. The media are often in strong position to influence public opinion because they select the topics to be presented and can stress the importance of one issue over the other.
The mass media have, in recent times, come under acerbic criticism. Many presenters have become not only conscientized but also immensely concerned about the possible effects that science of violence and bad behavior may have on their children. More worrisome are the potential danger of political and commercial propaganda.
11. The means of mass media can be summarized into:
A. Radio, Television and Newspaper
B. Newspaper,books and journals
C. Print and Electronic
D. Print, Electronic and Advertisement
Correct Answer: Option C
Explanation
Mass media means technology that is intended to reach a mass audience. It is the primary means of communication used to reach the vast majority of the general public. The most common platforms for mass media according to the passage are newspapers, magazines, radio, television. These can be summarized into print (Newspaper, magazines) and electronic (Radio and Television)
12. One of the following is NOT true in the passage
A. Mass communication don't talk
B. Mass communication don't personalize discourse
C. Mass media determine what the public gets to know
D. All of the above
Correct Answer: Option A
Explanation
Mass communication in the passage was directly likened to having a physical interaction with a person. This makes Option A contradictory with the passage, hence the answer.
13. One major source of worry about the mass media is from?
A. Broadcasting
B. Advertisement
C. Political rallies
D. News casting
Correct Answer: Option C
Explanation
From the last paragraph, the ruling class may influence popular thinking and create certain impression and even direct the course of social discussions by simply buying and/or controlling the media.
14. All the following are roles of the media but?
A. Entertainment
B. Sensitization
C. Information
D. Moralization
Correct Answer: Option D
Explanation
moralization - means indulgence in moral pronouncements; or the exposition of a particular moral code.
This is not a role of mass media according to the passage
Passage
Choose the most appropriate option for each group for questions
Alice, a small fragile-looking Ugandan mother, is dying of AIDS. She lives with her son and daughter in a tin-roofed shack on the .....1... of Kampala. When her husband died of AIDS in 1987, Alice discovered she was HIV positive. Frequent ...2..... of sickness forced her to give up her embroidery job. She was so depressed that she just wanted to eat. ....3.... by a neighbour, the mobile care unit from Nsambya hospital went to her home. They convinced her to start taking proper ..4....... After three months of ....5.... treatment, she regained her will to live. The AIDS time bomb .....6... on relentlessly. The World Health Organization ....7.... that 1.8 million Ugandans are HIV positive, nearly one in eight of the total population. The Ugandan AIDS Commission set up by President Museveni ..8...... the spread of the disease. However, under-porting and the lack of post-mortem and ...9..... makes it impossible to establish exact figures. No one ....10.... that it is a disaster far worse than the years of civil war.
15. Alice, a small fragile-looking Ugandan mother, is dying of AIDS. She lives with her son and daughter in a tin-roofed shack on the .....1... of Kampala.
A. Outskirts
B. Suburbs
C. Interior
D. Outside
Correct Answer: Option A
Explanation
Outskirts is often used to refer to the outer parts of a town or city.
Passage
Choose the most appropriate option for each group for questions
Alice, a small fragile-looking Ugandan mother, is dying of AIDS. She lives with her son and daughter in a tin-roofed shack on the .....1... of Kampala. When her husband died of AIDS in 1987, Alice discovered she was HIV positive. Frequent ...2..... of sickness forced her to give up her embroidery job. She was so depressed that she just wanted to eat. ....3.... by a neighbour, the mobile care unit from Nsambya hospital went to her home. They convinced her to start taking proper ..4....... After three months of ....5.... treatment, she regained her will to live. The AIDS time bomb .....6... on relentlessly. The World Health Organization ....7.... that 1.8 million Ugandans are HIV positive, nearly one in eight of the total population. The Ugandan AIDS Commission set up by President Museveni ..8...... the spread of the disease. However, under-porting and the lack of post-mortem and ...9..... makes it impossible to establish exact figures. No one ....10.... that it is a disaster far worse than the years of civil war.
16. When her husband died of AIDS in 1987, Alice discovered she was HIV positive. Frequent ...2..... of sickness forced her to give up her embroidery job.
A. sufferings
B. Happenings
C. Rounds
D. Bouts
Correct Answer: Option D
Explanation
Bouts indicate short periods of intense activity of a specified kind.
17. She was so depressed that she just wanted to eat. ....3.... by a neighbour, the mobile care unit from Nsambya hospital went to her home.
A. Attracted
B. Visited
C. Noticed
D. Alerted
Correct Answer: Option D
Explanation
A neighbor who saw and observed (noticed) Alice decided to come to her aid.
18.They convinced her to start taking proper ..4.......
A. Cure
B. Medication
C. Measures
D. Precautions
Correct Answer: Option B
Explanation
Medication refers to treatment using drugs or other form medicine to improve a particular condition or illness.
19. After three months of ....5.... treatment, she regained her will to live.
A. Intensive
B. Healthy
C. Safe
D. Heavy
Correct Answer: Option A
Explanation
Intensive means thorough and is usually used to describe a situation involving a lot of effort or activity.
20. The AIDS time bomb .....6... on relentlessly.
A. Strikes
B. Burns
C. Ticks
D. Drops
Correct Answer: Option A
Explanation
Strikes as in this context means to occur suddenly and have harmful or damaging effects.
Passage
Choose the most appropriate option for each group for questions
Alice, a small fragile-looking Ugandan mother, is dying of AIDS. She lives with her son and daughter in a tin-roofed shack on the .....1... of Kampala. When her husband died of AIDS in 1987, Alice discovered she was HIV positive. Frequent ...2..... of sickness forced her to give up her embroidery job. She was so depressed that she just wanted to eat. ....3.... by a neighbour, the mobile care unit from Nsambya hospital went to her home. They convinced her to start taking proper ..4....... After three months of ....5.... treatment, she regained her will to live. The AIDS time bomb .....6... on relentlessly. The World Health Organization ....7.... that 1.8 million Ugandans are HIV positive, nearly one in eight of the total population. The Ugandan AIDS Commission set up by President Museveni ..8...... the spread of the disease. However, under-porting and the lack of post-mortem and ...9..... makes it impossible to establish exact figures. No one ....10.... that it is a disaster far worse than the years of civil war.
21. The World Health Organization ....7.... that 1.8 million Ugandans are HIV positive, nearly one in eight of the total population.
A. Judges
B. Supposes
C. proposes
D. Estimates
Correct Answer: Option D
Explanation
To estimate is to approximately calculate or form a judgment of the value, number, extent or quantity of something.
22. The Ugandan AIDS Commission set up by President Museveni ..8...... the spread of the disease.
A. Limits
B. Anticipates
C. Monitors
D. Increases
Correct Answer: Option C
Explanation
The Ugandan AIDS Commission seeks to check and curb the spread of the disease.
23. However, under-porting and the lack of post-mortem and ...9..... makes it impossible to establish exact figures.
A. Facilitates
B. Amenities
C. Condition
D. Provisions
Correct Answer: Option A
Explanation
The most suitable and all embracing answer here is facilities.
24. No one ....10.... that it is a disaster far worse than the years of civil war.
A. Denies
B. Claims
C. Rejects
D. Imagines
Correct Answer: Option A
Explanation
Denies is the best answer. It is unarguably true that AIDS in Ugandan is a disaster worse off than the tragedies of their Civil War.
25. Questions below are based on Bolaji Abdullahi's "Sweet Sixteen"
The significance of Mr Bello's advice to Aliya on Bobo's gift is that
A. the gift a demonstration of love and affection
B. the gift shouldn't necessarily impose an obligation on Aliya to act in tune with Bobo's interest
C. one of the foundations of his marriage with Aliya's mother is through gifting
D. once a boy gives a girl a gift it necessarily means that he has an interest in mind
Correct Answer: Option B
Explanation
The significance of Mr Bello's advice is that the recipient of a gift shouldn't out of indebtedness feel obliged to act upon the gesture of the giver, as such doesn't necessarily mean true love and affection.
26. Questions below are based on Bolaji Abdullahi's "Sweet Sixteen"
Aliya although is born with a silver spoon, but she has no freedom to move around meet new people unlike other persons. This signals to the...
A. criticism of strict parenting
B. irony of life
C. essence of a child's exposure
D. expectations of wealthy parents
Correct Answer: Option B
Explanation
Aliya at age 12 envy of the girls hawking on the street and their freedom to move about as compared to her restriction to move about, eventhough she born into a comfortable home, significantly indicates the irony of life i.e no one has it all.
27. Questions below are based on Bolaji Abdullahi's "Sweet Sixteen"
It may be argued that Chapter Two is titled, "The Drive" particularly because...?
A. of the social disparity between the rich and the poor which is unlikely to end
B. Aliya's father drove her home from the boarding house
C. it indicates the realities and experiences shared during Mr Bello's drive with Aliya
D. it was the best atmosphere for Mr Bello to scold Aliya for her wrongdoings
Correct Answer: Option C
Explanation
Readers must see through the meanings of words and titles beyond their ordinarily usage where necessary. Aliya's drive home by Mr Bello is relevant not because of the drive but especially because Mr Bello used the opportunity of the informal atmosphere to educate his daughter about sexual maturity and the realities of life pictured by the hawking girls and their aspiration to be great in life.
28. Questions below are based on Bolaji Abdullahi's "Sweet Sixteen"
The fact that Aliya wanted to be a pilot, then a musician, a songwriter, doctor and later a lawyer points to the
A. need for parents to choose a befitting career for their children
B. reason that only passion can define one's career
C. indecision that comes with choosing a career at a tender age
D. need for schools to make their syllabus career based
Correct Answer: Option C
Explanation
The youthfulness and ambition as well as confusion that comes with choosing a career is evident at every child's tender age. Parents should only guide their children as to the choice of their career based on passion and not on prospects of the course or career only.
29. Questions below are based on Bolaji Abdullahi's "Sweet Sixteen"
"The Gandhi Test" indicates how
A. stubborn people act without thinking of public perception
B. one should act when it comes to choosing a career
C. a child should make wise decisions mindless of popular thinking
D. a person can make morally right decisions
Correct Answer: Option D
Explanation
Test is that 'you can tell if what you're doing is good or bad, if you want other people to know about it' which means that one should act and be mindful that people are watching.
30. Questions below are based on Bolaji Abdullahi's "Sweet Sixteen"
Bobo proved Mr Bello's advice on infatuation as right when he
A. presented a gift to Aliya
B. flirts with other girls
C. eventually left for Ireland without saying a word to Aliya
D. proclaimed his love for Aliya
Correct Answer: Option C
Explanation
The fact that Bobo later travelled to Ireland without even informing Aliya finally and undoubtedly cements Mr Bello's advice that his love for her was temporary.
31.Questions below are based on Bolaji Abdullahi's "Sweet Sixteen"
The writer tried to point out religious intolerance in his book, by
A. discussing how the society believes certain religion is better than others
B. using one of Aliya's classmates to condemn her religion
C. demonstrating how the religious institutions forcefully impose their beliefs on the people
D. painting Islam as a more righteous religion that others
Correct Answer: Option B
Explanation
The condemnation of Aliya and some of her Muslim friends to hell because they are non-christians and murderers by one of Aliya's classmates is indicative of religious intolerance.
32. Questions below are based on Bolaji Abdullahi's "Sweet Sixteen"
... is quick to anger and doesn't hide it when she is
A. Aliyu
B. Mrs Bello
C. Mr Bello
D. Bobo
Correct Answer: Option B
Explanation
Mrs Bello doesn't hide her anger whenever she is, she outter speaks her mind on the issue. Although she may not agree with her husband on something, she supports him however.
33.Questions below are based on Bolaji Abdullahi's "Sweet Sixteen"
Aliya's choice of wanting to study medicine ...
A. simply reflects her childishness
B. indicates her affection for humanity
C. is born out of the prospects of the course
D. is primarily because of her father
Correct Answer: Option B
Explanation
Aliya's interest in medicine was just so that she could help asthmatic children in the nearest future by donating inhalers to schools.
34. Questions below are based on Bolaji Abdullahi's "Sweet Sixteen"
Mr Bello's best advice to Aliya on dating is that
A. gifting doesn't mean true affection
B. dating can be so distracting
C. she should wait for the right time
D. she should never be committed to anyone
Correct Answer: Option C
Explanation
Seeing as dating is a challenging adventure even for adults, Aliya is advised to thread softly.
35. He was both a writer and a politician, but he was better ........ a singer
A. As if
B. Like
C. As
D. to be
Correct Answer: Option C
Explanation
The preposition "as" is the most suitable answer here to govern the noun phrase "a singer".
36. Vacancies in the company will be notified by .....
A. Bulletin
B. Publication
C. Publicity
D. advertisement
Correct Answer: Option C
Explanation
Apparently, advertisement is one the most viable means by which a company could publicize its vacancy news among others.
37. The driver was short of petrol, so he ........ down the road with the engine switched off
A. glided
B. coasted
C. wheeled
D. taxied
Correct Answer: Option A
Explanation
To 'glide' means to move easily and effortlessly without stopping or making noise.
38. He started his career as an ........ teacher
A. auxilary
B. auxilliary
C. auxiliary
D. auxillary
Correct Answer: Option C
Explanation
Auxiliary being an adjective to the noun "teacher" indicates providing supplementary or extra help, support or assistance.
39. His many years of success in legal practise ........ didn't come out without challenges
A. Indeed
B. But
C. in spite of all
D. However
Correct Answer: Option D
Explanation
However is used when trying to include a new point, or buttress an old one with a comparison.
40.Jide couldn't have said that. This means that Jide
A. ought not say that
B. will not say that
C. it's not likely jide said it
D. Jide didn't say it
Correct Answer: Option C
Explanation
"Couldn't have" here indicates the past impossibility of the fact that Jide said it is at all i.e it is untrue or rather unlikely for Jide to have said it.
41. Bolu shall be the M.C. This means that
A. Bolu may be the M.C
B. no one else will be the M.C
C. later in life, Bolu will become an M.C
D. Bolu may not be the M.C
Correct Answer: Option B
Explanation
The usage of the word "shall" shows compulsion and creates an impression as to the inevitability of Bolu acting as the Compere or Master of Ceremonies (M.C).
42. Bridget denied that she wasn't there. This means that
A. She confessed that she wasn't there
B. She owned up not to be there
C. She maintained she was there
D. She maintained she wasn't there
Correct Answer: Option C
Explanation
First, to deny is to say that something is not true. Therefore, Bridget couldn't have said it is untrue (deny) that she wasn't there, which means she was actually there and she refuses to admit otherwise.
43. Hadn't it rained, it wouldn't have been so bad
A. It was so bad because it didn't rain
B. it rained and so it wasn't bad
C. it wasn't bad because it rained
D. it rained and that made it so bad
Correct Answer: Option D
Explanation
The usage of the anomalous verb 'had' alongside with the negatives; 'not' and that in 'wouldn't' means that, it actually rained and that didn't make things good or go as it would have been preferred.
44. If he had spoken up, he wouldn't have been given. This means that
A. he spoke up and was given
B. he wasn't given because he spoke up
C. he didn't speak up and wasn't given
D. he was given because he didn't speak up
Correct Answer: Option D
Explanation
The implication of the entire statement is that, the speaker or person didn't speak up and so he was given...(an Award or a Microphone or whatever as the case maybe).
45 Choose the one opposite in meaning to the word(s) in underlined.
The police officer looks
pudgy
A. tall and lean
B. short and slim
C. short and fat
D. tall and fat
Correct Answer: Option A
Explanation
Pudgy means short and fat or thick
46. Choose the one opposite in meaning to the word(s) in underlined.
After the wedding, the wife became
anorexic
A. obese
B. melancholic
C. excited
D. skinny
Correct Answer: Option A
Explanation
To be anorexic means to have an eating disorder resulting to an abnormally low body weight. Consequently, the direct opposite herein, is to be obese or fat.
47. Choose the one opposite in meaning to the word(s) in underlined.
Procrastination
is the enemy of progress
A. acceleration
B. laziness
C. hardwork
D. tiredness
Correct Answer: Option A
Explanation
When someone doesn't procrastinate or postpone things unnecessarily for example out of laziness, then he or she accelerates the pace of the work required.
48. Choose the one opposite in meaning to the word(s) in underlined.
Chief Money-Miss-Road is a
sitting duck
A. vulnerable
B. invincible
C. lazy
D. quick-witted
Correct Answer: Option B
Explanation
Invincible is the correct answer. To be a sitting duck means to be without any form of protection against an attack from an enemy or from danger.
49. Choose the one opposite in meaning to the word(s) in underlined.
I abhor a
traitor
A. fallacious person
B. reveler of secrets
C. progressive element
D. keeper of secrets
Correct Answer: Option D
Explanation
Traitor is a person who betrays someone or something, such as a friend, cause, or principle.
50. Choose the one nearest in meaning to the word(s) in bracket
Okibe was rusticated for his [derogatory] remark about the principal
A. complimentary
B. unsavoury
C. unwarranted
D. lack luster
Correct Answer: Option B
Explanation
Unsavoury means unpleasant or morally offensive, the most suitable synonym for derogatory in this regard.
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