JAMB ENGLISH LANGUAGE PAST QUESTIONS

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.

One major source of worry about the mass media is from?

Choose the option that has the same consonant sound as the one represented by the letter(s) underlined.

chateau

Choose the option nearest to the statement

My brother's drunkenness often got on my nerves. This means

Choose the option to which the given sentence relates

Aderonke STATED she had a right to her privacy

Choose the best option that best completes the gap(s)

_____a good boy, he was given a prize

The government has decided to freeze student's grants. This means that government intends to

Choose the option opposite in meaning to the word(s) or phrase in italics. Our principal took exception to the ignoble role the teacher played in the matter

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.

A suitable title for the above passage can be:

Choose the word(s) or phrase(s) which best fill(s) the gap. I would have been surprised if you ____________ the orange

Choose the word(s) or phrase(s) which best fill(s) the gap. The sea wave continue to ____________ the cliff on the west coast constantly

Choose the option that has a different stress pattern from the others. Choose the option that has different stress pattern from the others.

Choose the option that has a different stress pattern from the others. Choose the option that has different stress pattern from the others.

Choose the option nearest in meaning to the word or phrase in italics

Aisha impelled to the party

Choose the word that is most nearly opposite in the meaning to the underlined word or group of words that will fill in the sentence.

At first we found life in the town very exciting but soon it became rather _______

Choose the word that has the same consonant sound as the one in bracket

Non[ch]alant

Choose the option opposite in meaning to the word(s) or phrase in italics. The Flying Eagles put up a plucky defence against their opponents

He started his career as an ........ teacher

Tayo opted to remain in Nigeria because he had a duty to serve his

Choose the option opposite in meaning to the word(s) or phrase in italics. He is loved for his altruism

Select the option that best explain the information conveyed in the sentence

Advising Olu to break his bad habit is like knocking your head against a brick wall

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...

Choose the word that has the same consonant sound as the one in bracket;

Smoo[th]

From the options, choose the word nearest in meaning to the underline word

By working hard, Benjamin outshone his elder brother instead of being ________

Choose the option that has the same consonant as the one represented by the letter(s) underlined

who

Select the option that best explain the information conveyed in the sentence

The letter was being written by the principal

The driver was short of petrol, so he ........ down the road with the engine switched off

Choose the word that has a different stress pattern

Choose the word with the same vowel sound as the one in bracket

Orthop[ae]dic

Choose the option opposite in meaning to the word(s) or phrase in italics. The governor's visit is an unprecedented event in the history of the social club

Choose the best option that best completes the gap(s)

The crops the farmer planted will be ____ in three months time.

Choose the most appropriate stress pattern from the options below

Constitution

Choose the option that has the same consonant sound as the one represented by the letter(s) underlined.

thatch

His many years of success in legal practise.... didn't come out without challenges

Choose the most appropriate stress pattern from the options. The stressed are written in capital letters

Judiciary

Vacancies in the company will be notified by .....

Fill in the Gap

The press will no longer be free when the new government starts to — newspapers

Choose the word that has a different stress pattern

Select the option that best explain the information conveyed in the sentence

The painting was beautifully faked

Choose the option that has the same consonant as the one represented by the letter(s) underlined

clash

Choose the option opposite in meaning to the word(s) or phrase in italics. He is notorious for his drunkenness

His many years of success in legal practise ........ didn't come out without challenges

Choose the option to which the given sentence relates

My Boss has an amiable DISPOSITION

Choose the word that best completes the following sentence.

I really like working in that office: I find the — very friendly

In each of the questions, the word in capital letters has the emphatic stress, Choose the option to which the given sentence relates.

The traditional chief NARRATED the story to the children

Choose the option nearest in meaning to the word or phrase in italics

This event was a watershed in the company

choose the option that best completes the gap(s).

I am not sure that all _____ well with John.

In the Novel "Independence" Tayo wrote a biography of ______?

Choose the most appropriate stress pattern from the options.

The stressed are written in capital letters
departmental

Choose the one nearest in meaning to the word(s) in bracket

There are still [virtous] women in our society today

Choose the word that has the same consonant sound as the one in bracket

Ask[ed]

In the book "Independence" Wearing woolens, lamb cardigans, extra socks, gloves and Balliol scarf signified that Tayo was _______?

Suleiman's reason for becoming a Muslim in the novel is because Islam brings sense of ______?

choose the option opposite in meaning to the word(s) in italics. The manager commended the players for the narrow victory.

Choose the option that best explains the information conveyed in the sentence. The organization is constantly in a state of flux

Choose the option that best explains the information conveyed in the sentence. The man reasoned that there ought to be a limit to sycophancy

He was both a writer and a politician, but he was better ........ a singer

Choose the option that has the same consonant sound as the one represented by the letter(s) underlined.

Joint

From the options given, Choose the option that is opposite in meaning to the underlined word.

This house which was sealed off years ago has now been —

Mr Collins does not allow his name to be published in connection with the philanthropy because he _____ publicity

choose the best option that best completes the gap(s)

Snakes and ladders always______me happy these days