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English Language (Use of English) Past Questions and Answers

Jamb 2014 English Language (Use of English) Questions

Question 1:
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
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Question 2:
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
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Question 3:
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
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Question 4:
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.
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Question 5:
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.
  • A Hard places are dangerous for the president.
  • B He dreamt that he was abandoned.
  • C He thought that hard places were unsafe.
  • D He had a hard decision to make.
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