Year : 
2006
Title : 
English Language
Exam : 
JAMB Exam

Paper 1 | Objectives

21 - 30 of 100 Questions

# Question Ans

Choose the appropriate stress pattern from the option. The syllables are written in capital letters.

21.

Genealogy?

A. geneaLOGY

B. geneALOGY

C. geNEalogy

D. GEnealogy

B

22.

Catholicism?

A. caTHOlicism

B. catholiCIsm

C. CAtholicism

D. cathoLIcism

A

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

23.

A. ability

B. quadruplicate

C. registration

D. revivalist

C

24.

A. competent

B. represent

C. syllables

D. quality

B

Choose the option that has the same stress as the given word.

25.

Apparent?

A. arrested

B. telephone

C. paragraph

D. appetite

A

26.

Dovetail?

A. proviso

B. simplicity

C. jargon

D. psychiatry

C

Choose the option that has the same stress on the first syllable.

27.

A. insult (noun)

B. prepare

C. provoke

D. pronounce

A

28.

A. frequent (verb)

B. mature

C. madam

D. convict (verb)

Detailed Solution

Options A, B, and D are stressed on the second syllable except for option C which has its stress on the first syllable

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

29.

In our college, the regulations concerning resits are grey area?

A. The regulation have just been revised

B. The regulation have often ignored

C. The regulations are perfectly clear

D. The regulations are very clear

Detailed Solution

grey area. A concept or topic that is not clearly defined or that exists somewhere between two extreme positions. Indeterminate territory, undefined position, neither here nor there. For example, There's a large gray area between what is legal and what is not. This term, which uses gray in the sense of “neither black nor white” (
30.

Ogiri takes after his father, he fawns upon anyone with influence.

A. Like his father, Ogiri likes to flatter people with influence in society

B. Like his father, Ogiri hates influential people

C. Ogiri, who always follows his father, tries to act an influential man

D. Ogiri, who looks like his father, follows rich and influential people about

A

Choose the appropriate stress pattern from the option. The syllables are written in capital letters.

21.

Genealogy?

A. geneaLOGY

B. geneALOGY

C. geNEalogy

D. GEnealogy

B

22.

Catholicism?

A. caTHOlicism

B. catholiCIsm

C. CAtholicism

D. cathoLIcism

A

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

23.

A. ability

B. quadruplicate

C. registration

D. revivalist

C

24.

A. competent

B. represent

C. syllables

D. quality

B

Choose the option that has the same stress as the given word.

25.

Apparent?

A. arrested

B. telephone

C. paragraph

D. appetite

A

26.

Dovetail?

A. proviso

B. simplicity

C. jargon

D. psychiatry

C

Choose the option that has the same stress on the first syllable.

27.

A. insult (noun)

B. prepare

C. provoke

D. pronounce

A

28.

A. frequent (verb)

B. mature

C. madam

D. convict (verb)

Detailed Solution

Options A, B, and D are stressed on the second syllable except for option C which has its stress on the first syllable

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

29.

In our college, the regulations concerning resits are grey area?

A. The regulation have just been revised

B. The regulation have often ignored

C. The regulations are perfectly clear

D. The regulations are very clear

Detailed Solution

grey area. A concept or topic that is not clearly defined or that exists somewhere between two extreme positions. Indeterminate territory, undefined position, neither here nor there. For example, There's a large gray area between what is legal and what is not. This term, which uses gray in the sense of “neither black nor white” (
30.

Ogiri takes after his father, he fawns upon anyone with influence.

A. Like his father, Ogiri likes to flatter people with influence in society

B. Like his father, Ogiri hates influential people

C. Ogiri, who always follows his father, tries to act an influential man

D. Ogiri, who looks like his father, follows rich and influential people about

A