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Question 4411

jamb 1980

complete the sentences with the correct options from the list below:
Don't study on the examination day? What did he tell you? He told me .... on the examination day

Ano studying

Bdon't study

Cnot study

Dnot to study

Eto not study

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Question 4412

jamb 1980

complete the sentences with the correct options from the list below:
Could i ring him up? I'd rather you ....

Avisit him

Bvisited him

Cwould visit him

Dvisiting him

Ewill visit him

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Question 4413

jamb 1980

complete the sentences with the correct options from the list below:
He acts .... he were a general manager

Aas

Bif

Cas if

Dso as

Ethat

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Question 4414

jamb 1980

complete the sentences with the correct options from the list below:
Many goods .... tape recorders and cameras find a ready market in every country

Alike

Bsuch a

Csuch as

Dsuch

Eas

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Question 4415

jamb 1980

complete the sentences with the correct options from the list below:
He told me to go on .... till seven

Ato work

Bworked

Cworks

Dworking

Ework

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Question 4416

jamb 1980

complete the sentences with the correct options from the list below:
They said that ....about 20 candidates for the job of a shorthand typist

Athey were

Bit will be

Cthere were

Dit was

Ethere are

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Question 4417

jamb 1980

complete the sentences with the correct options from the list below:
.... listening to the news when i came in

AThere were

BThere was

CIt was

DThere are going to be

EThey were

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Question 4418

jamb 1980

From the options lettered A-D, select the option that best fills the gap(s) in the sentence below:

Must you always .... lies? Why don't you .... the truth for once

Aspeak

Bsay

Ctalk

Dtell

Eutter

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Question 4419

jamb 1980

Choose the best option to fill the gaps in the following sentences:
You should make an ..... to improve the situation

Aeffect

Befficiency

Ceffectiveness

Deffort

Eeffectualness

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Question 4420

jamb 1980

Choose the best option to fill the gaps in the following sentences:
I am afraid you cannot use this telephone; it is ....

Aout of order

Bin order

Cfor order

Dat order

Ewith order

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Question 4421

jamb 1980

Choose the best option to fill the gaps in the following sentences:
You have been absent from classes for four months. How can you .... for the lost time

Amake in

Bmake up

Cmake off

Dmake out

Emake over

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Question 4422

jamb 1980

Choose the best option to fill the gaps in the following sentences:
I am a student and .... Musa. I left for the university, and .... Musa

Awas, does

Bso is, so did

Cso was, so does

Dhe is , he did

Eso he is, so he went

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Question 4423

jamb 1980

Choose the best option to fill the gaps in the following sentences:
I am travelling by the 6:30 train tomorrow morning. Will you .... me ....?

Asee/off

Blook/up

Ctake/down

Dsee/to

Eput/up

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Question 4424

jamb 1980

Choose the best option to fill the gaps in the following sentences:
Why does a flamingo stand on one leg? Because if it lifted the other one, it would ....

Ago down

Blet down

Cfall down

Dcome down

Eget down

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Question 4425

jamb 1980

Choose the best option to fill the gaps in the following sentences:
Oxygen is necessary to life. Nothing can live without it. It was .... a century ago

Ainvented

Bfound out

Cdiscovered

Dlearnt

Eextracted

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Question 4426

jamb 1980

Choose the best option to fill the gaps in the following sentences:
The method .... does not give the expected results.

Ayou recommended

Byou visited

Cyou told

Dyou sent me

Eyou wanted

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Question 4427

jamb 1980

Choose the best option to fill the gaps in the following sentences:
The prices .... are too high for us

Ayou lent me

Byou quoted

Cyou attended

Dyou gave me

Eyou want to buy

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Question 4428

jamb 1980

Choose the word or phrase closest in meaning to the underlined word:
Colossal means

Aa greek column

Bgigantic

Csomething which has lost too much fluid

Da calamity

Ethe sale of colos

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Question 4429

jamb 1980

Choose the word or phrase closest in meaning to the underlined word:
Don't eat just any innocuous looking mushroom you see around

Aharmful

Bharmless

Cinnocent

Dimmunized

Econspicuous

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Question 4430

jamb 1980

Choose the word or phrase closest in meaning to the underlined word:
The bible's prodigal son became quite wealth eventually

Aprestigious

Bphlegmatic

Cerrant

Dpecuniary

Eextravagant

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