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JAMB Use of English practice questions (CBT)
Fifteen objective questions in the style of the JAMB UTME Use of English CBT: synonyms, antonyms, concord, idioms, tenses, spelling, stress, vowel and consonant sounds, and interpretation.
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Timed mode
15 questions in 10 minutes, one question at a time. Your answers are marked when you submit or when the time runs out.
الموضوع: Synonyms
1. Choose the option nearest in meaning to the word in capitals: The manager's explanation was LUCID.
الحل
A. clear
- Lucid means easy to understand.
- The nearest meaning is clear.
الموضوع: Antonyms
2. Choose the option opposite in meaning to the word in capitals: The new policy was widely COMMENDED.
الحل
D. criticised
- Commended means praised.
- The opposite is criticised.
الموضوع: Concord
3. Neither the teacher nor the students ___ in the hall.
الحل
C. were
- With neither ... nor, the verb agrees with the nearer subject.
- The nearer subject, students, is plural, so the verb is were.
الموضوع: Concord
4. Each of the boys ___ given a book.
الحل
B. was
- Each is singular, even when followed by of the boys.
- The singular verb was is correct.
الموضوع: Idioms
5. Choose the meaning of the idiom: After years of quarrelling, the two families decided to bury the hatchet.
الحل
A. make peace
- To bury the hatchet means to stop quarrelling and become friends again.
الموضوع: Prepositions
6. She is very good ___ mathematics.
الحل
D. at
- The fixed expression is good at a subject or activity.
الموضوع: Tenses
7. By the time we arrived at the cinema, the film ___.
الحل
C. had started
- Two past actions: the film started before we arrived.
- The earlier past action takes the past perfect: had started.
الموضوع: Question tags
8. You are coming with us, ___?
الحل
B. aren't you
- A positive statement takes a negative tag with the same auxiliary verb.
- The auxiliary is are, so the tag is aren't you.
الموضوع: Spelling
9. Choose the correctly spelt word.
الحل
A. accommodation
- Accommodation has a double c and a double m: ac-com-mo-da-tion.
الموضوع: Stress
10. Which word is stressed on the second syllable?
الحل
D. begin
- be-GIN is stressed on the second syllable.
- TA-ble, WA-ter and HAP-py are stressed on the first.
الموضوع: Vowels
11. Which word has the same vowel sound as the one in SEAT?
الحل
C. key
- Seat has the long vowel /iː/.
- Key has the same sound; sit, set and sat have short vowels.
الموضوع: Consonants
12. In which word is the letter combination ch pronounced /ʃ/, as in shoe?
الحل
B. machine
- In machine, ch comes from French and is pronounced /ʃ/.
- In chair, church and cheap it is /tʃ/.
الموضوع: Interpretation
13. Choose the best interpretation: Tunde has a sweet tooth.
الحل
A. Tunde likes sugary food
- To have a sweet tooth means to enjoy eating sweet things.
الموضوع: Word classes
14. In the sentence 'She sang beautifully at the wedding', the word beautifully is ___.
الحل
D. an adverb
- Beautifully tells us how she sang, so it modifies the verb.
- Words that modify verbs are adverbs.
الموضوع: Vocabulary
15. After a long debate, the committee reached a ___ on the matter.
الحل
C. consensus
- A consensus is a general agreement.
- A census is a count of people, and a conscience is a sense of right and wrong.