2024 - JAMB English Past Questions and Answers - page 2

The passage below has gaps. Immediately after each gap, four options are provided. Choose the most appropriate option for each gap.

In modern mining, there is a network of ---17--- [A. way B. tunnels C. paths D. avenues] and passages, with openings and walls which in the dim light seem very bewildering. Right across the wall at the end of the inky black passage, the ---18--- [A. miners B. toilers C. workers D. foreman] approach. The coal ---19--- [A. front B. slope C. obstacle D. face] is neatly cut ---20--- [A. slit B. gash C. bare D. aperture]. It extends level to a height of rather less than three feet. The rays of the miner's lamp shine on steel roof ---21--- [A. beams B. supports C. spurs D. stays]. Thousands of feet of rock and earth are pressing down on those steel plates and ---22--- [A. props B. wedges C. poles D. stakes], and the miners have to crawl through the small, deep opening in the wall to get to the coal in the mine that we are considering, the ---23--- [A. gash B. hole C. seam D. opening] is nearly four feet thick and is being worked by a combination of ---24--- [A. digging B. manpower C. machinery D. spade] and explosives. A mechanical ---25--- [A. slit B. gash C. knife D. mesh] saws into the coal to a depth of four or five feet, thus separating it from its base. Explosives pushed into holes drilled at intervals in the coal are ---26--- [A. fused B. extinguished C. detonated D. stuck] by remote control and blow the separated section of the coal to pieces.

The passage below has gaps. Immediately after each gap, four options are provided. Choose the most appropriate option for each gap.

In modern mining, there is a network of ---17--- [A. way B. tunnels C. paths D. avenues] and passages, with openings and walls which in the dim light seem very bewildering. Right across the wall at the end of the inky black passage, the ---18--- [A. miners B. toilers C. workers D. foreman] approach. The coal ---19--- [A. front B. slope C. obstacle D. face] is neatly cut ---20--- [A. slit B. gash C. bare D. aperture]. It extends level to a height of rather less than three feet. The rays of the miner's lamp shine on steel roof ---21--- [A. beams B. supports C. spurs D. stays]. Thousands of feet of rock and earth are pressing down on those steel plates and ---22--- [A. props B. wedges C. poles D. stakes], and the miners have to crawl through the small, deep opening in the wall to get to the coal in the mine that we are considering, the ---23--- [A. gash B. hole C. seam D. opening] is nearly four feet thick and is being worked by a combination of ---24--- [A. digging B. manpower C. machinery D. spade] and explosives. A mechanical ---25--- [A. slit B. gash C. knife D. mesh] saws into the coal to a depth of four or five feet, thus separating it from its base. Explosives pushed into holes drilled at intervals in the coal are ---26--- [A. fused B. extinguished C. detonated D. stuck] by remote control and blow the separated section of the coal to pieces.

The passage below has gaps. Immediately after each gap, four options are provided. Choose the most appropriate option for each gap.

In modern mining, there is a network of ---17--- [A. way B. tunnels C. paths D. avenues] and passages, with openings and walls which in the dim light seem very bewildering. Right across the wall at the end of the inky black passage, the ---18--- [A. miners B. toilers C. workers D. foreman] approach. The coal ---19--- [A. front B. slope C. obstacle D. face] is neatly cut ---20--- [A. slit B. gash C. bare D. aperture]. It extends level to a height of rather less than three feet. The rays of the miner's lamp shine on steel roof ---21--- [A. beams B. supports C. spurs D. stays]. Thousands of feet of rock and earth are pressing down on those steel plates and ---22--- [A. props B. wedges C. poles D. stakes], and the miners have to crawl through the small, deep opening in the wall to get to the coal in the mine that we are considering, the ---23--- [A. gash B. hole C. seam D. opening] is nearly four feet thick and is being worked by a combination of ---24--- [A. digging B. manpower C. machinery D. spade] and explosives. A mechanical ---25--- [A. slit B. gash C. knife D. mesh] saws into the coal to a depth of four or five feet, thus separating it from its base. Explosives pushed into holes drilled at intervals in the coal are ---26--- [A. fused B. extinguished C. detonated D. stuck] by remote control and blow the separated section of the coal to pieces.

The passage below has gaps. Immediately after each gap, four options are provided. Choose the most appropriate option for each gap.

In modern mining, there is a network of ---17--- [A. way B. tunnels C. paths D. avenues] and passages, with openings and walls which in the dim light seem very bewildering. Right across the wall at the end of the inky black passage, the ---18--- [A. miners B. toilers C. workers D. foreman] approach. The coal ---19--- [A. front B. slope C. obstacle D. face] is neatly cut ---20--- [A. slit B. gash C. bare D. aperture]. It extends level to a height of rather less than three feet. The rays of the miner's lamp shine on steel roof ---21--- [A. beams B. supports C. spurs D. stays]. Thousands of feet of rock and earth are pressing down on those steel plates and ---22--- [A. props B. wedges C. poles D. stakes], and the miners have to crawl through the small, deep opening in the wall to get to the coal in the mine that we are considering, the ---23--- [A. gash B. hole C. seam D. opening] is nearly four feet thick and is being worked by a combination of ---24--- [A. digging B. manpower C. machinery D. spade] and explosives. A mechanical ---25--- [A. slit B. gash C. knife D. mesh] saws into the coal to a depth of four or five feet, thus separating it from its base. Explosives pushed into holes drilled at intervals in the coal are ---26--- [A. fused B. extinguished C. detonated D. stuck] by remote control and blow the separated section of the coal to pieces.