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WAEC 2015
WASSCE ENGLISH
COMPREHENSION PASSAGE I
Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions on it.
The mansion by the roadside in my village reminds me of a similar site in the state capital, three decades ago. Standing conspicuously by the highway in the heart of the city, the matching post it bold challenge to road users. It belonged to chief Koko who was regarded as untouchable in his community. Nobody dared step on his toes. Motorists had learned to steer clear of it. It was generally assumed that moving close to it could cost one's life.
Then came a governor who decided to widen all the major roles in the capital city. He stressed that this will involve the demolition of buildings that fell within 20 meters from the center of the road. However, although the governor also stressed that compensations will be paid, Chief Koko was not impressed. He made it clear that nothing should tamper with his mansion, warning that whoever defied him risked dire consequences.
Not long after the governor's official proclamation, come on newspaper reporters had a few days speculating on the unprecedented confrontation with chief. With time, news filtered out that he has set it up whoever dating will certainly end up where others like them had gone. The message was clear - defiance meant death! so, reporters were pleading for a new route to circumvent the mansion. However, the governor made it clear that there will be no retreat.
Before long, work started on the project. One of the first casualties what's a post office that was just submitted within the specified distance. It was cut too. Soon, the frontage of his school nearby also followed. But it was assumed that things would be different with their mansion whose owner tolerated no effrontery. day by day commander project moved closer to the machine, with the heavy machine leveling one structure after another. Then, when it was clear that the mansion was next in line, the driver of the bulldozer requested to go and leave. This go to the governor who ordered the driver to face do his duty. He sent a missile missiles to the governor to spare his life since his children were still very young.
The following morning people got a shocker! The governor himself showed up at the site and asked for the key of the bulldozer, ready to assume the driver’s seat. The driver, saving the possible consequence cheerfully climbed up and pleaded that the governor should please care for his children after his demise. the governor announced that if anything was to happen he, not the driver, would be the target.
So, the driver got to work that much collapsed like a pack of cards. Press photographers went to town with their cameras, hoping to capture chief cuckoo inaction. But nothing unusual happened, and soon the whole structure became a rubble.
The aftermath? Everybody thought either or put mail will soon belong to the great beyond. But this much I know: that the governor is still around; and so is the driver.
Questions
(a) What opinion did people have of Chief Koko?
(b) What does the expression, unprecedented confrontation tells us about the governor?
(c) Why was it necessary to demolish buildings?
(d) When the driver said that his children were still very young, what did he imply?
(e) …people got a shocker. Why was the governor's action a shocker?
(f) What did people expect you Coco to do after the demolition of his mansion?
(g) Not long after the governor's official proclamation...
i) What grammatical name is given to this expression as it is used in the passage?
ii) What is its function?
(h) Quote a simile used in the sixth paragraph of the passage.
(i) For each of the following words, find another word or group of words or phrase which means the same as the word or group of words and can replace it in the passage:
i.) assumed
ii.) retreat
iii.) specified
iv.) showed up
v.) collapsed.
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