2025 MID TERM TEST ON ENGLISH LANGUAGE —SSS 1

Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions that follows.

The rate at which people die or are injured in road traffic accidents is quite alarming. Almost every day the media reports stories of road traffic accidents that cause loss of lives or inflict temporary or permanent injuries. The primary concern is how we can take precautions against these injuries. Road traffic accidents are great crowd pullers as everyone wants to stop and have a look. The UNIVERSAL reaction of eyewitnesses is panic as they rush to the scene and stand there looking in dismay. However, the three most useful things you can do if you are at the scene of a road traffic accident are to assist in the rescue of trapped victims; to render first aid treatment to victims and to help in CONVEYING injured people to the nearest hospital. ROAD TRAFFIC ACCIDENT have a great potential for causing injury to the human body. Accidents involving cars can cause some serious problems as the wreckage of the car may trap some people inside. The high VELOCITY at which a motor vehicle is traveling, the sudden deceleration on impact and the hard rigid nature of the motor-car body, all contribute to increase the potentials of injury. One can now reason why the use of seat belt is very necessary. These belts if fastened properly, reduce the effects of impact. The motor risk-ladden road traffic accidents are those which involve motorcyclists as they do not have a solid motor-car body to protect them from the direct impact of an oncoming vehicle on the road. Road traffic accidents involving motorcyclists are the cause of high MORTALITY as the human skull is often fractured on impact with the hard surface of the road. This, the need for crash helmet cannot be over emphasised. If the road accident results in a fire, then this can be disastrous as the fire will prevent rescuers from coming near, this resulting in the quick DEMISE of the victims from burns. This is why every car driver must possess a fire extinguisher in his vehicle. This little device will save lives in some situations.

QUESTIONS

1. According to the writer, what do eye- witnesses usually do as accident occurs?

2. State the two most common road traffic accidents in the passage.

3. Why are motor cyclists more at risk when accident occurs?

4. Mention two factors that can increase injuries during accidents

5. What three things does the writer suggest that eye- witnesses should do if they are at a road accident scene?

6.Replace each of the following words with another word or phrase as used in the passage.

a) universal

b) conveying

c) velocity

d) mortality

e) demise

OBJECTIVES

Complete each of the following sentences with the most appropriate of the options

1. The first was ------- expensive to buy from the supermarket

2. I was seriously disappointed when the ------ between the two teams ended in a goalless draw

3. Wherever the leader went, people struggled to catch a ------ of him.

4. Mrs Okolo -------- in the school since 1975.

5. ------- the medicine, he told his daughter to take it according to the doctor's prescription

6. The thief ran -------- luck when the police man running after him caught up with him and knocked him down

Choose the option nearest in meaning to the capitalized word or phrase.

7. Since his father's death, Osita has not been able to COPE WITH THE TASK of a family head.

8. Bankole was a man GIVEN TO much wine

9. He lost his voice MOMENTARILY.

10. The ceiling of my bedroom fell in and KNOCKED ME OUT.