Explanation

. LOOK BEFORE YOU LEAP

Maria Kobina was the first daughter of her parents. She was loved by her parents who did everything to keep her happy by giving her all she demanded. Her parents relied on her to lead other children in the family with good examples to follow.

Maria was sent to school because her parents believed in education. After the completion of her primary education, they sent her to a boarding school. Her parents used to visit her in the school always. They took proper care of her by providing everything she needed so that Maria could face her studies seriously.

In school, Maria had a friend called Julie who came from a very poor family. Julie lacked so many things. Though Julie was an indigent student, she was satisfied with what her parents could provide for her. In the first three years of Maria's stay in school, Julie was her only intimate friend while others were just mere classmates.

When Maria got promoted to SS2, her attitude and outlook changed. She started going to parties with some wayward girls who were her classmates. At one of the parties, she met Festus and they became lovers. Unknown to Maria, Festus was a houseboy to a rich man who entrusted him with all his belongings, including his fleet of cars. Festus always claimed that he was the only son of the rich man and because he always visited Maria in one flashy car or the other, Maria got infatuated with him.

One day, Maria informed Julie, her friend, whom she had almost neglected, about her love affair with Festus. Julie warned her friend against mistaking superficial love for a genuine one. Maria failed to listen to Julie's advice and before long she got pregnant for Festus. When-she told Festus that she was pregnant, it was too late and the pregnancy could not be aborted. Maria kept her pregnancy in secrecy and none of her friends and teachers could detect that she was pregnant because she always tucked out her blouse to conceal the pregnancy.

When the pregnancy was about five months old and both the students and teachers became aware, Maria went to see Festus in his master's house. Let us run away to my parent's home and we will be there until you are delivered of the baby Festus suggested. Maria wondered whether the rich man's house was not the home that Festus was talking about. Do you mean that I should come and stay here in your father's house in the same town where my parents and mates will find me out? Maria asked in confusion In my parents home in a village in Cross River State, Festus replied. It was after Festus' reply that Maria now realised that she had been deceived to believe that Festus was the son of the rich man. She wept bitterly and regretted that she had not looked before leaping.

Correct Answer: B. act according to circumstance

Correct Answer: D. had better get

Correct Answer: B. My daddy’s clock is not quartz.

Correct Answer: B. Jane

Correct Answer: C. young brilliant Nigerian

Explanation

In English, adjectives are usually ordered by quantity, quality, size, age, shape, color, origin, material, and purpose. Therefore, 'young brilliant Nigerian' is the correct order.

Correct Answer: B. meddle in

Correct Answer: B. actually

Correct Answer: D. partly true

Explanation

26 Oluremi Adesina Street Ikeja, Lagos. 19th June, 2000 The Director, Environmental Protect Agency 18 Creek Road Yaba, Lagos. Dear Sir, ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION OF MY AREA

I am writing to formally bring to your attention the environmental pollution of my area which has made life unbearable for the poeple of the place. Cur environment is highly polluted to the extent that breathing has become difficult. The air we breathe in and out is heavily polluted and the community stands the risk of an epidemic outbreak.

Refuse is dumped indiscriminately by the roadside and human feaces and toxic waste are emptied into the nearby stream. As a result of this, the stream which was flowing before is now stagnant, thus becomimg a breeding place for mosquitoes. What further complicates the whole situation is that some illiterate women do go to this stream to fetch water they use for cooking and other domestic chores. Some even drink the water from this stream. This has constituted a health hazard in the area as an epidemic can break out from this unhealthy condition and before we know it, many lives will be lost.

The textile and the iron-smelting companies in our area have further worsened the situation as their furnace emit dark smokes into the air everyday. On every working day, our environment is highly polluted with smoke which makes breathing difficult for us. We only have respite at week-ends when these companies are not working. The toxic water coming out of the textile factory is another source of environmental pollution. Though the toxic water flows into the nearby canal, it leaves behind a greenish stain on the side of the gutter and I know it must be emitting some poisonous gases into the air.

We are prone to a lot of health hazards, to say the least, and we want the government to come to our aid. This is very necessary in order to avert an outbreak of epidemic in the area.

Recently, there were cases of some residents of the area who were taken to the hospital and they were diagnosed to have kidney problems. This is not unconnected with the impure air they breathed in. We would appreciate it if you could use your good offices to put in place a new and modern means of disposing toxic waste in our area. The waste disposal board has to consider our area as a high risk area and treat it as such with utmost urgency.

I would be grateful if you could pay a visit to our community in order to be able to assess the situation and take urgent action to improve this unwholesome situation.

Yours faithfully,

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Olukunle Ebun