Question 24
Read this passage carefully and the answer the questions that follow
There are always a hustle and bustle of people in a typical city, especially a closing period when shops and offices were closing and workers were hurrying home, some in their private cars, others trying to catch a commercial vehicle, while others who couldn't stand the rush to enter a bus or a cab jump on motorcycles popularly known as Okada. It was at the pick of that rush hour that oshoke arrived in Lagos. Oshoke has never seen so many people on the streets or so many vehicles on the road and so when he dropped at the popular Yaba bus-stop, he felt suddenly lost like a man lifted from the ground without any warning or explanation. Another observation that stupefied him was not just the numbers of motor-cycles that move like a swarm of ants, but the way each rider appears to be oblivious of any other vehicle or human being around them, posing a great danger to life. In his stupor, somebody tapped his shoulder and all of a sudden, he left empty, the way a young woman feels when her skirt unexpectedly falls in the middle of a busy street. But he managed to turn to meet the hard cold eyes of a man glaring at him. 'what is the problem?' the voice reminded him of a lions roar. As oshoke later admitted it was a perfect with which to wake a dead man. Oshoke was later to learn from the stranger that the taxis had the worst drivers even though drivers generally in the cities, see every other driver as a rival on the road - an enemy to be conquered. One minute they will be overtaking other cars, the next stopping in the middle of the road to pick up fares without any signal to other drivers or road users of their intentions. Pedestrians seemed always in danger of their lives as they tried to run across the road whenever there was a lull in the traffic.
There are always a hustle and bustle of people in a typical city, especially a closing period when shops and offices were closing and workers were hurrying home, some in their private cars, others trying to catch a commercial vehicle, while others who couldn't stand the rush to enter a bus or a cab jump on motorcycles popularly known as Okada. It was at the pick of that rush hour that oshoke arrived in Lagos. Oshoke has never seen so many people on the streets or so many vehicles on the road and so when he dropped at the popular Yaba bus-stop, he felt suddenly lost like a man lifted from the ground without any warning or explanation. Another observation that stupefied him was not just the numbers of motor-cycles that move like a swarm of ants, but the way each rider appears to be oblivious of any other vehicle or human being around them, posing a great danger to life. In his stupor, somebody tapped his shoulder and all of a sudden, he left empty, the way a young woman feels when her skirt unexpectedly falls in the middle of a busy street. But he managed to turn to meet the hard cold eyes of a man glaring at him. 'what is the problem?' the voice reminded him of a lions roar. As oshoke later admitted it was a perfect with which to wake a dead man. Oshoke was later to learn from the stranger that the taxis had the worst drivers even though drivers generally in the cities, see every other driver as a rival on the road - an enemy to be conquered. One minute they will be overtaking other cars, the next stopping in the middle of the road to pick up fares without any signal to other drivers or road users of their intentions. Pedestrians seemed always in danger of their lives as they tried to run across the road whenever there was a lull in the traffic.
how did oshoke feel as he arrived in Lagos
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