Comprehension
ud the following passage carefully and answer the questions on it.
w to remember my first day at Freedom University for a long time. On arrival on campus, I expected to
mct by some stale students (as was the practice in my secondary school) but every student around was
like myself and from afar off i could see a sea of heads). I asked the way to Grant Hall but no one could
me Tasked a number of other questions about issues that bothered me, such as where and how to pay
he focs, the way to the dining hall and so on, but no help was forthcoming
So in the midst of so many people I am all alone, 'I mused to myself. The prospect was not in the least
accrful and all the elation I had felt at gaining entry into a renowned university at sixteen began to
near Then as if propelled by an unknown benevolent force, I walked a little bit down the corridor in
direction of a notice board at which some ten young men and women were peering. For want of
Whing to do, I decided to stop and look at the noticeboard. Alas! I had opened the key to all the riddles
had dribbled me since I set foot on campus that morning. On the board there was a big campus map in
was able to locate Grant Hall and other places of interest. There were details of the various
lined up for the three days of orientation for freshmen and a comprehensive list of those offered
on into various courses, How blissfull felt to see the light of knowledge, having been wallowing in
darkness ol'ignorance. Even then I was not able to escape the thought that though I could not be sure
of the responsibility for the darkness was mine, the fact that something had not been done to
oftention to that apocalypse of a noticeboard had contributed clearly to my initial predicament. All
withstandi I learnt from that incident an indelible lesson which was to stand me in very good
throughout my stay in the university, namely, the importance of reading noticeboards and
handbills if one is to be well informed about places and events in the university.
M 1988. Adapted