Example of Passage 2

Luckily, I had been wearing my seatbelt

The snowstorm in our city last week was not a large one, but it caused many accidents. The snow started to come down in the late afternoon. I saw it through the window of the office building where I work as a secretary. It had been snowing for an hour when I started to drive home.

The cars had been driving slowly because of the dangerous roads. It was slippery snow that froze when it hit the roads. Earlier, the snow had been melting, but by evening it was staying on the roads. Police cars had been checking the traffic regularly.

I had been driving for twenty minutes when the accidents happened. My heater had not been working, and the snow had been freezing on my window. So, I couldn’t see well. I had been stopping to clean my window every few minutes. I had just started the car again when my tires started to slip. The car slipped onto the side of the road. When it hit the hill, it turned over and stopped.

I felt and looked to see if I was hurt, but I wasn’t. I had been driving quite slowly, and luckily I had been wearing my seatbelt. It was very quite, with just the sounds of music and falling snow; I had been playing the radio. Soon the police came to help me, and I was able to reach home in another hour.

dangerous-adjektiva
berbahaya	dangerous, harmful, hazardous, treacherous, perilous, noxious
membahayakan	dangerous, harmful, endangering, perilous, unsafe, vital
gawat	serious, critical, grave, bad, acute, dangerous

quite-adverbia
agak	rather, somewhat, slightly, kind of, quite, some
sungguh	really, indeed, quite, actually, remarkably, eminently
betul	really, quite, very, absolutely, in earnest, aright
sama sekali	at all, completely, absolutely, altogether, totally, quite
belaka	merely, purely, quite, very