When driving in a construction zone:
- Slightly increase your speed.
- Expect the unexpected. ✓
- Expect construction workers to yield to motorists.
Answer: B. Expect the unexpected.
When driving in a construction zone, expect the unexpected.
Why this is the answer
The handbook's work-zone instructions are built around anticipating things you cannot see yet. It says to slow down, leave extra space, expect sudden slowing or stopping, watch for lane changes, and avoid distractions. It also tells you to prepare to slow or stop for highway equipment and to obey signs or instructions from workers such as flaggers. That is exactly what "expect the unexpected" means here: treat the zone as a place where traffic can change without much warning. Nothing in the passage says to speed up or that workers must yield.
Why the other answers are wrong
- A. Slightly increase your speed. — Speeding up works against the handbook's instruction to slow down and to be ready for sudden slowing or stopping in a work zone.
- C. Expect construction workers to yield to motorists. — The handbook says to obey signs and instructions from workers such as flaggers, so you cannot assume construction workers will yield to motorists.
Remember it
Use cones and flaggers as reminders to slow down and stay ready to stop.