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Discursive passage
Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions given below:
I have often thought it would be a blessing if each human being was stricken
blind and deal for a few days at some time during his adult life. Darkness would make
him more appreciative of sight, silence would teach him the joy of sound. Now and
then I have tested my seeing friends to discover what they see. Recently I asked a
friend, who had just returned from a long walk in the woods, what she has observed.
"Nothing in particular," she replied.
How was it possible I asked myself to walk for an hour through the woods and
see nothing worthy of note. I, who cannot see find hundreds of things to interest me
through mere touch. I feel the delicate symmetry of leaf. I pass my hands lovingly
about the smooth skin of a silver birch or the rough, shaggy bark of a pice. In spring !
touch the branches of trees hopefully in search of a bud, the first sign of awakening
sture after her winter's sleep. Occasionally if I am fortunate & place my hand gently
on a small tree and feel the happy quiver of a bird in full song
Allises my heart cries out with longing to see all these things. Il can get so
much pleasure from mere touch, how much more beauty must be revealed by sight
And I have imagined what I should must like to see if I were given the toe of my
sye say, just for three days,
I should divide the period into three parts. On the first day, I should want to
see the persple whose kindness and gentleness and companionship have made my lile
worth living First I would like to gaze upon the form of my dear teacher. Mi, Anne
Sullivan Macy she came to see me when I was a chill. She opened the other world
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