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Read the passage given below.The lush beauty of a place is a real feast for the eyes. It never fails to attract us. Here is an account of the magical beauty of nature the panoramic view from the top of Thamarasseri Ghats or Thamarasseri Churam (a hilly highway with 9 hairpin curves from Adivaram to Lakkidi, in Wayanad) towards the Arabian Sea.‘High mountains rise to the left with water glistening on bare black rocks like tears of gladness in the eyes of sorrow; forests stretch away here with gentle slope and easy undulation; far below lie swamps choked with thorny thickets and rank coarse grasses in whose bosoms are stored the streams which water those large stretches of rice fields, here sere and yellow after the sickle of the reaper, there whitening unto harvest or again a vivid green where the second crop matures. Hills everywhere, some arid, red and unfruitful, more covered in the feathery foliage of the Eastern orchards… As the distance grows farther, hill and field all merge into one green plain, and beyond gleams the sea, hard to be discerned from heaven that bends down and meets it. The thought rises from the heart that in such fair and well-ordered beauty, the affairs of this world may perchance appear… so strange, so little comprehendible by us, the dwellers, amid its hills and valleys.1. Discuss the colours mentioned in the passage.2. What gives Thamarasseri its well-ordered beauty?3. Pick out the word pictures found in the passage.

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1. Black rocks, yellow rice fields, whitening into harvest, green crops, red hills, green plain.

2. The high mountains with water glistening on bare black rocks, the forests that stretch with gentle slope and easy undulation, the swamps choked with thorny thickets, the harvested rice fields, the vivid green second crops, the hills, the green plain, and he gleaming sea and the sky that bends down to meet the sea gives Thamarasseri its well ordered beauty.

3. Thorny thickets coarse grasses sere and yellow



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