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Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow.Far far from gusty waves these children’s faces. Like rootless weeds, the hair torn around their pallor The tall girl with her weighed-down head. The paper-seeming boy, with rat’s eyes.(a) What are the children compared to? (b) Why do you think the tall girl is sitting with a weighed down head? (c) Give two phrases which tell us that the children are under-nourished. (d) What is the condition of the boy?

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(a) The children are compared to rootless weeds’. 

(b) The girl is sitting with a weighed down head probably because she is depressed due to abject poverty or family tussles. 

(c) The phrases are ‘like rootless weeds, and ‘the paper-seeming boy with rat’s eyes’. 

(d) The boy sitting in the classroom is as thin as paper, due to malnutrition. He has bulging eyes like that of a rat.



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