Que : 1. Read the following extract and complete the summary by writing words/phrases in the blanks :

I saw my mother, besides me,

Doze, open mouthed, her face ashen

that like a corpse and realised

with pain that she was as old as

She looked but soon put that

thought away and looked out.

Summary :

The poet was ............... to Cochin last Friday along with her .............. She noticed her mother ................. open mouthed, besides her. Her mother was pale like a ................... . Her looks grieved the poet. She tried to ................. the scene by ................ out of the window.

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