Find the verbs in the following account.
YOUR EYESIGHT--NATURE'S MIRACLE
A.- Your eye is a masterpiece of fine workmanship.
- Like a
motion-picture camera,
your eye takes a series of pictures, ten exposures a second, 36,000 an
hour.
- In a
lifetime it takes billions of snapshots with only one film.
- It
blends these still
snapshots rapidly.
- Like a movie camera, the eye gives the impression of movement.
- Actually the eye switches on and off constantly.
- Half your daylight hours you
live
in complete darkness.
- Your mind simply disregards the blank intervals.
- Like an expensive camera, your eyes have shutters, lenses, filters, and focusing
devices.
- The cornea acts as a protective covering for the eye.
B.- The eyelids,
with the help of the tear glands, clean the cornea constantly.
The iris
is the shutter.- An automatic light meter
controls the shutter opening.
- In very bright light the
opening is very tiny.
- At night the shutter
opens wide.
- The lens too is remarkably
adaptable.
- It
acts as a color filter.
- 8. It
filters out certain colors at the extremes of the spectrum.
- In later years we
see fewer
blues and violets.
- The cells of all parts of the eye are remarkably efficient and
highly specialized.