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Mussoorie is around 250 miles north Delhi. (a) ______ ______ ______
It is one of most popular hill stations of (b) ______ ______ ______

India. In fact, it is the Queen hill stations. (c) ______ ______ ______
The town of Mussoorie overlooks sprawling (d) ______ ______ ______

Doon valley and city of Dehradun. (e) ______ ______ ______
Mussoorie around 7,000 feet above (f) ______ ______ ______

the sea level. It is very popular tourist (g) ______ ______ ______

destination because of lovely weather. (h) ______ ______ ______

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Organic farming is a new system crop cultivation (a) ______ ______ ______
that uses biological methods fertilisation (b) ______ ______ ______

of pest control instead chemical fertilisers and (c) ______ ______ ______

pesticides. It is believed chemical fertilisers (d) ______ ______ ______
and pesticides are harmful the human beings (e) ______ ______ ______

and environment and are not necessary successful (f) ______ ______ ______
cultivation. It is more labour-intensive farming that (g) ______ ______ ______

can also reduce amount of greenhouse gases (h) ______ ______ ______
that lead to global warming.

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Since plants take in a lot carbon dioxide for (a) ______ ______ ______
photosynthesis, it sometimes wrongly (b) ______ ______ ______

believed plants ‘breathe in’ carbon dioxide. (c) ______ ______ ______
Plants, like all living things, take oxygen and (d) ______ ______ ______

give out carbon dioxide breathing. It is (e) ______ ______ ______
just that the amount carbon dioxide they take in (f) ______ ______ ______

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