Read the following passage carefully.

The lids of our eyes, which move up and down when we blink, are built in
windscreen wipers. The lids are made up of folds of skin and they can be
raised and lowered by certain muscles. But they move so rapidly that they
don‟t disturb our vision in anyway.
A curious thing about our lids is that they work automatically, just as
windscreen wipers do on motor cars when they are turned on. We blink
our eyes every sixty seconds.
Blinking is important involuntary action that protects our eyes. One reason
has to do with our eyelashes. These are the short curved hairs which are
attached to each lid. Their job is to catch dust which might go into our eyes.
When we walk through rain or sandstorm, the lids automatically drop
down and the eyelashes keep out the foreign matter. The eyebrows carry
off rain or perspiration to a side, so that the drops do not run into the eyes.
The chief benefit of blinking is that this provides automatic lubrication to the
eyes. Along the edge of each lid there are twenty or thirty tiny sebaceous glands.
These glands have their opening between the lashes. Every time our lids close,
these glands go to work and a secretion comes out. This secretion lubricates the
edge of the eye lid and the lashes, so that they won‟t become dry. In each eye we
have a tear gland, where the liquid that makes tears is stored. Every time we
blink, the eyelid applies suction to the opening of the tear gland and takes out
some of the liquid. This prevents the eye from drying out.