Question

That was twenty-four hours ago. Since then nobody had come near him. The day before, all day long, he had watched his parents flying about with his brothers and sister, perfecting them in the art of flight, teaching them how to skim the waves and how to dive for fish herring and devour it, standing on a rock, while his parents circled around raising a proud cackle. And all the morning the whole family had walked about on the big plateau midway down the opposite cliff taunting him for his cowardice. The sun was now ascending the sky, blazing on his ledge that faced the south. He felt the heat because he had not eaten since the previous nightfall. He stepped slowly out to the brink of the ledge, and standing on one leg with the other leg hidden under his wing, he closed one eye, then the other, and pretended to be falling asleep. Still they took no notice of him. He saw his two brothers and his sister lying on the plateau dozing with their heads sunk into their necks. His father was preening the

feathers on his white back. Only his mother was looking at him. She was standing on a little high hump on the plateau, her white breast thrust forward. Now and again, she tore at a piece of fish that lay at her feet and then scrapped each side of her beak on the rock. The sight of the food maddened him. How he loved to tear food that way, scrapping his beak now and again to whet it.


1) What were parent seagulls and the young seagulls brothers and sisters doing ? (2)

2) Why was young seagull mad with hunger ? (2)

3) Her white breast thrust forward. (Identify the part of speech of underlined word.)

) Use the given words in sentences of your own. (2)

Skim : move lightly

Coward : shy

5) Why are young birds afraid to take their first flight and why do human being find it

difficult to face great challenges

Answer 1

From which standard this question comes

Answer 2

Explanation:

how long had nobody comes near him?