Read the following extract and answer the questions below:

'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.'

Who was standing on a little high hump on the plateau?

What maddened the young seagull?

What did the young seagull's mother do? Why?

Find the word in the text that means 'sharpen'.

The young seagull's mother was standing on a little high hump on the plateau.
The young seagull was maddened at the sight of the food.
The young seagull's mother tore at a piece of fish that lay at her feet and then scrapped each side of her beak on the rock. She knew that her son was hungry. She intentionally did so to provoke her son so that he attempts to fly.
The word in the text that means 'sharpen' is 'whet'.

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