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31/01/2021 11:14 am
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Read the extracts given below and answer the questions that follow:
“It’s hard,” he said at length, in a choked voice. “I just wanted to break his neck for him, but I suppose it’s not to be. I know it’s him that’s at the bottom of it. And here I find them together, so I know it’s him. Well, if you say so, Mrs. B., I suppose I mustn’t put a hand on him”.
(а) What was so ‘hard’ for Jerry Fisher?
(b) Whose neck did he want to break?
(c) What does ‘choked’ mean?
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31/01/2021 11:15 am
(a) For Jerry Fisher it was hard that Bill (Mr. Bramble) had deserted him at the eleventh hour.
(b) He wanted to break Percy’s neck to persuade Bill not to fight.
(c) ‘suffocated’.