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[Solved] Pa, can’t you give me a picture of yourself boxing? I could swank like anything. And you don’t know how sick a chap gets of having chaps call him, ‘Goggles.’ (a) The speaker wants to swank. Why? (b) Why does the speaker feel sick? (c) Find a word ...

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Read the extracts given below and answer the questions that follow:

Pa, can’t you give me a picture of yourself boxing? I could swank like anything. And you don’t know how sick a chap gets of having chaps call him, ‘Goggles.’

(a) The speaker wants to swank. Why?

(b) Why does the speaker feel sick?

(c) Find a word in the extract similar in meaning to ‘man’.

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(a) Harold wants to swank as he is the son of a famous boxer ‘Young Porky’.

(b) Harold feels sick because he is called ‘Goggles’ by his classmates.

(c) Chap.

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