When Derek was seventeen, he failed most of his school general examinations. His father and mother went to the school to seek the (1)…advice. Mr Baxter said, “I am very sorry your son’s examination (2)…have been so poor. Derek is a very pleasant young man, we’ve much (3)…his company here for the past five years. But I think it would be unwise to expect him to succeed in formal examinations. He hasn’t got the kind of (4)…that can apply itself to hard study. He will get (5)…well at anything that needs fast talking! He’s a most persuasive talker even now; one (6)…he may be a great one. I think he would (7)…become an excellent salesman, just what the country needs perhaps”
A salesman! Derek’s father turned away (8)… some disgust. Had he sent the boy to the most expensive private school in the south-west just to make him a (9)…He certainly had not. He (10)….certainly had not
