3A. Life & health: better & worse____Success and failure____[Latinate]

Frederick was a bright child. He found school easy from the very first day. While most of the other children progressed normally, Frederick fared brilliantly. He was not a healthy child, but that did not detract from his academic performance. He disliked public examinations, but never failed to reach the mark in any subject.

When Frederick graduated from Cambridge University with a first class honours degree, everybody predicted that he would really succeed rapidly in his career. Fred decided to go into business and at first this seemed to be the right choice. He clinched many important deals and even his plan to reorganize the company was successfully attempted with the result that he was promoted to Managing Director.

Unfortunately, the stress of his new position became too much for him. His expansion plans failed to materialize and he became more worried. He was determined never to surrender, but in the end he had to yield to ill health.

One day, he fainted on the way home from work. When he regained consciousness, he found himself in great pain in a hospital bed. The pain gradually disappeared, but he was confined to bed for many weeks. On his return to work, he found that business had deteriorated. Poor Fred suffered a heart attack and never recovered. A few weeks later, he died.