3. Success & Failure

Phrasal Verbs INDEX

Gap fill: Fill in the missing particle(s) following the verbs. Some answers contain two words.

Frederick was a bright child. He took school from the very first day. While most of the other children got normally, Frederick got brilliantly. He was not a healthy child, but that did not take his academic performance. He disliked public examinations, but he never fell in any subject.

When Frederick graduated from Cambridge University with a first class honours degree, everybody predicted that he would really take in his career. Fred decided to go into business and at first this seemed to be the right choice. He pulled many important deals and even his plan to reorganize the company was carried 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 fell and he became more worried. He was determined never to give , but in the end he had to give to ill health.

One day, he passed on the way home from work. When he came , he found himself in great pain in a hospital bed. The pain passed , but he was laid for many weeks. On his return to work, he found that business had fallen . Poor Fred suffered a heart attack and never pulled . A few weeks later, he passed .