3 Choose the correct article or cross out both if
there should be no article.
Self-belief and strong nerves are essential if you're going
to make your mark as (1) a / the salesperson. Take 21-
year-old Leonora Pearl for example. She's (2) a / the sales
consultant for (3) a / the Cabouchon Collection of
(4) a / the jewellery. She works from (5) a/ the home or
wherever she happens to be. Not only is Leonora skilled at
selling jewellery, she is also good at selling (6) a / the job.
She says she fell in love with (7) a / the company's range
of products as soon as she saw it, and signed up to be
(8) a / the sales consultant 'within five minutes'. Leonora
finds (9) a / the prices 'fantastically reasonable' and
(10) a / the availability of stock 'absolutely fabulous'.
She is, in (11) a / the other words, a walking, talking
advertisement for (12) a / the products. 'In many ways,
I'm never really off (13) a / the duty,' she says. 'When I go
out, I always take (14) a / the duplicate set of whatever
jewellery I'm wearing, so that if anyone expresses interest
in, say, my necklace, I can sell it to them on (15) a / the
spot.'​