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has already recorded several songs as (6 )__ as a pop video and their íĩrst
single is being released next month.
A leading record company decided to create the group and the girls were
chosen (7 )______ the basis of both their appearance and singing ability. The
group’s image is not (8 )______ glamorous one, however. The company was
keen to point (9) that the girls are dressed in jeans and T-shirts on
the video, just (10) _ other children of their age, and they certainly do
not (11) ______ makeup. As the girls are all at stage school, they sing and
dance as (12) ______ of their education and the company is working closely
with the girls’ parents and teachers to (13)______ sure that their schoolwork
(14)__ not suffer. If, however, the girls make (15) of money, they
will not be allowed to spend it. It will be paid into a special bank account
until they are older.

17. TAKE A DEEP BREATH

Climbing up the last punishing steps to the top of a hill, your lungs may
feel as (1 )______ they are bursting. The explanation for this tight feeling in
your chest (2) ______ well be poor breathing technique, or the absence of
deep, slow and controlled breathing. Poor breathing technique is surprisingly
common, (3 )______ in athletes. Breathing is similar to running in (4 )_______
most of us have never had any instruction in how to do it. (5 )______a result,
we don’t know how to do it really well.
Although athletes are taught (6) ______ to breathe, their chest muscles
may not be able to achieve (7 )______maintain deep, efflcient breathing. (8)
______, when they try to breathe as they are told. they often (9 )_______tired
and breathless. The most eíTective way to improve the breathing is (10)
______training the lungs and the rib cage muscles, not only to improve their
strength, (11)______ also their resistance to íatigue and breathlessness.
Regular exercise will help strengthen these muscles. but (12) ______ is
another option. Scientists at the University of Birmingham have developed a
gadget to improve (1 3 )______ strength of respiratory muscles. You breathe
into the gadget through a mouthpiece for about two minutes (14)______ day,
and, over a four-week period, your rib cage muscles become stronger. In
experiments with athletes, endurance has been improved by more (15)
______thirty per cent after four weeks.

18. SHOPPING FOR GIRLS
Little girls all over London have a twelve-year-old boy to thank for
making some of their dreams (1) __ ___ true. Vivienne Pringle was out
shopping with her children (2) they passed an empty shop. As a game,
she asked them what (3 )____ ___ of thing they thought should be sold in it.
Her son Benedict Pringle said that (4 )______ wasn’t a shop that sold all the

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