Before reading

1. TRUE / FALSE: Read the headline. Guess if  a-h  below are true (T) or false (F).

a.	A group of virgin sailors are heading to the bottom of the ocean.	T / F
b.	A submarine will explore the deepest part of the ocean.	T / F
c.	The deepest part of the ocean isn’t as deep as Mt. Everest is high.	T / F
d.	The boss of the submarine project hopes to attract sightseers one day.	T / F
e.	The submarine project boss became rich by opening record stores.	T / F
f.	The boss has also funded other record-breaking attempts.	T / F
g.	He said there isn’t much left to discover in the ocean..	T / F
h.	He doubted if he’d find new species of ocean life.	T / F

2. SYNONYM MATCH: Match the following synonyms from the article.

1.	boss	a.	do
2	unveiled	b.	runs
3.	conduct	c.	well known
4.	vessel	d.	animals
5.	wealthy	e.	chief
6.	famed	f.	clearly
7.	limit	g.	craft
8.	operates	h.	showed off
9.	obviously	i.	maximum
10.	creatures	j.	rich

3. PHRASE MATCH:  (Sometimes more than one choice is possible.)

1.	unveiled his	a.	on deep sea dives
2	explore the deepest	b.	the dives himself
3.	the trench is deeper than	c.	much to explore
4.	He plans to pilot one of	d.	parts of the ocean
5.	take wealthy passengers	e.	some fascinating creatures
6.	He started off by	f.	latest adventure project
7.	pushing things	g.	mankind
8.	There is just so	h.	to the limit
9.	come across	i.	Mount Everest is high
10.	useful for	j.	selling used music

While reading

GAP FILL: Put the words into the gaps in the text.

The boss of the Virgin group Richard Branson has (1) ____________ his latest adventure project. He plans to (2) ____________ the deepest parts of the ocean in a high-tech submarine. Virgin Oceanic will (3) ____________ five test dives over two years. His team plans to explore the deepest part of any ocean – the Pacific Ocean's Mariana Trench. At a (4) ____________ of almost 11,000 metres, the trench is deeper than Mount Everest is (5) ____________. Branson showed the (6) ____________ -built vessel to reporters at a news conference in California. He plans to (7) ____________ one of the dives himself. Branson also said he hoped Virgin Oceanic would one day take (8) ____________ passengers on deep sea dives to explore the ocean depths.		depth pilot explore wealthy high unveiled specially conduct
Branson is a (9) ____________ entrepreneur. He started off by selling used music records at university, which (10) ____________ to his opening of the Virgin Records stores. He has since become well known for pushing things to the (11) ____________. He has used his wealth to finance such (12) ____________ as hot-air ballooning around the world and has set sailing records. As well as his Virgin airline company, he also (13) ____________ Virgin Galactic, which will allow tourists to fly into space. He told reporters: "There is just so much to explore, so much to (14) ____________. We are going to obviously come across some fascinating (15) ____________ and learn some fascinating things that will hopefully be useful for (16) ____________."		limit operates famed creatures mankind discover led feats