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| 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 |
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