Read the text below. For questions (23–32) choose the correct answer (A, B, C or D).

Sugababes

The story of the Sugababes starts with two self-confident eight-year-old friends from London who (23) ______ a hatred of maths but loved singing (24) ______ to the radio. Mutya and Keisha then met Siobhan who joined their “gang”. They (25) ______ writing and singing and at fourteen the group (26) ______ their first record deal. Just two years later, when their classmates were studying for their exams, the girls (27) ______ their first album, the incredibly cool One Touch. But it wasn’t as easy as it (28) ______ . The album didn’t get publicity and Siobhan decided to leave the group. Keisha and Mutya advertised for another girl but did not want to (29) ______ the group name. “We wanted someone who could sing and had her own ideas,” they said. That was Heidi. Heidi used to be in the girlband Atomic Kitten but she left because she never quite (30) ______ in. Heidi was desperate to sing live in concerts and do her own writing — and she soon realised that she would never be able to do this in a “manufactured” band. Her love of urban music (31) ______ her the perfect Sugababe. The three became friends as soon as they met and (32) ______ to write and record the huge Angels with Dirty Faces album.

The story of the Sugababes starts with two self-confident eight-year-old friends from London who (23) ______ a hatred of maths ...