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Baliet Shoes

When they are new, baliet shoes are interchangeable until the dancer (13).....them in and

decides which shoe goes best on which foot. In fact, baliet shoes are best when they are old

and professional dancers are (14) ..... to breaking their shoes down by any means, even

hitting them with a hammer, until they reach a comfortable (15).....of pliancy.

There are soft baliet shoes and point shoes. Soft shoes are (16).....worn by małe dancers.

Madę of leather and lined with canvas, the under sole is much smaller than the sole of the

foot. In this (17)....., the dancer's toes and part of his heel stand on the soft upper leather.

In point shoes, the toe is (18) .....with an extra layer of canvas, hardened with pastę, to

provide a little fiat area for the dancer to balance on.

13 A	smoothes	B	wears	C	bends	D	forms
14 A	accustomed	B	familiar	C	known	D	adjusted
15 A	grade	B	scalę	c	degree	D	extent
16 A	significantly	B	vitally	c	appreciably	D	essentially
17 A	respect	B	means	c	fashion	D	way
18 A	reinforced	B	augmented	c	replenished	D	aided