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Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C or D to indicate the correct option that best fits each of the numbered blanks from 2...

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Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C or D to indicate the correct option that best fits each of the numbered blanks from 26 to 30.

A short history of the selfie

They’re everywhere – people posing with their phones held out in front of them or on a selfie stick. And it’s not just young people – social media users of all ages (26) ______.

So when did this selfie mania begin? Most people would guess that it was around the beginning of this century or perhaps a bit later, with the rise of smartphones in the early 2000s, (27) ______. But most people would be wrong, just as Britney Spears and Paris Hilton were wrong when they declared on Twitter in 2017 that they had invented the selfie eleven years previously. (28) ______.

The oldest existing selfie dates back to 1839 when photographer Robert Cornelius took a self-portrait photograph of himself. To achieve this, he had to uncover the lens, run to his place, pose in the same position for up to fifteen minutes, and then run back to cover the lens again. Cornelius couldn’t take a dozen shots and choose the best one – his selfie had to be just one photo. Half a century later, in 1914, (29) ______.

And what about the origin of the word itself? It is thought to come from Australia, where people have a habit of putting -ie on the end of words – barbie for barbecue, postie for postal worker and even Aussie for Australian. Taking a photo of a lip injury in 2002, (30) ______. He referred to the photo as a selfie, and the term was born. Selfie became Oxford Dictionaries' word of the year in 2013.

(Adapted from Discovery)

Question 26:
A. take selfies, including space-walking astronauts and the Pope.
B. whose selfies, including space-walking astronauts and the Pope, are taken.
C. having been taken selfies, including space-walking astronauts and the Pope.
D. who, including space-walking astronauts and the Pope, had their selfies taken.

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