For questions 26 – 35, read the text and choose the correct answer for each gap. Click on a gap and a choice of words will appear. Then choose the correct answer.
POSTCARDS
Many people receive picture postcards nowadays of places their friends and family have visited. They 26became popular in the 1890s. Until then it was only the rich who took holidays but at that time, because of the opening of the railways, ordinary people 27to go to the seaside too. Photographers 28that people wanted to take home a picture of their holiday 29they started to offer photographs for sale in seaside towns. And they sold millions 30them.
Today those old photographs give us a very 31idea of what holidays were like 32a hundred years ago. People did not actually post the photographs but brought them home to 33and show their friends. This was, however, 34beginning of today's picture postcard 35which is important to tourists everywhere.