26. Choose the correct answer
The history of surfing
Surfing is one of the oldest sports on the planet. No one really knows (21)……………. when it first started but it is (22)…………….. that people have used wooden boards to ride waves for about three thousand years. The first surfers were probably fishermen from islands in the Pacific Ocean, who found that bringing the fish they had (23)……………. to shore was much easier if they rode waves onto the beach in their small boats Over time, this developed from part of the working day into a (24)…………… activity.
The first (25)……….. records of surfing appeared in the late eighteenth century. English explorer Captain James Cook wrote in his diary about seeing locals riding the waves for (26)……………on a Pacific island called Tahiti.
In the early twentieth century, surfing spread to the US state of California and Australia. It's now popular all around the world.