V. Read the following passage and write the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks from 23 to 27.

The First Films

The brothers Louis and Auguste Lumiere were the first people in the world to make moving pictures. ___(1)___ December 28th 1895. in Paris, they showed a movie in a cinema for the first time using a machine ___(2)___ the Cinematographe.
The film was a comedy about a gardener ___(3)___ had in accident with some water and got very wet. Everyone thought it was very funny.
In 1907, the first film studios were ___(4)___ in a part of Los Angeles known as Hollywood. During the 1920s, Hollywood was the centre of the world film industry. In the beginning, the films had no sound. Instead, ___(5)___ were words on the screen from time to time, telling people the story.