Task 1 Read the following passage about the selfie. Choose the best heading for each paragraph from the list in the box. There is one heading you do NOT need. 1. Paragraph 1______ 2. Paragraph 2______ 3. Paragraph 3______ 4. Paragraph 4______ 5. Paragraph 5______ A. More than just a picture B. The new trend of the selfie C. The influence of others' comments D. The changed opinion towards the selfie E. Insights into the behaviour F. Advances in the selfie technology The evolution of the selfie Paragraph 1 Against all odds, the selfie has evolved from an embarrassing teenage trend into a modern phenomenon. Now, some experts are beginning to see the selfie as a good thing. Few 21st-century trends have been as thoroughly maligned as the selfie, the digital self-portrait snapped at arm's length on a smart phone. Now experts-including art historians and psychologists-argue that selfies perform important social functions. Paragraph 2 The selfie of 2017looks radically different to the selfie of 2013. In 2017, we're no longer “sparrow-facing”, the wide-eye variation on a pouty ''duckface”. In 2017, the big trend has been the "plandid” the planned candid selfie. The "planned candid" is a move away from studiously posed pictures and, some would argue, a backlash against the overly posed, pouty duckface selfie of the past. Paragraph 3 Instead of deriding selfies as a psychologically and socially destructive force, academics now seek to glean valuable insights from this rich sociological databank, finding that the average age of the selfie-taker is 23.7 among people under 4o, women take more selfies than men over 4o, men become the main culprits (perhaps because their female peers are anxious about ageing). Academics have also analysed ''extreme poses” such as the "head tilt” finding that the female tiIt is 50% deeper than the male tilt. Paragraph 4 There's an old quote, we are what we think other people think we are lf we think other people think we're beautiful and special, for example, we're likely to think that way too. So you see how the comments underneath the selfIes we post can have potentially powerful effects on our sense of self. Paragraph 5 SelfIes are just an example of people trying to make connections in an increasingly impersonal world. Selfies are part of a long human tradition stretching back to self-portraits, as a means of exploring ourselves and experimenting with our identity. All that's changed is the technology.