A young man from Germany named Levi Strauss arrived in California in 1850. He went there to sell things to the miners. He saw that the miners needed strong pants, so he began to make them. He used cloth that people made tents from. He put rivets on the pockets to make them strong because the man put rocks in their pockets. These pants were very strong and lasted a long time. The pants became very popular immediately.
Later Mr. Strauss started making jeans from cotton cloth from Nimes, France. People called this cloth denim. denim was popular in the fifteenth century. Christopher Columbus used denim for the sails of his ship. Sailors in Genoa, Italy, wore denim pants. The word “jeans” comes from the words
“Genoa”. Mr. Strauss made the first jeans in the United States, but the idea and the kind of cloth came from Europe. The names came from France and Italy. jeans were always blue until presently . people used indigo to dye them . indigo is the oldest dye in the world. most jeans have blue threads going across and white threads going up and down . there two colors make denim look different from other kinds of cloth
1. the word Denim comes from the name of a city in_______
A. france B. India C. Italy D.Germany
2. the word Jeans is from the name of a city in_______
A. france B. the united states C. Italy D.Germany
3.Levi Strauss went to California to_______
A. sell things to miners B. look for gold C. make jeans D. be a sailor
4. Rivets_____________________________.
A. make good sails B. make tents strong C. come from genoa D.make the pockets of jeans strong
5. cloth is made from thousands of_________________
A. tents B. sails C. factories D.threads (coton , wool)
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