I. Choose the item among a, b, c or d that best answers the question about the passage.
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 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 ships. Sailors in Genoa, Italy, wore denim pants. The word “jeans” comes from the word “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 recently. 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. These two colors make denim look different from other kinds of cloth.
36. The word “denim” comes from the name of a city in _____.
a. France b. India c. Italy d. Germany
37. The word “jeans” is from the name of a city in _____.
a. France b. the United States c. Italy d. Germany
38. Levi Strauss went to California to _____.
a. sell things to miners b. look for gold
c. make jeans d. be a sailor
39. Rivets _____.
a. make good sails b. make tents strong
c. come from Genoa d. make the pockets of jeans strong
40. Cloth is made from thousands of _____.
a. tents b. sails c. factories d. threads
