Question

IV.Fill in the blank with a suitable word.

Fashions go round and round

Fashions have always changed with time. No doubt Roman girls worried (1)...................... having the latest hairstyles and boys in Ancient Egypt wanted to have sandals that were cool and not the sensible ones their mothers preferred.

Looking back over recent times, there seems to be two main differences in the (2) ........................fashions have changed compared to earlier times. Firstly, far (3) ........................people have a choice of clothes available to them. There are few places (4) ........................the world where the trainers, the caps or the T-shirts of teenagers (5) ........................not change from one year to the next. Secondly, styles are repeated within a (6) ........................shorter time than they used to be. For (7)........................, in the 1960s, dresses had the (8) ...........................low waist and narrow skirts as forty years before.

In the early years of the 21st century, the shop are (9) ..............................of long skirts and coloured scarves like the ones in fashion only thirty years before. Soon, we will find that the really fashionable people look no different from the (10) ...........................of us, because it is only ten years since their clothes in fashion before.

Answer 1

Fashions have always changed with time. No doubt Roman girls worried (1).............about......... having the latest hairstyles and boys in Ancient Egypt wanted to have sandals that were cool and not the sensible ones their mothers preferred.

Looking back over recent times, there seems to be two main differences in the (2) .........way...............fashions have changed compared to earlier times. Firstly, far (3) ..........more..............people have a choice of clothes available to them. There are few places (4) .in.......................the world where the trainers, the caps or the T-shirts of teenagers (5) ..........do..............not change from one year to the next. Secondly, styles are repeated within a (6) ...........much.............shorter time than they used to be. For (7)..............example.........., in the 1960s, dresses had the (8) .............same..............low waist and narrow skirts as forty years before.

In the early years of the 21st century, the shop are (9) ....full..........................of long skirts and coloured scarves like the ones in fashion only thirty years before. Soon, we will find that the really fashionable people look no different from the (10) ............rest..............of us, because it is only ten years since their clothes in fashion before.