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Jeans are very popular especially with teenagers. It’s said that the material came originally from Nimes, a city in France. These jeans were particularly created for the sailors, who loved wearing jeans very much. These jeans could be worn when wet and it could even be rolled over with ease. This was particularly useful when the sailors were busy with their everyday work.

Our favorite pair of blue, jeans was originally worn by workers particularly during World War II. Perhaps the strong and durable(耐用的) look made these blue jeans popular among all the factory workers. A strange thing that can be noticed happened in the early period of the 1950s when blue jeans worn by teens were considered to be a form of being against others. Besides, adults who wore blue jeans were not allowed to enter a movie theatre. It was only during the 1960s that blue jeans were accepted as a fashion trend in the United States of America. Movie stars wore them in films and in public. Many young people follow them.

The different looks of the regular blue jeans which are enjoyed by people were introduced by the mid 1950s. It was Donald Freeland who gave jeans a whole new look and brought it to the front. Originally, jeans were always worn loose. At first, jeans worn by men had the zipper(拉链)on the front. However, for women, it was on the side. By the late 1960's , the zipper finally was on the front side for women as well.

Today, there are many new designs that are being created by fashion designers to meet the increasing demands from jean lovers! A pair of basic blue jeans, however, is one such piece of clothing that will never go out of fashion! When you open one's cupboard, there is always one pair of jeans one likes best.

1.The sailors originally were interested in wearing jeans because jeans .

A．could give them a pleasant look B．were convenient and easy to use

C．were cheaper than other trousers D．could be washed and made easily

2.According to the passage, blue jeans .

A．were once a sign of being against their parents

B．were popular with people of different ages in the 1950s

C．began to be poplar with American people in the 1960s

D．have been worn by the factory workers after World War II

3.The following all lead to the popularity of jeans EXCEPT .

A．American culture B．various designs

C．movie stars' influence D．its cloth quality

4.It is known from the passage that .

A．Donald Freeland gave jeans a whole new design

B．the zipper was always on the front side of all jeans

C．The jeans were introduced into America in the 1950s

D．Donald Freeland was the first to make jeans popular in the world

5.In the last paragraph, the writer is trying to .

A．show his interest in blue jeans

B．tell us the popularity of jeans

C．praise the benefits of blue jeans

D．discuss the development of jeans

【答案】

1.B

2.C

3.A

4.A

5.B

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Levi Strauss was born in Bavaria (巴伐利亚) in Europe in 1829. He emigrated（移居）to the United States of America when he was seventeen years old. His brothers sold cloth, and he worked for them even though he could not speak English very well. At this time many people were moving to California because gold was discovered there. Strauss went to look for gold, too.

Strauss took a lot of cloth with him to San Francisco. He thought that he could make tents out of the cloth and sell them to people working in the gold fields. But when he got there, he saw that people had a greater need for clothes than tents. Clothes did not last very long in the gold fields. At first Strauss made pants out of canvas（帆布）. They were very strong ---- much stronger than other pants. Soon everyone was wearing them , so he decided only to make pants. He opened a small store and made a lot of money from selling pants.

After a while, Strauss found a material even stronger than canvas. It came from a town in France called Nimes. The French called the material serge de Nimes, which means “cloth from Nimes”. The Americans called it denim. Strauss also bought some cloth from Genoa, a town in Italy. To Americans this name sounds like “jeans”, so they called his pants jeans. The cloth that Strauss used was always blue, so people also called his pants blue jeans and blue denims. Other people called them Levi’s. Levi Strauss jeans are some of the best-selling jeans in the world today. They last a long time and are very comfortable.

56. When Levi Strauss went to San Francisco for the first time, he wanted to ______.

A. find a strong material to make pants

B. work for his brothers

C. make money by selling tents

D. open a store to make pants

57. In the beginning Strauss made pants from ______.

A. serge de Nimes B. silk

C. denim D. canvas

58. The name “jeans” was first used by ______.

A. Bavarians B. Americans

C. Italians D. Frenchmen

59. The story is about ______.

A. where cloth came from

B. the man who first made jeans

C. how to make lots of money

D. life on the gold fields

Jeans are trousers made of a kind of clothe called denim. For many people, blue jeans represent American culture.

The history of blue jeans usually begins with a man named Levi Strauss. Although he did not invent the jeans, he is considered the first person to produce and sell this kind of clothing in large amounts.

Levi Strauss was born in Bavaria, Germany. In 1847, he and his family moved to the US. He opened a store, first in New York, and then in San Francisco, California. Among the products he sold were jeans. These trousers were especially useful for miners in California who needed clothing made of a strong material.

Levi Strauss partnered with a clothing maker named Jacob Davis, who had invented a process for making rivets(铆钉) for jeans. These metal things helped strengthen the blue jean cloth to make the trousers stronger. In 1873, Strauss and Davis received a patent to officially own this invention. They began producing “ copper-riveted waist overalls(工装裤)”. In 1928 the Levi Strauss company used the word “Levi’s” as the trademark for their products.

The 19^th-century workers would probably be surprised to know that their trousers would one day become a fashion object. Today, jeans are worn by people of all ages, incomes and lifestyles. Jeans come in many colors other than blue and in many styles and at many prices.

A national museum in Washington, D.C. has one of the oldest known pairs of Levi’s jeans in its collection. Jeans have come to express different ideas about American culture based on the people who wear them. These include the heroes of the Wild West and famous Hollywood actors like James Dean and Marlon Brando in the 1950s. Writer James Sullivan published a book called Jean: A Cultural History of an American Icon. In the book, he says jeans serve as a sign for two American values, creativity and rebellion (叛逆).

This passage is mainly about _______.

A. the life story of Levi Strauss B. jeans and American culture

C. why jeans are popular. D. the history of jeans

We know from the passage that Levi Strauss _________.

A. was the first person who wore jeans. B. moved to the US from Germany alone.

C. not only sold jeans at first in his store D. helped Jacob Davis invent a kind of rivet

Which of the following statements is TRUE about jeans?

A. Strauss and Davis owned the invention of using rivets on jeans.

B. In California, Levi’s was the only jeans seller in 1928.

C. Jeans were called copper-riveted waist overalls at first.

D. Jeans were originally made for heroes of the Wild West.

According to the last but one paragraph,jeans should be best described as _________.

A. strong B. cultural C. popular D. unique

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