HE WAS FAR FROM HIS OWN NEIGHBOURHOOD OR ANYTHING THAT MIGHT HAVE...

He was far from his own neighbourhood or anything that might have looked familiar.

A. friendly B. near C. well - known D. strange

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, c or D on your answer sheet to

indicate the correct word or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks.

Jeans are very popular with (23) ______people all over the world. Some people say

that jeans are the “uniform” of youth. But they haven’t always been popular. The story of

jeans started (24) ______two hundred years ago. People in Genoa, Italy made pants so

the cloth made in Genoa (25) ______ “jeanos”. Accordingly, the pants were called

“jeans”.

In 1850, a salesman in California began selling pants made of canvas. His name was

Levi Strauss. Because they were so strong, “Levi’s pants” became (26) ______ with gold

miners, farmers and cowboys. Six years later, Levi began making his pants with blue

cotton cloth called denim. Soon after, factory (27) ______ in the us and Europe began

wearing jeans. At the time, young people actually didn’t wear them very much until later

on.