AT 8 O’CLOCK THE PLANETOOK OFF INTO THE AIR AND SOARED ABOVE THE C...
22.
At 8 o’clock the plane
took off into the air
and soared above the clouds.
A.
decreased
B.
got dressed
C.
landed
D.
slowed down
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)_________ 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.