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

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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.