TEN KILOMETERS ARE A LONG WAY FOR ME TO WALK.QUESTION 9

10/ Ten kilometers are a long way for me to walk.Question 9: Read the text carefully, then choose the correct answer. Jeans are the most popular kind of clothing in the world. They are popular almost everywhere and with everybody. They are considered not just practical but very fashionable as well. But what do you know about the history of Jeans? Who made the first Jeans? Levi Strauss , a young immigrant from Germany, arrived in San francico in 1850. California was in the middle of thw Gold Rush. Thousands of men were coming to california to dig for gold. And Strauss came to sell canvas, a heavy fabric uesd for tents, to these gold miners. One day Strauss saw that the miners needed strong clothes for work. He got an idea. He quickly took some of his canvas and made it into pants. These pants were What the miners needed. They were very strong and lasted a long time. The pants became popularimmediately. Later Strauss wanted to make his pants even better, so he stared making his pants from cotton cloth that was softer than canvas but just as strong. This febric came from Nimes, a city in France, and was called “denim” ( from de Nimes). Denim was popular in the 15

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century. Christtopher Columbus used denim for thesails of his ships. Sailors in Genoa, Italy, wore denim pants . The word “ Jean” comes from the word “ Genoa”. Mr Strauss made the first Jeans in the United States, but their name and their kind of cloth came from Italy and France.