【題目】閱讀理解。

Perhaps the most famous clothing brand name(服裝品牌名稱) in the world,Levi Strauss Cois the inventor of blue denim jeansHere’s how it happened

In the mid-1800s many people went to California to look for goldA young German named Levi Strauss traveled to San Francisco to help his brother on businessHe sold canvas(帆布) to the workers for tentsBut the workers said they needed pants more,because their pants were easy to wear outInstead of selling his canvas for tent-makinghe turned them into pantsThese kinds of pants were very popular with workersHe was very happy and named the kind of pantsdenimsAnd in 1853 he founded Levi Strauss & Co

Twenty years later the company began using a design with pocketsDuring the working,Strauss developed the process for putting metal rivets(鉚釘) in the jeans for strength

On May 201873,they received the U. S. Patent No. 139,121 for the process and that date is now considered the official birthday ofblue jeans

Today the company still has its factories in San Francisco,CaliforniaOver 11,000 people work in them and bring in over $4 billion a year

【1】Levi Strauss went to San,Francisco _______

Ato look for gold

Bto sell canvas

Cto visit his brother

Dto help his brother on business

【2】The workers often complained _______

Athe canvas were not good

Bthe work was too hard

Cthey couldn’t get enough food

Dtheir pants were not strong enough

【3】The underlined worddeveloped may mean ______ in Chinese

A.研制 B.想象

C.了解 D.確定

【4】The blue denim jeans have about _______ years of history

A100 B130

C140 D200

【5】The passage mainly tells us _______

Awho invented jeans

Bhow jeans were invented

Cwhen jeans were invented

Dwhy jeans are so popular

【答案】

【1】D

【2】D

【3】A

【4】C

【5】B

【解析】

試題分析:

【1】D從文章的第二段第二句可知,Levi Strauss去舊金山是幫助他的弟弟打理生意。

【2】D根據(jù)第二段第四句可知,工人們經(jīng)常抱怨他們的褲子不夠結(jié)實,極易磨破。

【3】A句意:在工作的過程中,Strauss研制了在牛仔褲上釘金屬鉚釘?shù)姆椒,使它們更結(jié)實。

【4】C由倒數(shù)第二段可知,世界公認(rèn)的牛仔褲的誕生日是1873520,距今約140年了。

【5】B這篇文章主要介紹了牛仔褲是如何被發(fā)明的。

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