帮我做篇英语阅读 CB13.Levi Jeans Levi Strauss was born in Bavaria in

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CB13.Levi Jeans
Levi Strauss was born in Bavaria in Europe in 1829.He moved to America when he was seventeen years old.His brother sold cloth,and he worked for them although he could not speak English very well.At this time many people were moving to California because there was gold there.Strauss went to look for gold,too.
Strauss took a lot of cloth with him to San Francisco.He thought it would make good tents in the gold fields.But when he got there,he saw that people needed clothes more than they needed tents.Clothes did not last very long in the gold fields.At first Strauss made pants out of canvas.They were very strong – much stronger than other pants.Soon everyone was wearing them.He decided that he would stop looking for gold and would only make pants.He opened a small shop and made s lot of money from selling pants.After a while,Strauss found an even stronger cloth than canvas.It came from a town in France called Nimes.The French called it ser de Nimes which means “cloth from Nimes”.The Americans called it “denim”.Strauss also bought some cloth from Genoa,a town in Italy.To Americans this name sounded like “jeans”,so they called his pants “jeans”.The cloth Strauss used was always blue,so people also called his pants “blue jeans” and “blue denims”.Other people called them “Levi’s”.Today Levi Strauss jeans are one of the best-selling jeans in the world.They last a long time and are very comfortable.Exercises
Choose the correct answer to each question:
1.the story is talking about ______________.
A.how to make a lot of money B.the man who made Levi jeans
C.life on the gold fields D.Levi Strauss’s journey across America
2.When he was seventeen,Levi Strauss went to _____________________.
A.Bavaria B.America C.Nimes D.Italy
3.Levi Strauss took cloth with him to California because he wanted to __________.
A.sell the cloth to make tents B.open a clothes shop
C.make pants for people D.find gold and become rich
4.At first Strauss made pants from ________________.
A.denim B.blue tents C.serge de Nimes D.canvas
5.Denim came from _______________.
A.the gold field B.Nimes C.Genoa D.France
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1 B
2 B
3 A
4 D
5 B