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Jeans were not popular in some countries for ______ reasons.
A．economic
B．political
C．cultural
D．religious
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The last sentence suggests that jeans were ______.
A．used for military purposes
B．the symbol of the ideal of social equality
C．Worn by all kinds of people
D．the outfit of social improvement
In the mid 1940s, jeans gained popularity because ______.
A．they made the wearer look clean and tough
B．they were comfortable and looked friendly
C．they were the outward symbol of the mainstream society
D．they stood for freedom and a strong character
A.anger
B.fear
C.surprise
D.sadness
What is implied but not directly stated in the passage is that ______.
A．young people have been the leaders in the fight against authority
B．today, jeans are no longer looked down upon
C．jeans are the typical dress of civil rights marchers
D．formerly students were not allowed to wear jeans to class
A、The Renaissance period witnessed an extreme emphasis on gender differentiation in clothing.
B、The earliest jeans were not blue but brown.
C、Originally, tailcoat was created for the equestrians to ride conveniently.
D、Formal dress code emphasizes comfort and personal expression.
The first Jeans were made in 1850, in the California gold rush. A man named Levi Strauss realized that the gold-diggers' normal trousers weren't strong enough for the work they had to do and were wearing Out quickly. Strauss had some strong canvas, which he was going to make into tents and wagon covers to sell to the workers. Instead, he made some trousers out of it and these became the first Jeans. They were brown and called the waist-high overall.
The trousers sold well, and Strauss began looking around for ways of making them even tougher. He found a material that was better than canvas—a durable cotton that was manufactured only in the south of France. In a town called Nimes, the material was denim—the name coming from the French for from "Nimes". Strauss ordered boat loads of this material and, to keep the colour consistent, had it all dyed indigo blue. The trousers became known as blue denims or blue jeans (the Word jean is thought to come from Genoa. Italian sailors from the port of Genoa wore trousers similar to jeans, on the big trading ships).
In the early days cowboys, farmers, miners and timber Jacks—all people associated with hard work—wore jeans. But there were a few design problems with the early styles—as cowboys discovered to their cost. When they crouched too close to the camp fire, the rivet (the metal button strengthening the jeans at the bottom of the fly) got too hot and became very uncomfortable. Levi didn't take much notice of the cowboys complaints until the 1940s, when a company official crouched too close to a camp fire and experienced the problem first-hand. The crotch rivet was soon removed.
In the fifties and sixties, jeans represented rebellion. Film stars like James Dean, Elvis Presley and Marilyn Monroe wore them, as did pop stars like the Beatles and the Rolling Stones.
Fashions changed in the seventies and jeans became flared—tight at the hip and wide at the bottom. They were very, very tight—if you could get the zip up while standing up, they weren't tight enough. You had to lie down on the bed to do them up; for a really skin-tight fit, people would lie in a bath in their jeans and wait for them to shrink!
As the trousers became more and more successful, other jeans manufacturers started up—such as Wrengler, Pepe and Lee.
But jeans have had their opponents, in some countries—such as the old Soviet Union—jeans became a prized status symbol of the West. They suggested that a Soviet citizen had either traveled abroad or had contacts in the West. So the authorities discouraged the wearing of jeans. And in Japan, a consumers' association adamantly refused to sell one manufacturer's fashionable ripped jeans because it felt these were interior and defective product!
Which of the following statements is NOT true according the passage？
A．The first jeans were wearing out quickly.
B．The first jeans were made out of canvas by Strauss.
C．The first jeans were made over a hundred years ago.
D．The first jeans were brown instead of blue.
In the student rebellion and the antiwar movement that followed, blue jeans and work shirts provided a contrast to the uniforms of the dominant culture. Jeans were the opposite of high fashion, the opposite of the suit or military uniform.
With the rise of the women's movement in the late 1960s, the political significance of dress became increasingly explicit; Rejecting orthodox sex roles, blue jeans were a woman's weapon against uncomfortable popular fashions and the view that women should be passive. This was the cloth of action; the cloth of labor became the badge of freedom.
If blue jeans were for rebels in the 1960s and early 1970s, by the 1980s they had become a foundation of fashion-available in a variety of colors, textures, fabrics, and fit. These simple pants have made the long journey "from workers' clothes to cultural revolt to status symbol."
On television, in magazine advertising, on the sides of buildings and buses, jeans call out to us. Their humble past is obscured; practical roots are incorporated into a new aesthetic. Jeans are now the universal symbol of the individual and Western democracy. They are the costume of liberated women, with a fit tight enough to restrict like the harness of old-but with the look of freedom and motion.
In blue jeans, fashion reveals itself as a complex world of history and change. Yet looking at fashions, in and of themselves, reveals situations that often defy understanding. Our ability to understand a specific fashion-the current one of jeans, for example-shows us that as we try to make sense of it, our confusion intensifies. It is a fashion whose very essence is contradiction and confusion.
To pursue the goal of understanding is to move beyond the actual cloth itself, toward the more general phenomenon of fashion and the world in which it has risen to importance. Exploring the role of fashion within the social and political history of industrial America helps to reveal the parameters and possibilities of American society. The ultimate question is whether the development of images of rebellion into mass-produced fashions has actually resulted in social change.
In the eyes of college students in the mid-nineteenth-century blue jeans symbolized______.
A．a commitment to social struggle
B．a struggle for segregation
C．the dignity of struggle
D．military uniform
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