Levi Strauss was born in Bavaria (巴伐利亞) in Europe in 1829. He emigrated（移居）to the United States of America when he was seventeen years old. His brothers sold cloth, and he worked for them even though he could not speak English very well. At this time many people were moving to California because gold was discovered there. Strauss went to look for gold, too.
Strauss took a lot of cloth with him to San Francisco. He thought that he could make tents out of the cloth and sell them to people working in the gold fields. But when he got there, he saw that people had a greater need for clothes than tents. Clothes did not last very long in the gold fields. At first Strauss made pants out of canvas（帆布）. They were very strong ---- much stronger than other pants. Soon everyone was wearing them , so he decided only to make pants. He opened a small store and made a lot of money from selling pants.
After a while, Strauss found a material even stronger than canvas. It came from a town in France called Nimes. The French called the material serge 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 sounds like “jeans”, so they called his pants jeans. The cloth that Strauss used was always blue, so people also called his pants blue jeans and blue denims. Other people called them Levi’s. Levi Strauss jeans are some of the best-selling jeans in the world today. They last a long time and are very comfortable.
56. 小題1:When Levi Strauss went to San Francisco for the first time, he wanted to ______.
A．find a strong material to make pants
B．work for his brothers
C．make money by selling tents
D．open a store to make pants
57. 小題2:In the beginning Strauss made pants from ______.
A．serge de NimesB．silk
C．denimD．canvas
58. 小題3:The name “jeans” was first used by ______.
A．BavariansB．Americans
C．ItaliansD．Frenchmen
59. 小題4:The story is about ______.
A．where cloth came from
B．the man who first made jeans
C．how to make lots of money
D．life on the gold fields

小題1:C
小題2:D
小題3:B
小題4:B
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It is not unusual at all for teens to answer their parents with one work answers. “Where are you going?” “Places.” “When will you be back?” “Sometime.” “Who will you be with?” “People.”
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When they’re home and sit down to eat a meal, sit down with them. You need to open up to them about your life. Tell them of an interesting incident at the office, let them in on a bit of family gossip(閑談), discuss a piece of news with them. They are glad that you see them as old enough to be in on a few experiences of your life. By letting a teen in on your life, they just may let you in of theirs
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A．teens no longer tell parents their detailed information
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B．their physical and mental changes
C．a(chǎn)n unpleasant parent-child relationship
D．their wishes for keeping silent
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A．Parents should understand their children.
B．parents should keep their children safe.
C．Parents should open their hearts to their children.
D．Parents should give their children enough freedom.
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B．To direct teenagers
C．To present findings
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One day a mime(啞劇演員)is visiting the zoo and attempts to earn some money as a street performer. As soon as he starts to draw a crowd，a zookeeper drags him into his office．The zookeeper explains that the zoo's most popular attraction，a gorilla(大猩猩)，has died suddenly and the keeper fears that attendance（出席人數(shù)） at the zoo will fall off．He offers the mime a job to dress up as the gorilla. The mime accepts．
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A．he has been out of work
B．he doesn’t like being a mime
C．he likes performing at the zoo
D．he is offered a higher pay there
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A．Hard and tiring．B．Dangerous.
C．Easy and funny．D．Boring.
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A．find pleasure for himselfB．get the lion’s attention
C．get his pay raised D．win back his audience
小題4:The underlined words “a fuel” in Paragraph 3 can be replaced by __________.
A. frightening    B common   C．exciting   D. familiar

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