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(A) Before jeans were blue, even before they were pants, jean was a twilled, cotton cloth, similar to denim, usedfor making sturdy work clothes. The textile was milled in the Italian town of Genoa, which French weavers calledGenes, the origin of our word “jeans.”      The origin of blue jeans, though, is really the story of a seventeen-year-old American immigrant tailor namedLevi Strauss. When Strauss arrived in San Francisco during the gold rush of the 1850s, he sold much-neededcanvas for tents and covered wagons. An astute observer, he realized that miners went through trousers quickly, soStrauss stitched some of his heavy-duty canvas into overalls. Though heavy and stiff, the pants held up so wellthat Strauss was in demand as a tailor.       In the 1860s, he replaced canvas with denim, a softer fabric milled in Nimes, France. Known in Europe asserge de Nimes, in America the textile’s name was pronounced “denim.” And Strauss discovered that dyeingneutral-colored denim pants indigo blue to minimize soil stains greatly increased their popularity.       Blue jeans, strictly utilitarian, first became a fashion item in 1935. That year, an advertisement appeared inVogue. It featured two society women in snug-fitting jeans, and it kicked off a trend named “Western Chic.” Thefad was minor compared to the one that erupted out of the designer-jeans competition of the 1970s. The pantsonce intended for work became the costume of play, creating a multimillion-dollar industry. At the height of thedesigner-jeans war, Calvin Klein jeans, for instance, despite their high price of fifty dollars (or because of it),were selling at the rate of 250,000 pairs a week.
56. What is this article mainly about?
(A) Levi Strauss.
(B) The history of blue jeans.
(C) How jeans are made.
(D) The designer-jeans war.

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答案：B
難度：適中0.5
統計：A(0),B(0),C(0),D(0),E(0)

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