Преобразуйте, если это необходимо, слово ONE так, чтобы оно грамматически соответствовало содержанию текста.
History of Monopoly
Have you ever played Monopoly? The board game Monopoly was invented in the early 20th century. The __________________ version of Monopoly was patented in 1904.
1
Преобразуйте, если это необходимо, слово BUY так, чтобы оно грамматически соответствовало содержанию текста.
In this game players __________________ various pieces of land from either the game bank or other players.
Источник: ВПР по английскому языку 11 класс 2019 год. Вариант 1.
2
Преобразуйте, если это необходимо, слово BECOME так, чтобы оно грамматически соответствовало содержанию текста.
The game __________________ so popular because it explained laws of economics to common people in a simple way.
Источник: ВПР по английскому языку 11 класс 2019 год. Вариант 1.
3
Преобразуйте, если это необходимо, слово LATE так, чтобы оно грамматически соответствовало содержанию текста.
__________________ the game developed new rules and opportunities.
Источник: ВПР по английскому языку 11 класс 2019 год. Вариант 1.
4
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In modern Monopoly players can also develop __________________ pieces of land by building factories and other businesses there.
Источник: ВПР по английскому языку 11 класс 2019 год. Вариант 1.
5
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There are many kinds of Monopoly now. There is even a version which __________________ Russian Monopoly with beautiful figures and pictures of Russian sights.
Источник: ВПР по английскому языку 11 класс 2019 год. Вариант 1.
Спрятать пояснение
Пояснение.
По смыслу требуется порядковое числительное.
Ответ: first.
Источник: ВПР по английскому языку 11 класс 2019 год. Вариант 1.
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The game of Monopoly
Probably the most recognized board game in the world is Monopoly. The game (19)
(INVENT) in 1933 by Charles Darrow, during the height of the Great Depression. Darrow, who lived in Germantown, Pennsylvania, was himself unemployed during those difficult financial times.
He (20)
(SET) the original game on the locations of Atlantic City, New Jersey, the site of numerous pre-Depression vacations, where he walked along the Boardwalk and Visited Park Place.
Darrow made the (21)
(ONE) games by hand and sold them locally until Parker Brothers purchased the rights to Monopoly in 1935 and took it toward the mass production of today.
Our home the Earth
Our planet is the home of hundreds of thousands of living creatures. Life (22)
(EXIST) everywhere. lt has ascended to the tops of the (23)
(HIGH) mountains, where there is hardly any air. Life is hidden beneath the oceans, reconciling itself to the tremendous pressures exerted by the waters. Life has come to hot deserts and tothe eternal ice of the Arctic. Through the history living creatures (24)
(ADAPT) themselves to an absence of oxygen, to everlasting gloom, and to unbroken silence. But, wherever living organisms have settled, they need food which has to be distributed throughout their bodies, (25)
(CARRY) out the processes of metabolism. They also need to feel at home in the environment and start families to ensure the survival of the species.
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Maria Montessori
Founder of the Montessori method of education for preschool children,Maria Montessori was the first to receive a (26)
(MEDICINE) degree in Italy. After receiving her degree in 1894, she worked with subnormal children as a psychiatrist at the University of Rome. It was there that she pioneered in writing an (27)
(INSTRUCT) for retarded children through the use of manipulative materials. The success of Maria’s programme with retarded children led her to believe that many of the (28)
(IMPROVE) could be made in the education of normal children. So she opened the firstday care centre in Rome. The centre was so (29)
(SUCCESS) that similar institutions were Opened in other parts of Europe and in the United States. Followers of the method believe that a child will learn (30)
(NATURAL) if put in an environment with the proper materials. The teacher acts as an (31)
(OBSERVE) and interferes if help is needed.
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The game of chess
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B4 |
No one knows for certain where the game of chess comes from. Most likely, the first game was played in ancient India in the 6th century. |
PLAY |
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B5 |
During the 6th or 7th century, the game called chaturanga travelled from India to neighbouring Persia. |
CALL |
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B6 |
There its name became shatranj. The word «chess» comes from either shatranj, or from the Persian shan, which means «king». «Checkmate» comes from the Persian shan mat, which means «the king is dead». |
BECOME |
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B7 |
Later, in the 13th century, the game came to Europe. |
LATE |
The Earth
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B8 |
The Earth is moving around the Sun at about 1,800 kilometers a minute. However, there is not/isn’t anything close by to show this. |
NOT BE |
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B9 |
When traveling/travelling in a car, you see nearby bushes and building rushing by, but mountains in the distance don’t seem to move at all. |
TRAVEL |
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B10 |
If we had other satellites close by along the route of Earth’s orbit, we’d see how fast we are going. But the stars are like the mountains, too far away to help us judge our speed. |
WE |
Задание № 23578
According to the author, Elizabeth Magie would have made herself go directly to jail because …
1) the sales of the game have been doubled.
2) the values of the game have been turned upside down.
3) the influence of the game is reduced.
4) the players are encouraged greatly to buy it.
“Buy land — they aren’t making it any more,” quipped Mark Twain. It’s a maxim that would certainly serve you well in a game of Monopoly, the bestselling board game that has taught generations of children to buy up property, stack it with hotels, and charge fellow players sky-high rents for the privilege of accidentally landing there.
The game’s little-known inventor, Elizabeth Magie, would no doubt have made herself go directly to jail if she’d lived to know just how influential today’s twisted version of her game has turned out to be. Why? Because it encourages its players to celebrate exactly the opposite values to those she intended to champion. Bom in 1866, Magie was an outspoken rebel against the norms and politics of her times. She was unmarried into her 40s, independent and proud of it, and made her point with a publicity stunt. Her aim, she told shocked readers, was to highlight the subordinate position of women in society. “We are not machines,” she said. “Girls have minds, desires, hopes and ambition.”
In addition to confronting gender politics, Magie decided to take on the capitalist system of property ownership — this time not through a publicity stunt but in the form of a board game. The inspiration began with a book that her father, the anti-monopolist politician James Magie, had handed to her. In the pages of Henry George’s classic, Progress and Poverty (1879), she encountered his conviction that “the equal right of all men to use the land is as clear as their equal right to breathe the air — it is a right proclaimed by the fact of their existence.” Determined to prove the merit of George’s proposal, Magie invented and in 1904 patented what she called the Landlord’s Game. Laid out on the board as a circuit (which was a novelty at the time), it was populated with streets and landmarks for sale. The key innovation of her game, however, lay in the two sets of rules that she wrote for playing it. Under the ‘Prosperity’ set of rules, every player gained each time someone acquired a new property, and the game was won when the player who had started out with the least money had doubled it. Under the ‘Monopolist’ set of rules, in contrast, players got ahead by acquiring properties and collecting rent from all those who were unfortunate enough to land there — and whoever managed to bankrupt the rest emerged as the sole winner.
The purpose of the dual sets of rules, said Magie, was for players to experience a “practical demonstration of the present system of land grabbing with all its usual outcomes and consequences” and hence to understand how different approaches to property ownership can lead to vastly different social outcomes. “It might well have been called ‘The Game of Life’, ‘remarked Magie’, “as it contains all the elements of success and failure in the real world, and the object is the same as the human race in general seems to have, for example, the accumulation of wealth.”
The game was soon a hit among Left-wing intellectuals, on college campuses including the Wharton School, Harvard and Columbia, and also among Quaker communities, some of which modified the rules and redrew the board with street names from Atlantic City. Among the players of this Quaker adaptation was an unemployed man called Charles Darrow, who later sold such a modified version to the games company Parker Brothers as his own.
Once the game’s true origins came to light, Parker Brothers bought up Magie’s patent, but then re-launched the board game simply as Monopoly, and provided the eager public with just one set of rules: those that celebrate the triumph of one over all. Worse, they marketed it along with the claim that the game’s inventor was Darrow, who they said had dreamed it up in the 1930s, sold it to Parker Brothers, and become a millionaire. It was a rags-to-riches fabrication that ironically exemplified Monopoly’s implicit values: chase wealth and crush your opponents if you want to come out on top.
So next time someone invites you to join a game of Monopoly, here’s a thought. As you set out piles for the Chance and Community Chest cards, establish a third pile for Land-Value Tax, to which every property owner must contribute each time they charge rent to a fellow player. How high should that land tax be? And how should the resulting tax receipts be distributed? Such questions will no doubt lead to fiery debate around the Monopoly board — but then that is exactly what Magie had always hoped for.
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In 1930, an unemployed salesman, Charles Darrow, sat at his kitchen table, creating a ……… of a new game. When he approached games company Parker Brothers to sell it, Darrow was met with disdain and turned away.
prototype
procedure
control
contest
An executive at the Parker Brothers Company told him the game would never be popular because there were too many mistakes, the rules were complicated, and it took too long to play. Darrow corrected some of the ……… errors and decided to sell the game independently.
distributed
fundamental
function
designs
This entrepreneur was able to produce and sell 5000 sets to a popular department store. The Parker Brothers were so impressed, they ………. their original opinion and negotiated a deal with Darrow.
denied
forestalled
remembered
recanted
Amazingly, Parker Brothers Company starting producing 20,000 sets a week. Players could enjoy financial risks and rewards using ……… money. Darrow was congratulated on inventing a very creative game.
abundant
bogus
genuine
economic
Unfortunately, a few years after Darrow’s death, a lengthy trademark lawsuit revealed that the game of ……… and initiative may not have originated from his creative genius.
speculation
vocation
enterprise
organization
As a young man, Darrow had visited Quaker friends who showed him a game of «properties.» The intent of the game was to teach the evils of making ……… profits. Darrow borrowed the game and rules.
combined
taxation
property
excessive
Another contender, Elizabeth Magie, insisted she had created The Landlord’s Game in 1904 and had taken out a patent on it, twenty-six years before Darrow claimed to have invented Monopoly. Both games had too many similarities to be just a coincidence. ……… had to be the answer.
Creativity
Lawsuits
Plagiarism
Affidavits
Research uncovered that Charles Darrow and his wife had been dinner guests in Magie’s home and had played her game after dinner. The board had a jail, public park, water and electrical ………, includinginstruction cards that were exactly the same as in the game of Monopoly.
facilities
franchises
exploitation
patents
The fact that Elizabeth Magie had two patents on her game, made the Parker Brothers very concerned about the substantial earnings they had received, and asked Darrow to sign an ……… that the game was his own creation.
record
assurance
affidavit
insurance
Before Darrow could respond to the request, Elizabeth Magie entered into ……… with Parker Brothers, who secured the rights to her patent for $500, without royalties. The popularity of the game has never ceased.
waiver
negotiations
wages
confidence
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Вопрос 1
Вы услышите диалог. Запишите в поле ответа цифру 1, 2 или3 ,соответствующую выбранному Вами варианту ответа. Вы услышите запись дважды. ПИШЕМ ЦИФРЫ ОТВЕТОВ БЕЗ ПРОБЕЛОВ В СТРОЧКУ!
1. Who bought a flat?
1) David 2) Jackie 3) Both
| 2. Who is studying to become an economist? | |
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1) David |
2) Jackie |
3) Both
3. Who thinks that property prices will stop rising?
1) David 2) Jackie 3) Simon
| 4. Who is working in banking? | |
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1) David |
2) Jackie |
3) Simon
5. Who, according to Jackie, is worrying more than her mother?
1) David 2) Simon 3) Liz
Вопрос 2
Установите соответствие между текстами A–E и рубриками 1–6. Занесите свои
ответы в таблицу. Используйте каждую цифру только один раз. В задании одна
рубрика лишняя. (Пишем цифры ответов по порядку без пробелов)
1. Events
2. Traditions
3. Literature
4. Sightseeing
5. History
6. Geography
A. Ulan-Ude is a city with a population of 435 thousand people located about 100 km east of Lake Baikal. It is the capital of the Republic of Buryatia, a major cultural, scientific, industrial centre of Eastern Siberia. Ulan-Ude has a unique historical and cultural heritage. There are more than 200 cultural heritage sites in the city: monuments of architecture and city planning, and monuments of art.
B. The Museum of Wooden Architecture and Peasant Life is one of the most visited museums in Suzdal. Here you can see rare monuments of wooden architecture of Vladimir-Suzdal land. The museum is not large, it has only 17 wooden buildings: churches, a merchant’s house, peasant houses with interiors of the peasant way of life, windmills, granaries, wells.
C. Considered one of the greatest psychologists in world prose, Fyodor Dostoevsky is perhaps best known for his work Crime and Punishment, or subsequent novels such as The Idiot and Demons. Many of his great works offer an unrivalled view of life in Tsarist Russia during the mid-to-late 19th century, shaped by the environment in which he lived and worked.
D. Larmer Tree Festival is a wonderful well-established festival in one of the most gorgeous Victorian Pleasure Gardens in the UK. Everyone is welcome here whether you are 1 or 101. Provision for kids is nothing short of excellent – rhyme times, storytelling, arts and crafts and dance workshops. Music is eclectic, activities are varied fantastic, and there is something for everyone.
E. Scotland’s shipbuilding industry became important in the 19th century, as steam-power began to replace sail power. Scottish inventors and engineers gained a reputation for being experts in marine engineering. Around 1850, the shipyards of Glasgow and Dumbarton were building half the iron steamships built in the United Kingdom. In the 1880s steel began to replace iron.
Вопрос 3
Прочитайте приведённый ниже текст. Преобразуйте, если необходимо, слова,
напечатанные заглавными буквами в конце строк, обозначенных номерами 7–12, так,чтобы они грамматически соответствовали содержанию текста. Заполните пропуски полученными словами. Каждый пропуск соответствует отдельному заданию из группы 7–12. (Пишем образованные слова в строчку через запятую, после запятой — пробел)
History of Monopoly
Have you ever played Monopoly? The board game Monopoly was
invented in the early 20th century. The __________________ version of
Monopoly was patented in 1904.
ONE
In this game players __________________ various pieces of land from
either the game bank or other players.
BUY
The game __________________ so popular because it explained laws of
economics to common people in a simple way.
BECOME
__________________ the game developed new rules and opportunities.
LATE
In modern Monopoly players can also develop __________________
pieces of land by building factories and other businesses there.
THEY
There are many kinds of Monopoly now. There is even a version which
__________________ Russian Monopoly with beautiful figures and
pictures of Russian sights.
CALL
Вопрос 4
Прочитайте текст и заполните пропуски 13–18 словами, напечатанными в правой колонке под цифрами 1–8. Каждое из этих слов может быть использовано только один раз. В ответе укажите цифры, под которыми значатся выбранные Вами слова. Два слова в этом списке 1–8 лишние.
ПИШЕМ ЦИФРЫ СЛОВ В СТРОЧКУ БЕЗ ПРОБЕЛОВ!
Measuring health and happiness
How do you measure happiness? Perhaps health is the best way because a famous doctor once said, “Happy people generally don’t get sick.” It’s also 13 ______ to measure how many people feel ill or unhealthy in a country. For example, one survey says Iceland is the ‘healthiest country in the world’ because men and women live a long time there, the air is very 14 ______ and there are more doctors available per person than anywhere 15 ______ in the world.
However, there was another survey of the happiest countries in the world and Iceland was not 16 ______ the top. The questions on this survey 17 ______: How much do you earn? How healthy are you? How safe do you feel? After visiting 155 different countries, the researchers 18 ______ that Denmark feels happier than other countries.
1. clean
2. clear
3. decided
4. discussed
5.easy
6. else
7. included
8. near
1 text
Wrigley’s chewing gum was actually developed as a premium to be given away
with other products rather than as a primary product for sale. As a teenager,
William Wrigley Jr. was working for his father in Chicago selling soap that had
been manufactured in his father’s factory. The soap was not very popular with
merchants because it was priced at five cents, and this selling price did not leave a
good profit margin for the merchants. Wrigley convinced his father to raise the
price to ten cents and to give away cheap umbrellas as a premium for the
merchants. This worked successfully, confirming Wrigley that the use of premiums
was an effective sales tool.
Wrigley then established his own company; in his company he was selling soap
as a wholesaler, giving baking soda away as a premium, and using a cookbook
to promote each deal. Over time, the baking soda and cookbook became
more popular than the soap, so Wrigley began a new operation selling baking
soda. He began hunting for a new premium item to give away with sales of
baking soda; he soon decided on chewing gum. Once again, when Wrigley
realized that demand for the premium was stronger than the demand for the
original product, he created the Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company to produce
and sell chewing gum.
Wrigley started out with two brands of gum, Vassar and Lotta Gum,
and soon introduced Juicy Fruit and Spearmint. The latter two brands grew in
popularity, while the first two were phased out. Juicy Fruit and Spearmint are two
of Wrigley’s main brands to this day.
2 text
1. It is indicated in paragraph 1 that young William was working
a) in a Chicago factory
b) as a chewing gum salesman
c) as a soap salesman
d) in his father’s factory
2. According to paragraph 1, the soap that young Wrigley was selling
a) was originally well-liked
b) was originally priced at ten cents
c) originally provided much profit for merchants
d) eventually became more popular with merchants
3. According to paragraph 2, it is NOT true that, when Wrigley first founded his own
company, he was
a) selling soap
b) selling chewing gum
c) giving away cookbooks
d) using baking soda as a premium
4. Paragraph 2 discusses that Wrigley later
a) published a cookbook
b) used chewing gum as a premium to sell baking soda
c) sold chewing gum and a cookbook
d) used baking soda as a premium to sell chewing gum
5. According to paragraph 3, the Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company did all of the following
EXCEPT
a) begin with two brands of gum
b) add new brands to the original two
c) phase out the last two brands
d) phase out the first two brands
2 text
Bigfoot is a humanlike creature reportedly living in the Pacific Northwest.
Bigfoot sightings have been noted most often in the mountainous areas of
Northern California, Oregon, and Washington in the United States. The creature
has also been spotted numerous times in British Columbia in Canada, where it is
known as Sasquatch.
The creature described by witnesses is tall by human standards, measuring 7
to 10 feet (2 to 3 meters) in height. It resembles an ape with its thick, powerful,
fur-covered arms and short, strong neck; however, its manner of walking erect is
more like that of Homo sapiens.
Although there have been hundreds of reported sightings of Bigfoot, most
experts have not seen enough evidence to be convinced of its existence. The
fact that some purported evidence has been proven fake may have served to
discredit other more credible information.
1. Which of the following best states the topic of the text?
a) Differences between Bigfoot and Sasquatch.
b) A description of Bigfoot.
c) Where Bigfoot, or Sasquatch, can be found.
d) The creature Bigfoot and its questionable existence.
2. Which of the following is NOT true about the appearance of Bigfoot?
a) Its arms and neck look like those of an ape.
b) Its arms are covered with fur.
c) It is short-necked.
d) It walks like an ape.
3.The expression Homo sapiens is closest in meaning to
a) apes
b) creatures
c) humans
d) furry animals
4. Where in the text does the author explain how knowledgeable people feel about the
existence of Bigfoot?
a) Lines 3-5
b) Lines 6-7
c) Lines 6-9
d) Lines 1-3
5. According to the text, how do experts feel about the evidence concerning Bigfoot‟s
existence ?
a) They feel certain as to its existence.
b) They are not yet certain.
c) They are sure that it does not exist.
d) They feel that all the evidence is fake.
3 text
The teddy bear is a child‟s toy, a nice soft stuffed animal suitable for cuddling. It
is, however, a toy with an interesting history behind it.
Theodore Roosevelt, or Teddy as he was commonly called, was the president of the
United States from 1901 to 1909.He was an unusually active man with varied
pastimes, one of which was hunting. One day the president was invited to take part
in a bear hunt; and as much as Teddy was President, his hosts wanted to ensure
that he caught a bear. A bear was captured, clanked over the head to knock it out,
and tied to a tree; however, Teddy, who really wanted to hunt a bear, refused to
shoot the bear and, in fact, demanded that the bear be extricated from the ropes;
that is, he demanded that the bear be set free.
The incident attracted a lot of attention among journalists. First a cartoon-drawn
by Clifford K. Berryman to make fun of this situation — appeared in the Washington
Post, and the cartoon was widely distributed and reprinted throughout the country.
Then toy manufacturers began producing a toy bear which they called “teddy bear”.
The teddy bear became the most widely recognized symbol of Roosevelt‟s
presidency.
1. According to line 1 of the text, what is a teddy bear?
a) a plaything
b) a ferocious animal
c) the president of the United States
d) a famous hunter
2. The word pastimes in line 5 could best be replaced by
a) leisure activities
b) past occurrences
c) previous jobs
d) hunting trips
3. The word extricated in paragraph 2 is close in meaning to
a) get caught
b) captured
c) twisted in
d) set free
4. The word cartoon in line 11 could best be described as
a) a newspaper article
b) a newspaper
c) a type of teddy bear
d) a drawing with a message
5. The text most likely discusses
a) history of the popular toy
b) the fun of hunting
c) one of president Roosevelt‟s pastimes
d) toy manufacturing
4 text
Probably the most recognized board game around the world is the game of
Monopoly. In this game players vie for wealth by buying, selling and renting
properties; the key to success in the game, in addition to a bit of luck, is for a
player to acquire monopolies on clusters of properties in order to force
opponents pay exorbitant rents and fees.
Although the game is published in countless languages and versions, with
foreign locations and place names appropriate to the target language adorning its
board, the beginnings of the game were considerably more humble. The game
was invented in 1933 by Charles Darrow. During the height of the great
depression, Darrow who lived in Germantown, Pennsylvania, was himself
unemployed during those difficult financial times. He set the original game not as
might be expected in his hometown of Germantown, but in Atlantic City, New
Jersey, the site of numerous pre-Depression vacations, where he walked along
the Boardwalk and visited Park place. Darrow made the first games by hand and
sold them locally until Parker Brothers purchased the rights to Monopoly in
1935 and took the first steps toward the mass production of today.
1. The first paragraph of the text discusses
a) the technique of playing Monopoly.
b) the origin and the history of the game Monopoly.
c) the reason of popularity of the game of Monopoly against other board games.
d) the game rules of Monopoly.
2. The meaning of the word exorbitant in line 5 is close to
a) low
b) excessive
c) reduced
d) fixed
3. The French version of Monopoly might possibly include a piece of property entitled
a) The Eiffel Tower
b) Atlantic City, New Jersey
c) Germantown, Pennsylvania
d) Boardwalk
4. It is implied that Darrow selected Atlantic City for Monopoly because
a) Atlantic City was larger than Germantown.
b) it brought back good memories.
c) his family came from Atlantic City.
d) the people of Germantown might have been angered if he had used
Germantown.
5. Parker Brothers is probably
a) a toy design company.
b) a real estate company.
c) a game manufacturing company.
d) a group of Charles Darrow‟s friends.
5 text
Today the most universally known style of trousers for both men and women
is jeans; these trousers are worn throughout the world on a variety of occasions.
Also called levis or denims, jeans have an interesting history. The word jeans is
derived from the name of the place where a similar style of pants developed. In
the sixteenth century, sailors from Genoa, Italy, wore a unique type of cotton
trousers. In the French language, the word for the city of Genoa and for the
people from that city is Genes; this name became attached to the specific style
of pants worn by the sailors from this city and developed into the word jeans
that today describes the descendents of the Genovese sailors‟ cotton pants.
Similar to the word jeans, the word denim is also derived from a place name.
In the seventeenth century, French tailors began making trousers out of a
specialized type of cloth that was developed in the city of Nimes, France and
was known as serge de Nimes. This name for the cloth underwent some
transformations, and it eventually developed into today‟s denim, the material
from which jeans are made and an alternative name for these popular pants.
1lThe word levis came from the name of a person rather than a place. In the
17. nineteenth century, immigrant Levi Strauss came to America and tried his hand
at selling heavy canvas to miners taking part in the hunt for gold in northern
California. Strauss intended for this canvas to be used by miners to make
heavy-duty tents. This first endeavor was a failure, but Strauss later found
success when he used the heavy canvas to make indestructible pants for the
miners. Levi then switched the fabric from brown canvas to blue denim, creating
a style of pants that long outlived him and today is referred to by his name.
1. The word unique in line 5 is closest in meaning to
a) universal
b) ordinary
c) unusual
d) common
2. All of the following are mentioned in the text about Genoa EXCEPT that it
a) was the source of the word jeans
b) is in Italy
c) has a different name in the French language
d) is a landlocked city
3. The word denim was most probably derived from
a) two French words
b) two Italian words
c) one French word and one Italian word
d) four French words
4. It can be inferred from the text that, in order to develop the pants for which he
became famous, Strauss did which of the following?
a) He studied tailoring in Nimes.
b) He used an existing type of material.
c) He experimented with brown denim.
d) He tested the pants for destructibility.
5. Where in the text does the author explain how Strauss‟ first attempt at creating a
business with canvas turned out?
a) Lines 10-12
b) Lines 14-16
c) Lines 17-18
d) Lines 19-23