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     For over one hundred and fifty years, Americans of all social classes have worn blue jeans. 1_____

Whether they are worn for work or for fashion today. Strauss' invention continues to be popular not only

among Americans but also among people around the world.

     Levi Strauss was born in Germany in 1829. 2_____ He grew up in Kentucky before moving to New

York in 1847. Before becoming an American citizen and moving to the West in 1853, Strauss worked in his

brother's dry goods business. This gave him a chance to produce his famous invention. After the gold rush

of 1949, Strauss decided to move to the West to seek his fortunes.

     Strauss did not want to be a person who searched an area for minerals. Instead, he knew he could make

a good living by selling supplies to the miners. At first, he planned to sell sewing supplies and cloth. 3_____

When he heard miners complaining that their clothes were easily broken or they usually tore their pockets

during mining, he decided to use a special fabric to make pants for the miners. These pants proved so popular

that he quickly ran out of materials to make more.

     In 1873, Strauss received a letter from a Jewish tailor named Jacob Davis who had invented a process of

connecting pockets with copper rivets (铆钉). This made the pants last a long time. Because Davis did not have

the money to patent his idea, he offered to share it with Strauss if Strauss would agree to pay for the patent.

4_____.

     By the time Strauss died in 1902, he had made a great contribution to American fashion. 

     5_____ The business has been growing ever since and Levi Strauss' company is now one of the largest

clothing companies in the world.

A. As a young boy, he moved with his family to the United States.

B. Nobody knew what kind of material was suitable.

C. He did and Levi jeans have been made with metal rivets ever since.

D. However, he did not get much business for those products.

E. He also made a great contribution to America's clothing industry.

F. Since they were invented by Levi Strauss, they have become a symbol of American consumer culture.

G. As the business grew, Strauss got much money from it.

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      Doctor Seuss was born in 1904. By the middle 1950s, he had  
 become one of the best-loved and most successful children's      
 book writers in the world. His books are very popular with      
 young readers. They enjoy the invented words and the pictures    
 of unusual funny animals and plants.                            
      In 1954, life magazine published a report about school      
 children who could not read. The report said many children's    
 books were not interesting. Doctor Seuss strongly hoped to help  
 children and decided to write books that were interesting and   
 easy to read. He used words with the same ending sound, like fish and wish. He did not receive training
 in art. Yet, he drew the pictures for most of his books.
      In 1957, Dr. Seuss wrote The Cat in the Hat. He used less than 230 words to write the book and
 even a six-year-old should be able to read it. It was a fun story and easy to read. Children loved it. Their
 parents loved it, too. Today it is still one of the stories they like best. The success of The Cat in the Hat
 made him want to write more books for children. In 1960, he wrote a book using less than fifty words.
 The book is called Green Eggs and Ham.
      In 1984, Doctor Seuss won a Pulitzer Prize (普利策奖). He was honored for the education and
 enjoyment his books provided American children and their parents.
      He died at the age of 87, but his influence remains. Millions of his books have been sold worldwide.
 People say his books helped change the way American children learned to read. Yet, his books are
 loved by people of all ages. Doctor Seuss once said, "I do not write for children. I write for people.
1. Doctor Seuss learned from the magazine that _____.
A. children wanted to learn to write
B. a report for children was wanted
C. many children's books were interesting
D. some school children were not interested in reading.
2. People like his books because the books _____.
A. are cheap and easy to get
B. were written in different languages
C. are easy and interesting to read
D. were written with invented words
3. He wrote the book The Cat in the Hat at the age of _____.
A. 50
B. 53
C. 56
D. 87
4. Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?
A. Doctor Seuss wrote Green Eggs and Ham with over 230 words.
B. Doctor Seuss wrote books only for children in the United States.
C. The Cat in the Hat was written only for six-year-old children.
D. His books provided education and enjoyment for Americans.
5. From the text we know that Doctor Seuss _____.
A. won a Pulitzer Prize soon after his death
B. sold millions of his books himself worldwide
C. changed American children's way of reading
D. wrote the largest number of books in the world
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