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Passage 1 In 1848, gold was discovered in California; from all over the nation, thousands of young men set out for California. People called this the time of the Gold Rush. A gold miner came into a city looking for a pair of pants. He wanted pants strong enough to stand up to the rough work of mining. He met a young man named Levi, who sold heavy cloth for tents and wagon tops. They asked a tailor to use heavy cloth for their pants. Then Levi went into the business of making work pants. He asked his brothers to send him some strong blue cotton cloth called denim (斜纹粗棉布). With this blue denim cloth, Levi started making the kind of pants we call blue jeans today. They were sewed up in the same way as other pants. In 1860, a miner said that the pockets werent strong enough to hold the pieces of gold he found. The pockets kept falling off the pants. The cloth was all right. It was the thread that wasnt strong enough. So Levi used rivets (铆钉) to attach the pockets onto the pants. Cowboys needed tough pants, too. They liked their pants to fit tightly. But the rivets marked the cowboys saddles. So Levi covered the rivets with cloth. Then everybody was happy. 1. This article as a whole is about ______A____________. A. how people got blue jeans B. the Gold Rush in California C. How blue jeans are made D. The kind of pants cowboys wear 2. While not stated in the article, you can tell that ________B__________. A. everybody who went to California got a lot of gold B. Levi found riches in the gold fields C. Levi sold more jeans to cowboys than to gold miners D. Levi made more money than many gold miners 3. The word this in the last sentence of the first paragraph refers to ___C________. A. California B. the discovery of gold C. many people looking for gold D. the nation at this time 4. Levi used strong blue cotton cloth to make pants because ____C_____. A. gold miners liked the blue color B. this was the only cloth he had C. miners wanted