Levi Strauss, a young immigrant from Germany, arrived in San Francisco in 1850. California was in the middle of the Gold Rush. Thousands of men were coming to California to dig for gold. And Strauss came to sell canvas to these gold miners. Canvas is a heavy fabric. So Strauss thought the miners could use the canvas for tents.One day Strauss heard a miner complain that he couldn’t find clothes strong enough for the work he was doing. Strauss got an idea. He quickly took some of his canvas and...
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Levi Strauss, a young immigrant from Germany, arrived in San Francisco in 1850. California was in the middle of the Gold Rush. Thousands of men were coming to California to dig for gold. And Strauss came to sell canvas to these gold miners. Canvas is a heavy fabric. So Strauss thought the miners could use the canvas for tents.
One day Strauss heard a miner complain that he couldn’t find clothes strong enough for the work he was doing. Strauss got an idea. He quickly took some of his canvas and made it into pants. These pants were what the miners needed. In one day Strauss sold all the pants he had made.
Strauss wanted to improve his pants. He wanted to make them even better. He bought a fabric that was softer than canvas but just as strong. This fabric came from Nimes, a city in France, and was called serge de Nimes. The miners like this fabric. They called it “denim” from (de Nimes) and bought even more pants from Strauss.
However, denim had no color. Because of this the denim pants did not look very interesting, and they got dirty easily. To solve these problems, Strauss dyed the denim blue.
Strauss continued to improve his jeans. Today the company he started is known around the world. And Jeans are considered not just practical but very fashionable as well.
True or False?
1. Levi Strauss was the first person to make blue jeans.
2. Blue jeans got dirty easily.
3. Strauss made his first jeans from a fabric called serge de Nimes.
4. Nimes is a city in France.
Questions
5. What could be the best title of the passage
A. A Young Immigrant From Germany B. The History of Blue Jean
C. Serge de Nimes D. The Gold Rush
6. Why did Levi Strauss come to California?
A. to dig for gold B. to sell pants C. to buy denim D. to sell canvas
Refer
Jack London was (1) born in San Francisco, California, in 1876. He (2) took a high place in American literature at the beginning of the twentieth (3) century At that time, the library shelves and bookshops of America were already (4) full of books by (5) famous writers. But Jack London's stories were new, his characters were not (6) like the ones in the books of those writers, and the pictures he (7) painted were not the same (8) as their pictures.
The characters in Jack London's books live a different life, a life of danger. In his stories, the heroes are afraid (9) of nothing and nothing can (10) stop them. People in his books never give up (11) hope , they never stop (12) fighting
For life even when the end of life (13) seems very near. That is the (14) lesson for US to apply in everything we want and everything we do. If we do not (15) lose hope, we must and will win.