II. READING COMPREHENSION

2.1. Read the text below and decide which answer A, B, C, or D fits each space.

Clothes can tell a lot ___(1)___ a person. Some people like very colorful clothes because they want everyone ___(2)___ at them and they want to be the center of things. ___(3)___ people like to wear nice clothes, but their clothes are not ___(4)___ or fancy. They do not like people ___(5)___ at them. Clothes today are very different ___(6)___ the clothes of the 1800s.
One difference is the way they look. For example, in the 1800s, all women ___(7)___ dress.
The dresses all had long skirts. But today, women do not always wear dresses with skirts. Sometimes they wear short skirts. Sometimes they wear pants. Another difference between 1800 and today is the ___(8)___. In the 1800s, clothes were made ___(9)___ natural kinds of cloth. They were from cotton, wool, silk or linen. But today, there are ___(10)___ kinds of manmade cloth. A lot of clothes are now made from nylon, rayon or polyester.