Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks.
Jeans are very popular with ___(1)___ people all over the world. Some people say that jeans are the “uniform” of youth. But they haven’t always been popular. The story of jeans ___(2)___ almost two hundred years ago. People in Genoa, Italy made pants. The cloth made in Genoa was ___(3)___ “jeanos”. The pants were called “jeans”. In 1850, a salesman in California began selling pants made of canvas. His name was Levi Strauss. Because they were so strong, “Levi’s pants” became ___(4)___ with gold miners, fanners and cowboys. Six years later Levis began making his pants with blue cotton cloth called denim. Soon after, factory ___(5)___ in the US and Europe began wearing jeans. Young people usually didn’t wear them.