会计专业学位外语考试机考模拟题及参考答案第二部分

下载后可任意编辑 会计专业学位外语部分机考模拟题及参考答案 ( 第二部分) 阅读理解六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 weren’t strong enough to hold the pieces of gold he found. The pockets kept pulling loose from the pants. The cloth was all right. It was the thread that wasn’t strong enough. So Levi used rivets(铆钉) 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. how people got blue jeans b the gold rush 下载后可任意编辑c denim, rivets and blue jeans d cowboys and blue jeans 2 while not stated in the article, you can tell that A. everybody who went to California got a lot of gold B Levi found riches in the gold fieldsC Levi made more money than many gold minersD Levi sold more jeans to cowboys than to gold miners3 the word this in the first paragraph, last sentence...