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  3. Blue jeans are probably the single most representative article of American clothing. They were originally【C1】______by Jacob Davi

Blue jeans are probably the single most representative article of American clothing. They were originally【C1】______by Jacob Davi

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问题     Blue jeans are probably the single most representative article of American clothing. They were originally【C1】______by Jacob Davis, a tailor from Nevada, 【C2】______, together with dry-goods sales-man Levi Strauss, patented the idea as【C3】______clothing for miners in 1873. Blue jeans, also【C4】______as work clothing, spread among workers of all kinds in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, 【C5】______among cowboys, farmers, loggers, and railroad workers. During the 1950s, 【C6】______Malion Brando and James Dean made blue jeans【C7】______by wearing them movies, and jeans be- came part of the【C8】______of teenagers’ rebelling. In the 1960s and 1970s, this fashion statement exploded as Levi’s【C9】______a fundamental part of the youth【C10】______focused on both civil rights and antiwar protests. 【C11】______the late 1970s, almost everyone in the United States wore blue jeans, 【C12】______youths all around the world sought after them. 【C13】______designers began to create more complicated【C14】______of blue jeans and to【C15】______their fit. jeans began to express the American emphasis【C16】______informality and the importance of detail. By stressing the right label and【C17】______the right look, blue jeans, 【C18】______their worker origins, satirically represented the status consciousness of Americanfashion and the【C19】______to get close to the【C20】______fashion. In 1971, Levi Strauss & Co. received the Coty Fashion Critics’ Award, the highest award of the American fashion industry.
【C18】
选项 A、besides
B、despite
C、except
D、from
答案B
解析 本题考查介词词义辨析。besides除…之外；despite尽管；except不包括…；from来自…。由前半句的“起源于工人阶层”以及后文的“代表了美国当代的时尚意识”可推知，前后有一个反差存在，因此此处表示“尽管起源于工人阶层”，故选B。
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