Read the following passage, then choose the correct answer
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 saleman 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, farmers 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.
Read the passage and circle the best answer to each of the following questions about it
Almost a hundred thousand people were killed and half a million homes destroyed as a result of an earthquake in Tokyo in 1923. The earthquake began a minute before the noon when the inhabitants of Tokyo were cooking their midday meals. Thousands of stoves were overturned as soon as the earth began to shake. As a result, small fires broke out everywhere and quickly spread. The fire engines were prevented from going to help because many of the roads had cracked open. It was impossible to use fire fighting equipment as most of the water pipes had burst. Consequently, over ninety percent of the damage caused by fire rather than by the collapse of the buildings.
How many people were killed in the earthquake in Tokyo in 1923?
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