Comprehension Passage

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Read the passage and then answer the questions

Many people, especially the young ones, do not really understand or even imagine how people in the past stayed without clothes on them or just had pieces of animal hides and skins barely covering their bodies.

Nowadays, clothes are made in all styles and fashions for all people, young and old. There are suits, vitenge, scarfs, headgears and ties. Others wear necklaces, bracelets, bangles, earrings and others. Apart from clothing, there are fashion shows which are organized where different designers bring models who wear their styles and compete in front of judges and spectators.

  1. Question 1

    1 mark

    What is unimaginable to many people? How

    A. People lived in the past

    B. Old people made clothes in the past

    C. Clothes were made in the past

    D. People stayed without clothes in the past

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    D. People stayed without clothes in the past

  2. Question 2

    1 mark

    What was used in the past as clothes?

    A. Leaves and grass

    B. Animal hides and skins

    C. Pieces of papers

    D. Pieces of animals

    (1 mark)

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  3. Question 3

    1 mark

    Who bring models to fashion shows?

    A. Spectators

    B. Competitors

    C. Designers

    D. Judges

    (1 mark)

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