公共英语考试

【单选题】Blue jeans are probably the single most representative article ofAmerican clothing．They were originally 26 by JacobDavis，a tailor from Nevada， 27 ，together with dry-goods sales man Levi Strauss，patented the idea as 28 clothing for miners in l873．Blue jeans，also 29 as work clothing，spread among workers of all kinds in the late l9th and early 20th centuries， 30 among cowboys，farmers，loggers，and rail road workers．During the 1950s， 31 MarionBrando and JamesDean made blue jeans 32 by wearing them in movies，and jeans be。came part of the 33 of teenagers’rebelling．In the l960sand 1970s，this fashion statement exploded as LevI’s 34 a fundamental part of the youth 35 focused on both civil rights and antiwar protests． 36 the late1970s，almost everyone in the United States wore blue jeans, 37 youths all around the world sought after them． 38 designers began to create more complicated 39 of blue jeans and to 40 their fit，jeans began to express theAmerican emphasis 41 informality and the importance of detail．By stressing the right label and 42 the right look，blue jeans， 43 their worker origins，satirically。Represented the status consciousness ofAmerican fashion and the 44 to get close to the 45 fashion．In 1971，Levi Strauss＆Co．received theCoty FashionCritics’Award，the highest award of theAmerican fashion industry．
A、Before
B．Since

C、By
D．Till

网考网参考答案：C
网考网解析：
本题考查介词词义辨析。before在…之前；since自从…开始；by截止到…；till直到…。 　　根据后文的时间状语以及“美国几乎所有人都穿蓝色牛仔裤”，可推知此处是说“截止到某一个时间点为止”，故选c。 document.getElementById("warp").style.display="none"; document.getElementById("content").style.display="block"; 查看试题解析出处>>