Matching headings test 1

 
 
 
TEST 11 
Questions 1-7. Match the following headings (A-H) to the texts (Q1-Q7). 
Note: There is one extra heading which you do not need to use.
 
 
 
HEADINGS: 
A) Not extreme any more 
B) Both fashionable and protective 
C) The history of extreme fashion 
D) The way to protest 
E) Wear them any way you like 
F) The most democratic clothes 
G) For any activity 
H) Living in the world of music 
Q1. 
They hide baldness and bad haircuts. They’re ‘one size fits all’ and they look good on anybody. They are 
baseball caps. They appeared in the USA and became the fashion accessory during the sports-crazy 90s. 
But you don’t have to be a sports fan to wear a baseball cap. All kinds of people wear them — from truck 
drivers to film stars to housewives. Rappers wear them sideways. School boys wear them backwards. It 
doesn’t matter whether you wear them forwards, backwards or sideways. The most important thing is that 
baseball caps look cool. They are worn by people of all ages and lifestyles. And still they are as American 
as hot dogs and apple pie! 
Q2. 
Nike trainers first appeared at the 1972 Olympics and quickly became N° 1 footwear all over the world and 
not only in the world of sports, though they had to change a lot. During the 90s, the simple trainer was 
updated with extra-thick soles. Dance music fans needed comfortable shoes for all-night dancing, but 
traditional trainers weren’t fashionable enough. The new thick-soled trainers were both comfortable and 
cool. For years we’ve been told that we can run faster, jump higher and play better with the right trainers. 
But these days most people who wear trainers are more interested in fashion than sport. Serious trainer fans 
may have twenty or thirty pairs. 
Q3. 
It’s hard to believe that the T-shirt was once just a plain white undergarment. In the early 1900s, they were 
worn by sailors in the American navy under the uniforms. Over the next few decades more people began to 
wear them, but it was Hollywood that made the T-shirt such a popular thing to wear. In 1951, film 
audiences were shocked and impressed by the sight of Marlon Brando’s muscles under his tight T-shirt in 
A Streetcar Named Desire. Then, when James Dean wore a T-shirt in the 1955 film Rebel Without a 
Cause, T-shirts suddenly became very cool. Young people across America started wearing T-shirts as a 
symbol of their own rebellious feelings. Of course, there’s nothing rebellious about wearing a T-shirt now. 
People of all ages and from all walks of life wear them. And these days it is OK to wear a T-shirt almost 
anywhere and anytime. 

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