• For questions 1 - 6, read the text below and decide which answer (A, B, C, or D): ║ FASHION Fashion is often seen as a modern phenomenon, entirely (1) .... upon nineteenth- and twentieth­century capitalism for its development. Most historians of fashion are at (2) .... to point out, though, that fashion, at least in the (3) .... of style and design, has a very long history. They often (4) .... the rise of the market and mercantile trade in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries as their starting point. As societies have developed in complexity, populations have expanded, and multiple technologies for producing an increasing variety of clothing and physical adornment have been discovered, so the meanings attached to dress have also increased in their complexity and significance. Consequently, it is difficult to say with any (5) .... of certainty today what any item of clothing or adornment actually means. For example, a man's suit, (6) .... an indicator of the most extreme uniformity, actually conveys very different meanings in different contexts and to different people. 1, A. responsible B. subject C. conditional D. dependent 2, A. effort B. pains C. agony D. trouble 3, A. scale B. frame C. sense D. aspect 4, A. take B. to get C. put D. make 5, A. ratio B. element C. degree D. shadow 6, A. definitely B. supposedly C. evidently D. obviously