READ THE TEXT AND ANSWER THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS
Fashion: The Art of the Body
A. The enormous and fascinating variety of clothing may express a person's status or social position. Several hundred years ago in Europe, Japan, and China, there were many highly detailed sumptuary laws- that is, strict regulations concerning how each social class could dress. In Europe, for example, only royal families could wear fur, purple silk, or gold cloth. In Japan, a farmer could breed silkworms, but he couldn't wear silk. In many societies, a lack of clothing indicated an absence of status. In ancient Egypt, for instance, children- who had no social status-wore no clothes until they were about twelve. These days, in most societies (especially in the West), rank or status is exhibited through regulation of dress only in the military, where the appearance or absence of certain metal buttons or stars signifies the dividing line between ranks. With the exception of the military, the divisions between different classes of society are becoming less clear.
The clientele of a Paris cafe, for example, might include both working-class people and members of the highest society, but how can one tell the difference when everyone is wearing denim jeans?
1. What is the topic of Paragraph A?  

• A. the military
• B. sumptuary laws
• C. uniforms
• D. status

2. What details about the topic does the paragraph provide? (Choose more than one answer) 
 A. Strict laws in some countries used to regulate what people of each social class could wear

 B. Rich people wear more beautiful clothing than poor people do

 C. In many societies, the absence of clothing indicated and absence of status.

 D. Today, the divisions between social classes are becoming less clear from the clothing that people wear.

3. What do the answers to numbers 1 and 2 have in common? That is, what is the main idea of Paragraph A? 

• A. Today, the differences between various social classes can be seen only in military uniforms
• B. Laws used to regulate how people could dress
• C. Clothing (or its absence) has usually indieated status or rank, but this is less true in today's world
• D. Clothing has been worn for different reasons since the beginning of history