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What to wear?

Where we live (0) .. has.. a lot to do with the kinds of clothes we wear. Different people around the world wear (1) ………….. clothes and we can often guess where a person might be from simply from what they are wearing. People (2) ………….. live in cold climates need to keep warm. Inuits from Greenland and Northern Canada for example, wear clothes (3) …………. from animal skins. They need to wear fur trousers, mittens and jackets to protect themselves from the cold. People from  hot countries (4) …………. the other hand, wear clothes to keep cool. Africans and Arabs (5)…………… in the Sahara wear long, light-weight, loose robes to stay cool in the hot sun.

(6) …………………. addition to the weather, there are many other factors that influence what we wear. For example, people decorate (7) …………… in brightly coloured clothes and with different objects to special occasions, to tell other people what group or tribe they belong to, or simply to (8) …………….. good. Also, people in certain (9) …………….. wear clothes that will identify them to others. Police officers, soldiers, firefighters and nurses the world over wear uniforms so (10) ………….. everyone can recognise them, and many children wear a uniform to school.

So, all around the world, clothes seem to be an important part of our lives no matter where we live. They (11) ……..  us warm or cool, and whether we like it or (12) ………….. , they reveal a lot about who we are.

klucz:

1. different

2. who

3. made

4. on

5. living

6. in

7. themselves

8. look

9. professions

10. that

11. keep

12. not

źródło: fce use of English 1, Virginia Evans