Clean jeans that wash away pollution - Module 9

C1 Advanced · Open Cloze · Advanced Expert Student's Resource Book, Pearson Education

For questions 1–8, read the text below and think of the word which best fits each gap. Use only one word in each gap. There is an example at the beginning.

An unusual collaboration (0) ___ chemists and fashion experts has produced pollution-busting clothes, which are (1) ___ of cleaning up urban air as people walk around. The researchers produced prototype jeans in (2) ___ the denim was laden with nanoparticles of titanium dioxide. These particles catalyse the destruction of nitrogen oxides, the main cause of low level urban pollution. The technology is not new, but the application is. Catalytic clothing, (3) ___ it's known, was first exhibited at science and fashion shows, with the particles sprayed onto the denim. In (4) ___ to bring the idea to a mass market, scientists came (5) ___ with a laundry additive to add the titanium in a domestic washing machine. This means that there's now a good chance of (6) ___ a real difference to air quality. Clothes need only be washed once with the laundry product because the unobtrusive nanoparticles grip tightly on to fabric fibres (7) ___ affecting the look or feel of the clothing. (8) ___ best suited to denim and other cottons, they also work with other materials.

Clean jeans that wash away pollution

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