Passage 1

Questions I to 5 are based on thefollowing passage.

"My favorite pair ofjeans has finally blown a hole in the knee! I'm so excited to throw them out,clear my plans for the day, and head to the mall to shop for a new pair ofjeans!" Said no one ever.

Shopping for a pair of jeanswas so simple when I was younger. I grabbed my size and went directly to thecash register. But somewhere along the line it got so much more complicated.

Last weekend I went to theMall of America in search of a new pair of jeans. And that is when my ragereached new heights. I've had trouble finding the perfect pair of jeans in thepast, but never quite like this. This was denim(牛仔布) nightmare.

I went to nine differentstores and probably tried on thousands of different pairs. Skinny jeans, flarejeans, boyfriend fit, low rise, bell-bottom, high waisted-even the dreaded slimfit--and still nothing was working.

And don't even get mestarted on the sizing situation. I feel like every store I walk into I have adifferent jean size. There's waist sizing, which is 24 through 32, and thenthere's U.S. sizing, which is double zero through 14. And that doesn't eveninclude length. It's a lot to take in.

And it's not just the denim,it's everything that comes along with trying on denim. It's the squeezing ofskin, the horrific dressing room lighting and the exhausting dance you have todo every time you're trying to get the jeans over your bottom.

In a determined attempt tosave this horrible experience of shopping endless hours for denim, I made myway to the Smith's store. I usually wouldn't walk into Smith's because I don'tlike to spend more than $50 on a pair of jeans, but I had reached my breakingpoint. After all, Smith's is one of good designers of blue jeans. And they'vebeen making jeans for decades. So, I think they have a pretty good grip on whatgreat denim involves.

Unfortunately, still nothing.My spirit was broken. Maybe the perfect pair of blue jeans just isn't in thecards for me. With that being said, I've come to the conclusion that I'm goingto live in leggings(女式紧身裤) for the rest of my life.

 
What does the author imply in paragraph 1?