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“Ordinary” was the worst word my mother could find for anything. Whenever she took me out for shopping, I found she wouldn’t take any notice of the shop assistants when they suggested that some dresses were popular. She would say, “We’re not interested in that. Haven’t you got anything a little unusual?” And then the assistants would bring out all the strange colours no one else would buy. And later she and I would argue because I wanted to be ordinary but my mother wanted to be unusual.
“I can’t stand that hairdo (发型),” she said to me when I was in a boy hairstyle, “It’s so terribly ordinary... Not ugly, not unsuitable. But ordinary ...”
“Couldn’t you please wear something else?” I asked one day when she was dressing for Parents’ Day in tight (紧贴的) trousers and a bright pink sweater.
“What’t wrong with it!”
“It’s just that I wish you’d wear something ordinary.” I said, “People won’t laugh at.”
She looked at me angrily, “Are you ashamed of your mother? If you are, Mary, I feel sorry for you.”
What did the shop assistants advise Mary’s mother to buy?
A.Something very popular. | B.Styles they have sold out of. |
C.Cheap clothes. | D.The most unusual clothes. |
When Mary had her hair cut in a boy hairstyle, her mother ____.
A.felt happy with it | B.surely disliked it |
C.told her to change it | D.thought it was unusual |
Why did Mary ask her mother to change her clothes on Parents’ Day?
A.Because her mother’s clothes were out of style. |
B.Because she didn’t like a pink sweater at all. |
C.Because she didn’t like her mother to dress that way. |
D.Because she didn’t want others to look at her mother. |
What does her mother mean by “ordinary”?
A.Unusual. | B.Ugly. | C.Common. | D.Popular. |
The underlined word “It” most likely means ____.
A.the hairdo | B.the dresser | C.the boy | D.the colour |