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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 (發型),” 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 (緊貼的) 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.”

1.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.

2. 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

3. 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.

4. What does her mother mean by “ordinary”?

A．Unusual.

B．Ugly.

C．Common.

D．Popular.

5. The underlined word “It” most likely means ____.

A．the hairdo

B．the dresser

C．the boy

D．the colour

 

Answer 1

【答案】

1.A

2.B

3.C

4.C

5.A

【解析】

1.根據短文第一段店員建議他媽媽買流行的服裝,故選A

2.由第二段“I can’t stand that hairdo (發型),”可知他媽媽根本不喜歡這種發型

3.由第三段第一句“Couldn’t you please wear something else?”可知他不喜歡吃他媽媽的衣服

4.根據段意可知ordinary普通的

5.根據短文理解可知it指的是發型