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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?

2. When Mary had her hair cut in a boy hairstyle, her mother ____.

3. Why did Mary ask her mother to change her clothes on Parents’ Day?

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

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

^{—                                       ?}

^{—She is cooking．}

^{A．Where is her mother doing                                     B．Where is her mother from}

^{C．What is her mother doing                                                        D．What does her mother do}

What does her mother do? ________.

1. A.
   She is working.
2. B.
   She is over there.
3. C.
   She is a worker
4. D.
   She is forty.