“Ordinary” was the worst word my mother could find for anything. I remember her taking me shopping and taking no notice of the shop assistants when they suggested that some dress or pair of shoes was very popular—“we’ve sold fifty already this week”. That was all she needed to hear.
“No”, she would say, “we’ve not interested in that. Haven’t you got something a little more unusual?” And then the assistant would bring out all the strange colors 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, when I went to the hairdresser with my friend and came back with a boy haircut, “It is 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-fitting bullfighter’s pants and a bright pink sweater.
“What’s wrong with what I’m wearing?”
“It’s just that I wish you’d wear something ordinary,” I said “something that people won’t laugh at.”
She looked at me angrily and then said, “Are you ashamed of your own mother? If you are, Isadora, I feel sorry for you. I really do.”
41.
What did the shop assistants expect Isadora’s mother to buy?A.Something very popular. | B.Styles they had sold out of. |
C.Clothes that were cheap. | D.The most unusual clothes. |
42.
When Isadora 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 children |
43.
Why did Isadora 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. |
44.
According to the passage, we know that Isadora’s mother must be very ________.A.popular | B.interesting |
C.kind-hearted | D.confident |
45.
The underlined world “It” in this passage most likely means ________.A.the hairdo | B.the dresser |
C.the boy | D.the friend |