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"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're 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 haircut," she said, when I went to the hairdresser with my friend and
came back with a boy haircut, "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-fitting bullfighter's
pants and a bright pink sweater. "What's wrong with what I'm wearing? What wasn't wrong with it!" "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."
1. What did the shop assistants expect Isadora's mother to buy?
A. Something very popular.
B. Styles they had sold out.
C. Clothes that were cheap.
2. 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
3. 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
4. According to the passage, we know that Isadora's mother must be very _____.
A. popular
B. interesting
C. confident
5. The underlined word "It" in this passage most likely means _____.
A. the hairdo
B. the dresser
C. the boy
