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We didn’t have a lot of money when I was little, so Mum had to __41__my fringe(刘海) herself. When we __42__ the old photos, she says she did well.

“One side always ended up shorter than the other, so I __43__ to even things up(使两边平等),” she says.

When I point out that her idea of evening things up made my head look __44__, we both Burst out __45__. Sometimes my fringe would end up so __46__on my forehead that it didn’t need cutting for months.

__47__ my mother would get it more or less right, but this then__48__ me the nickname of Bully Beef. At the time, all the children were reading a book. In the__49__there was a character called Bully Beef. He had a fringe, which looked like his mother had put a bowl on his __50__ and then cut round it. As Bully Beef wasn’t a very nice __51__and I had long hair, I thought the nickname was rather __52__.

When I was a teenager, as a treat, my mother took me to a hair salon, __53__ they advised me to__54__ my fringe. “Her forehead is too big. It will look __55__ if her fringe is cut.” The hairdresser’s __56 __were a disaster for a teenager. But I wasn’t the __57 __ one to come under attack. “Hmm,” he said, looking at my fringe, “it looks __58 __ someone has attacked her fringe with a knife and fork.”

My mother __59 __ her anger and said, “Oh, does it?” Still, it made her think that perhaps it wasn’t such a good idea for her to cut my fringe any more, and so I became a(n) __60 __ customer at the hairdresser’s.

41. A. clean B repair C. cut D. decorate

42. A. pick up B. work out C. look through D. write down

43. A. wished B. tried C. decided D. chose

44. A. strange B. tired C. absent D. far

45. A. crying B. laughing C. quarrelling D. smiling

46. A. long B. wide C. high D. deep

47. A. Rarely B. Perfectly C. Possibly D. Occasionally

48. A. accepted B. owned C. received D. earned

49. A. magazine B. book C. newspaper D. poster

50. A. head B. arm C. face D. leg

51. A. picture B. memory C. character D. partner

52. A. unfamiliar B. unfair C. unlucky D. unsafe