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I'm simple when it comes to clothes.I never wear skirts or shorts which end above my knees.That is my 1 .
The other day, I went shopping with my mother.At a shop, I saw a fashionable 2 , too short to cover the knees, specially designed for young girls.It looked like something one of those 3 schoolgirls would wear.
The skirt cost $10.I 4 my purse, and I had enough money.I 5 walking into school and my friends' jaw dropping.Boys would ask me out, and it would make me 6 .Then I showed it to my mother.She got very 7 but said it was my decision.I could buy it-no, I should buy it.
So, I went into the 8 room to try it on.I was so sure that the skirt would 9 me, somehow making me not what I was 10 what I wished to be.I took my jeans off and put he skirt on.I looked in the 11 .There I was-a funny girl in a superman T-shirt and sports shoes.My glasses fogged(变得模糊)up as I started to 12 .
The skirt did not change me anyway. 13 it fit well and might make me look 14 in the eyes of today's world, it was not me.I am not a girl who 15 cool clothes just to fit in.
I took the skirt off and 16 my own jeans.My mom knocked on the 17 .“Emily, are you okay?” she asked.
I 18 my tears away and said, “I'm fine.” When I looked in the mirror 19 , I saw a beautiful slim girl with old-fashioned glasses and a ponytail(马尾辫).I knew for sure it was the 20 me.