填空题

I can remember times when, like children, my brothers and I 76.______
would all point at one another when asking who was to blame 77.______
for wrong deeds. Unfortunately, it usually resulted in all three of 78.______
us getting beatings. Once, however, I didn’t manage to save myself 79.______
from a beating by telling my mother I had only one good hairbrush, 80.______
as she’d broken all other ones in the beatings. She thought she had 81.______
better not to use her last hairbrush and, instead, gave me a warning. 82.______
The excuses of children are not always successfully, but 83.______
now and then there is one that it will cause a parent to forgive 84.______
them. Maybe this is because children keep thinking them up. 85.______