Years ago, I lived in a building in a large city. The building next door was only a few feet away from mine. There was a woman who lived there, whom I had never met, yet I could see her seated by her window each afternoon, sewing or reading.
After several months had gone by, I began to notice that her window was dirty. Everything was unclear through the dirty window. I would say to myself, "I wonder why that woman doesn't wash her window. It really looks terrible."
One bright morning I decided to clean my flat, including washing the window on the inside.
Late in the afternoon when I finished the cleaning, I sat down by the window with a cup of coffee for a rest. What a surprise! Across the way, the woman sitting by her window was clearly visible. Her window was clean!
Then it dawned on me. I had been criticizing (����) her dirty window, but all the time I was watching hers through my own dirty window.
That was quite an important lesson for me. How often had I looked at and criticized others through the dirty window of my heart, through my own shortcomings?
Since then, whenever I wanted to judge (����) someone, I asked myself first, "Am I looking at him through my own dirty window?"
Then I try to clean the window of my own world so that I may see the world about me more clearly.
1.The writer couldn't see everything clearly through the window because_____.
A. the woman's window was dirty
B. the writer's window was dirty
C. the woman lived nearby
D. the writer was near-sighted
2.The writer was surprised that_____.
A. the woman was sitting by her window
B. the woman's window was clean
C. the woman did cleaning in the afternoon
D. the woman's window was still terrible
3.The underlined sentence "It dawned on me" probably means "____".
A. I began to understand it B. it cheered me up
C. I knew it grew light D. it began to get dark
4.It's clear that _____.
A. the writer had never met the woman before
B. the writer often washed the window
C. they both worked as cleaner
D. they lived in a small town
5.From the passage, we can learn ______.
A. one shouldn't criticize others very often
B. one should often make his windows clean
C. one must judge himself before he judges others
D. one must look at others through his dirty windows
According to an old story, a farmer once found that a bag of corn had been stolen from his house. He went to the judge and told him about his loss. The judge ordered all the people of the farm to come before him. He took a number of sticks of equal length and gave one stick to each man.
He then said, “Come before me again tomorrow. I shall then know which of you is the thief because the stick given to the thief will be one inch longer than the others.”
The thief was afraid of being found out, and so he cut an inch off his stick. The next day the thief’s stick was found to be one inch shorter than any of the others. In this way the thief was found out, and was at once taken away to prison.
1.The judge gave each man a stick _______.
A. to change back the farmer’s corn
B. to beat the thief
C. as a tool to find out the thief
D. so as to play a game together
2.Since the thief cut the stick short, ________.
A. he was found out
B. the judge couldn’t catch him
C. his stick had an equal length with the others’
D. his stick wouldn’t be any longer
3.The wise way the judge found out the thief in the end was to make ______.
A. the thief cut the stick off
B. the thief cut an inch off the stick
C. the stick grow an inch longer
D. the other’s sticks would become one inch shorter
An old friend from abroad（国外）__16__ I wanted to stay with telephoned me from the airport to tell me that he had arrived. I was still in the __17__, but I had done something to get ready for his coming. After explaining where my new room was, I told him __18__ I had left the key under the doormat（门垫）. __19__ I would be home rather __20_, I asked him to go into the kitchen and __21__ himself to some food and drink.
Two hours later, my friend telephoned me from the __22__. At the moment, he said __23__ was __24__ the radio __25__ having a truly wonderful meal. He had cooked two eggs and helped himself __26__ some __27__ chicken from the refrigerator. Now, he said, he was drinking a glass of milk __28__ he hoped I would __29__ him. When I asked him if he had __30__ the room without __31__, he answered that he had __32_ been able to find the key under the doormat. As the living-room window just __33__ the apple tree had been left _34__, he had climbed in. I listened to all this in __35__. There in no apple tree in front of my living-room. There is one in front of my neighbor’s.
1.A. what B. as C. which D. whom
2.A. room B. office C. station D. airport
3.A. that B. where C. why D. how
4.A. For B. When C. So D. As
5.A. late B. soon C. on time D. early
6.A. eat B. help C. cook D. make
7.A. airport B. station C. bus stop D. living-room
8.A. I B. he C. she D. my boss
9.A. repairing B. buying C. listening to D. hearing
10.A. after B. before C. as D. while
11.A. to B. with C. for D. from
12.A. cold B. hot C. new D. warm
13.A. and B. but C. because D. though
14.A. help B. see C. join D. join in
15.A. got B. arrived C. reached D. came
16.A. joy B. regret C. thinking D. difficulty
17.A. also B. always C. not D. none
18.A. in front of B. near C. far away from D. around
19.A. open B. dirty C. closed D. shut
20.A. silence B. surprise C. the room D. the office
After working for two hours, I found impossible to complete the paper in time.
A. me B. this C. that D. it
Although ________ to stop, he kept on working
A. tell B. telling C. having told D. told
Was_______ John’s quick action and knowledge of first aid ________ saved her life?
A. it, which B. that, what C. it, that D. it,/
