Years ago, I lived in a building in a large city. The building next to ours was only a few feet away from mine. There was a woman who lived there and whom I had never met, yet I could see her seated by her window each afternoon, sewing (縫紉) and 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, “Why doesn’t that woman clean her window? It really looks terrible.”
One bright morning I decided to clean my apartment, including cleaning the window.
Late in the afternoon 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 seen. 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 (缺點) ?
From then on, whenever I want to judge (判斷) someone, I ask 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 can see others’ world more clearly.
小題1: The writer couldn’t see anything clearly through the window because ________ .
| A．the woman’s window was dirty | B．the writer’s window was dirty |
| C．the woman lived far away | D．the writer was near-sighted |
小題2: After the writer finished the cleaning, he was surprised to find that ________ .
| A．the woman was sitting by her window | B．the woman’s window was still terrible |
| C．the woman was cleaning her window | D．the woman’s window was clean |
小題3: The underlined part “it dawned on me ” probably means “________ ”.
| A．I began to understand it | B．it cheered me up |
| C．I could see myself through the window | D．it began to get light |
小題4: From the passage we know that ________ .
| A．both the woman and the writer lived in a small town | B．the writer often cleaned his window |
| C．both the woman and the writer worked as cleaners | D．the writer never met the woman |
小題5:From the passage we can learn that ________ .
| A．one shouldn’t criticize others very often |
| B．one should often keep his windows clean |
| C．one should judge himself before he judges others |
| D．one should look at others through his dirty window |
