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 every afternoon, sewing or reading.

As 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 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 (批評) 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 (評判) 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.Why couldn’t the writer see everything clearly through the window?

A. Because the woman’s window was dirty.

B. Because the writer’s window was dirty.

C. Because the woman lived nearby.

D. Because 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.What can we learn from the passage?

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.

1.B 2.B 3.A 4.C 【解析】試題本文是一篇哲理小品，作者通過因透過自己臟兮兮的窗戶沒能準確看清一個人這件小事感悟到，在評判別人之前，必須先看清楚自己，然后才能更清楚地看到自己周圍的世界。 1.題意：為什么作者不能透過窗戶看到一切？考查細節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)第二段開頭I began to notice that her window was dirty. Ever...
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