Years ago, I lived in a building in a large city. The next building only was a few feet away from mine. They was a woman lived there, and I had never met her, yet I could see she sat by her window each afternoon, drinking or reading.
After a few months, 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 clean her window. It really looks terrible.”
One sunny morning I decided to clean my house, including washing the window.
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 (看见). Her window was clean!
It dawned on me. I had been criticizing (批评) 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 others through the dirty window of my heart?
Since then, whenever I wanted to judge (评判) someone, I asked myself first, “Am I looking at him through my own dirty window?” I try to clean the window of my own world so that I may see the world about me more clearly.
小题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小题2: The writer was surprised that _________.
A．the woman was sitting by her window
B．the woman’s window was still terrible
C．the woman did cleaning in the afternoon
D．the woman’s window was clean小题3: “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小题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 cleaners
D．they lived in a small town小题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.
