Many 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.
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 morning I cleaned my room, 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 seen. Her window was clean!
Then 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. Since then, whenever I wanted to judge(判断) 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.
The writer couldn’t see everything clearly through the window because _______.
A.the woman’s window was dirty | B.his eyes were not good |
C.the woman lived nearby | D.his window was dirty |
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 |
“It dawned on me” probably means “_____”.
A.I began to understand it | B.It surprised me |
C.I knew it grew light | D.It began to get dark |
It was clear that _____.
A.the writer had never met the woman before | B.the writer often washed the window |
C.the writer helped the woman clean the window | D.they lived in a small town |
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 window |