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 (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 and criticized others through the
dirty window of my heart, through my own shortcomings?
Since then, whenever I wanted to judge (评判) 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.
B. the writer"s window was dirty
C. the woman lived nearby
D. the writer was near-sighted
B. the woman"s window was clean
C. the woman did cleaning in the afternoon
D. the woman"s window was still terrible
B. it cheered me up
C. I knew it grew light
D. it began to get dark
B. the writer often washed the window
C. they both worked as cleaners
D. they lived in a small town
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
experience, too.
I was very excited. It was the day of my last paper of the final examination. My mind was full of thoughts
of how I would spend my vacation. I was especially excited of the invitation that my uncle had given me to stay with him for a few days in Cambridge.
I was prepared for the subject, physics. My friends and I were on the ground doing the last minute revisions and also discussing the questions that were supposed to come in the paper. Suddenly the bell rang and we got
into our classrooms. The teacher came and quickly handed out the answer paper and the question paper. The
paper was of two hours and some of the expected questions came. I finished it almost forty-five minutes earlier. But since it was a rule not to collect the answer paper before the allotted (规定的) time. the teacher was not
collecting and I had to sit till the time was over. I checked my paper twice and corrected some of the mistakes
in it. I started thinking about the place my friends and I had planned to go after the paper.
Though I was thinking for a long time, the time seemed to be endless. So I thought of drawing something
on the question paper and turned it overleaf. I was shocked to see that the page which I had supposed to be
blank had four more questions on it which carried 20 marks and would take at least half an hour to complete.
I had a quick glance at my watch. There were only 10 minutes left. I was so nervous that I was hardly in a
state to write anything. They were the sub-questions (小题) of the last question. Suddenly our physics teacher
came in and told all of us that in the last question, out of 6 sub-questions only 2 had to be solved. I felt very
much relieved.
Thereafter I never made such mistakes again. But I realized that my anxiousness and excitement could
have cost me to lose 20 marks and decided never to make such a mistake again.
B. The writer lost 20 marks for the last question.
C. The writer made some mistakes during the exam.
D. The questions on the paper were difficult for the writer.
B. less afraid
C. more surprised
D. less worried
B. the writer turned overleaf to do the sub-questions
C. the writer spent 45 minutes finishing the paper
D. the writer got full marks in the physics exam
B. concentrate on what we are doing
C. try our best to do well in the exam
D. be careful not to make mistakes in the exam
performance tonight. I hope you"ll come. Here is the 2 ." She left in a hurry, disappearing in the crowds of
people
3 . "Is that true?" I asked myself. She was a quite 4 girl. I had never seen her making up or wearing
attractive clothes, for she did not know how to 5 indeed.
I arrived at the 6 with the ticket, and found my seat. Her performance was the seventh one. I knew I
would 7 from a hard time before her turn, for I had no 8 of art, but her performance was 9 watching,
no matter how long I would wait. Time went slowly. I 10 with myself not to fall asleep.
"Let" s welcome the next exciting dance - Latin!" 11 filled the hall at once.
I opened my eyes as large as possible, 12 to lose anything. Wearing a golden and shining skirt, Mary
appeared on the stage. Dancing with a charming smile, she was fully 13 in the Latin music. At this moment,
she looked like a pretty butterfly 14 on the splendid stage.
After all the performance 15 , I waited for her at the gate.
"Hi!" She stood in front of me with a bag and her crystal high-heeled shoes in her hands, and 16 as she
used to be, but the making-up still could be seen.
"How do you feel?" There was not a little bit tired 17 on her face. " 18 !" I answered.
"Thank you! I knew it would be." She could not 19 her excitement, laughing like a child. Looking at the
shining crystal high-heeled shoes in the wonderful starry night, I 20 that every girl has a pair of special shoes
which are like the crystal shoes of Cinderella.
( )1. A. instrument ( )2. A. address ( )3. A. quickly ( )4. A. lovely ( )5. A. cover up ( )6. A. hall ( )7. A. relieve ( )8. A. interest ( )9. A. proper ( )10. A. struggled ( )11. A. Appreciation ( )12. A. failing ( )13. A. absorbed ( )14. A. singing ( )15. A. stopped ( )16. A. talked ( )17. A. appearance ( )18. A. Sorry ( )19. A. hide ( )20. A. doubted | B. dance B. number B. completely B. popular B. turn off B. party B. escape B. ability B. worth B. knocked B. Attention B. fearing B. swallowed B. flying B. paused B. dressed B. excitement B. Congratulations B. prevent B. realized | C. music C. ticket C. quietly C. confident C. dress up C. theatre C. relax C. sense C. good C. supported C. Expectation C. forgetting C. interested C. skipping C. ended C. laughed C. expression C. Far from C. remove C. wondered | D. opera | |||||||||||||
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Elizabeth and I are 18 now, and about to graduate. I think about our elementary-school friendship, but | ||||||||||||||||
1. What can we learn about Beth? | ||||||||||||||||
A. She had a quarrel with the author in the fifth grade. B. She moved to another school in the fifth grade. C. She is now called Liz instead of Beth. D. She hasn"t seen the author for seven years. | ||||||||||||||||
2. Why does the author decide to write a letter instead of calling? | ||||||||||||||||
A. She is sure that Beth will not answer. B. She"s afraid that they"ll quarrel on the phone. C. She doesn"t know Beth"s telephone number. D. It is easier to express her feelings in writing. | ||||||||||||||||
3. Which of the following the author might NOT mention in her letter? | ||||||||||||||||
A. Their elementary-school friendship. B. Her future plan after graduation. C. Her expectations for Beth"s reply. D. The questions about the endings of their friendship. | ||||||||||||||||
4. What might happen at the end of the story? | ||||||||||||||||
A. Beth answers her letter two days later. B. The letter doesn"t reach Beth at all. C. They make up their friendship. D. Beth refuses to make peace with her. | ||||||||||||||||
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When Pat Jones finished college, she decided to travel around the world and see as many foreign places as she could 1 she was young. Pat wanted to visit Latin America first, so she got a job 2 an English teacher in a school in Bolivia. Pat spoke a little Spanish, 3 she was able to communicate with her students even when they didn"t 4 much English. A sentence she had read somewhere was in her mind: if you dream 5 a foreign language, you have really mastered (掌握) it. Pat repeated this sentence to her students and hoped that some day she would dream in Spanish and they would dream in 6 . One day, one of her 7 students came up and explained in Spanish that he had not done his homework. He had gone to bed early and had slept 8 . "What does this have to do with your 9 ?" Pat asked. "I dreamed all night, Miss Jones. And my dream was in English." "In English?" Pat was very 10 , since he was such a bad student. She was 11 secretly jealous (嫉妒的). Her dream was still not in Spanish. But she encouraged (鼓舞) her young student,"Well, 12 me about your dream." "All the people in my dream 13 English. All the newspapers and magazines and TV programs were in English." "But that"s 14 ,"said Pat. "What did all the people say to you?" "I"m sorry, Miss Jones. That"s 15 I slept so badly. I didn"t understand a word they said. It was a nightmare (噩梦)!" | ||||||||||||||||
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