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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
______(1) met, yet I could see her seated by her window each afternoon, sewing or
reading.
After several months had ______(2), I began to
notice that her window was
dirty.
Everything
was
unclear
______(3)
the
dirty
window.
I
would
say
to
______(4),
鈥淚
wonder why that
woman doesn
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t
wash her window.
It
really looks
______(5).
鈥?/p>
One
bright
morning
I
decided
to
clean
my
flat,
______(6)
washing
the
window on the inside.
Later in the afternoon when I finished the cleaning, I sat down by the window
with
a
cup
of
coffee
for
a
rest.
What
a
______(7)!
Across
the
way,
the
woman
sitting by her window, ______(8) all the time I was watching hers through my own
dirty window.
That was ______(9) an important lesson for me. How often had I ______(10)
and
criticized
others
through
the
dirty
window
of
my
heart,
through
my
own
shortcomings?
Since then, whenever I wanted to judge someone, I asked myself first,
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Am I
looking at him through my own dirty window?
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Then I try to clean the window of my own world so that I may see the world
about me more clearly.
1.
A. ever
B. before
C. never
D. once
2.
A. gone
B. gone by
C. gone off
D. gone away
3.
A. in
B. across
C. through
D. on
4.
A. me
B. myself
C. I
D. my
5.
A. terrible
B. ugly
C. good
D. surprising
6.
A. containing
B. includes
C. contains
D. including
7.
A. shock
B. excitement
C. surprise
D. joy
8.
A. however
B. but
C. though
D. because
9.
A. so
B. very
C. quite
D. too
10.
A. looked
B. looked at
C. looked for
D. looked into
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Once there was a king who told some of his people to dig a pond. The king
then told his people that one person ______(1) each family had to bring a glass of
milk during the night and put it into the pond. So, by the morning, the pond should
be ______(2) of milk.
After
______(3)
the
order,
everyone
went
home.
As
one
man
prepared
his
milk, he thought that since everyone was bringing milk, he would just ______(4) a