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Choose the best answer.(根据短文内容,选择最恰当的答案)
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, sewing(做针线活) or
reading.
After several months had gone by, I began
to notice that her window ~vas 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 he 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(缺点)? 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.