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 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 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 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.  

64.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

65．Finishing the cleaning, 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

66．“…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

67．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

 

For some minutes, all was quiet in the street. Then from across the street someone came walking.

It looked like a man of middle height, dressed in a big raincoat, a soft hat and rubber-soled boots or shoes, and making little sound while walking. No one was in sight. It was a street with two rows of about fifty small houses and there were three lamps on either side. The lamp nearest to the child’s house could be seen clearly, but the others were almost hidden by the smoky air. A car passed the end of the street and its lights showed faintly，but clearly enough to show the smooth skin of a woman’s face. The car disappeared as the woman, wrapped up in her coat, reached the doorway of the child’s house. She put a key in the lock quickly, pushed the door open and stepped inside, then closed the door without looking round. She began to breathe hard.

She leaned against the door for a moment, then straightened up as if with an effort, and walked towards the door of the front room, the passage leading to the kitchen, and the narrow staircase. She hesitated outside the door, then went up the stairs quickly but with hardly a sound. There was enough light from the narrow hall to show the four doors leading off a small landing(樓梯平臺(tái)). She pushed each door open in turn and shone a torch inside, and the light fell upon beds, walls, furniture, a bathroom hand-basin, a mirror which flashed brightness back; but this was not what the woman was looking for. She turned away and went downstairs, and hesitated again at the foot of the stairs, then turned towards the kitchen. Clearly there was nothing there, or in the small washroom that she wanted. Two rooms remained; the front room and a smaller one next to it. She opened the front room door. After a moment, she saw the child’s bed and the child.

1.The lights of the car passing the end of the street showed that ______.

A．a(chǎn) woman was driving the car

B．someone was standing by a street lamp.

C．a(chǎn) man and a woman were walking up the street.

D．a(chǎn) woman was walking by herself up the street.

2.After the woman closed the front door, she ___________.

A．looked round quickly	B．started breathing again
C．rested before moving	D．walked straight towards the front door

3. When she was upstairs, the woman _______.

A．saw that there was a wash-basin in each room

B．noticed a mirror which she was looking for

C．found a torch in one of the rooms

D．opened four different doors

4. Once she was in the house, the woman behaved as if what she was looking for ____

A．might be in the kitchen

B．was more likely to be upstairs

C．would be easily seen by the light from the hall

D．would look frightening to a child

 

Kids are far better than adults at learning how to speak multiple languages. Research now shows that very young infants might have some of the best language skills of all．

A new study suggests that babies between 4 and 6 months old can tell the difference between two languages just by looking at the speaker's face．They don't need to hear word．Sometimes between 6-8 months of age, babies raised in homes where just one language is spoken lose this ability．Babies from bilingual(雙語的) homes, on the other hand, keep the face-reading ability until they're at least 8 months old．
Researchers in Canada studied 36 babies from English-speaking families．Twelve of the babies were 4 months old,12 were 6 months old, and the rest were 8 months old．Each baby sat on his or her mother's lap and watched video clips(電影片斷) of a woman talking．The woman was fluent in both English and French．In some clips, she read from a storybook in English．In other clips, she read in French．In all of the videos there was no sound．
【小題1】What is mainly discussed in the passage ?

A．Language teaching．

B．Language learning

C．Babies and language learning

D．Parents and language teaching

【小題2】What do the underlined word in the second paragraph refer to ?

A．Two or more．

B．Foreign.

C．difficult.

D．At least one.

【小題3】We can know from the passage that    .

A．a(chǎn)ll the babies in the study are of the same age．

B．the babies could hear the woman's voice while watching the videos．

C．the stories the woman read were written in either French or German．

D．it's still unknown how babies could tell the difference between languages．

【小題4】Why did the 8-month-old pay no attention when the language was changed ?

A．They had lost the ability to distinguish different languages．

B．They were too tired to open their eyes and fell asleep．

C．They couldn't hear what the speaker was talking about．

D．They had lost the interest in bilingual speakers．

My mother really knows how to get others to do what she suggests. Besides my father, her neighbors and even a stranger in a grocery store, has fallen under her 36  .

One day we were shopping in a supermarket. When we were passing by the baby aisle(過道), she    37 a young mother browsing through different brands of powdered milk. Her baby was playing with a toy. My mother   38  babies so she went up to the woman and chatted with her.

My mother is an easy person to like. She has the kindest eyes in the world, so it isn’t 39 

to trust her. She 40 with the baby a little bit and told the woman about how I used to be cute at that age, too. They laughed together.

The woman was about to put Brand X Milk Powder in her cart when my mother suggested Brand Y  41 because it obviously had better vitamins. Would you believe the woman actually

42      brands just like that?

She really does know how to influence people. But what about her getting other people to

43     whatever she tells them?

My father and I actually had a long conversation about her  44 on how to influence people. According to my father, my mother is just a really likeable person, and she has 45 been

like that, even when he first met her. Chatting people up is natural for her.

During our conversation, I realized that what my mother has is the  46 to build rapport(親善) with other people. With rapport comes  47 . People are more likely to be influenced by those who they think understand their viewpoints or share their opinions.

1.	A．leadership B．control C．instruction D．influence

 

2.	A．noticed B．kept C．watched D．felt

 

3.	A．a(chǎn)dmires B．a(chǎn)dores C．a(chǎn)dopts D．praises

 

4.	A．obvious B．difficult C．necessary D．natural

 

5.	A．sang B．dealt C．spoke D．played

 

6.	A．instead B．finally C．yet D．a(chǎn)nyhow

 

7.	A．bought B．considered C．compared D．switched

 

8.	A．hear B．a(chǎn)ccept C．need D．understand

 

9.	A．plan B．a(chǎn)dvice C．secret D．speech

 

10.	A．a(chǎn)lways B．frequently C．seldom D．occasionally

 

11.	A．desire B．motivation C．purpose D．a(chǎn)bility

 

12.	A．relationship B．respect C．trust D．kindness

 

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 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 (批評(píng)) 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 (評(píng)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.
【小題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

【小題2】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

【小題3】The underlined sentence "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

【小題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 cleaner

D．they lived in a small town

【小題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