第二节：完形填空(共10小题;每小题1分，满分10分)

阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从36～45各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出最佳选项。

Years ago, I lived in a building in a large city. The building next door was   36  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  37  each afternoon, sewing or reading.

38 several months had gone by, I began to notice that her window was dirty. Everything was  39  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  40  to clean my house, 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  41  ! Across the way, the woman sitting by her window was clearly seen. Her window was clean!

Then I understood . I had been  42  her dirty window, but all the time I was watching hers through my own dirty window.

That was quite an important  43__ for me. How often had I looked at and criticized(批评) others through the dirty window of my heart,  through my own shortcomings (缺点)?

Since then, whenever I wanted to  44  someone, I asked myself first, "Am I looking at him _45__   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.

36. A. ever       B. only       C. even       D. still

37. A. window     B. door       C. house       D. table

38. A. Before     B. Because      C. While      D. After

39. A. clean      B. unclear      C. clear        D. funny

40. A. wanted     B. managed      C. decided      D. promised

41. A. surprise     B. joy       C. trouble         D. problem

42. A. watching     B. criticizing         C. looking       D. observing

43. A. lesson      B. thing       C. day        D. story

44. A. help      B. trouble       C. judge      D. dislike

45. A. across      B. in           C. through      D. by