B

Years ago, I lived in a building in a large city. The next building was only a few feet away from mine. There was a woman living there, and I had never met her, yet I could see she sat 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 (看見). Her window was clean!

Then it dawned on me. I had been criticizing (批評) 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 (評判) someone, I asked myself first, “Am I looking at him through my own dirty window?” I try to clean the window of my own world so that I may see the world about me more clearly. 

59. The writer couldn’t see everything clearly through the window because ________. 

A. the woman’s window was dirty B. the writer was near-sighted

C. the woman lived nearby D. the writer’s window was dirty 

60. “It dawned on me” probably means “________”. 

A. I knew it grew light     B. it cheered me up

C. I began to understand it D. it began to get dark

61. It’s clear that ________.

A. they both worked as cleaners   B. the writer often washed the window

C. the writer had never met the woman before D. they lived in a small town

62. From the passage, we can learn ________.

A. one must judge himself before he judges others

B. one should often make his windows clean

C. one shouldn’t criticize others very often

D. one must look at others through his dirty windows

C

The World Health Organization (WHO) planned to study the relationship between the eating habits of the people and the disease. Two doctors were chosen to make the study. They flew to Africa south of the Sahara and during the next two months visited ten countries. They found that serious diseases of poor eating, often mistaken for other diseases, existed in all parts of Africa. The diseases were similar and could therefore all be named kwashiorkor. The diseased children are usually from one to four years old. As the illness progresses, the child’s stomach becomes swollen by liquid collecting in the body. The skin changes color and may break out in open sores（疼痛）. The hair changes color and starts to fall out. The patient loses all interest in his surroundings and even in food, and becomes so weak that he wants to lie down all the time. Stomach liquids are no longer produced.

The doctors reasoned that kwashiorkor was found in the young children of this age in many parts of Africa because of lack of milk or meat. Their mothers, after stopping their breastfeeding, gave them foods full of starches（淀粉）instead of greatly needed proteins. They found that the addition of milk to the food of the children suffering from kwashiorkor saved many lives.

The unbelievable thing about kwashiorkor is that the very existence of the disease—which has been killing thousands of children for centuries—was not even recognized in Latin America as recently as ten years ago. The deaths of those children were mistakenly listed as due to other diseases. It was the WHO’s work in Africa that led to the discovery of the problem in Central America.

63. From the passage we learn that kwashiorkor is a disease caused by __________ .

A. poor living conditions              B. lack of proteins in food

C. breastfeeding                     D. lack of food

64. It is difficult to discover kwashiorkor because ____________________ .

A. it has no symptoms at all

B. it is hard to identify signs of it

C. it doesn’t last long enough for careful observation

D. it is hardly different from other diseases

65. What is mentioned as a simple but reasonable way of curing this disease?

A. Taking a special medicine. B. Avoiding any food containing starch.

C. Having more meat or milk. D. Taking medicine full of proteins.

66. What’s the best title for the article?

A. Milk and Meat Are Daily Necessities

B. Kwashiorkor and Improper Eating Habits

C. A New Form of Illness in Africa and Latin America

D. A Case of Eating Habits
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