We drink tea every day. But more than three hundred years ago most of the people in Europe (欧洲) did not know anything about tea. Some people heard about it, but very few of them know what to do with it.
　There is a story about an English sailor (水手) who went to countries in the east, the west and the south. He went to India and China. One day he came home and brought some tea as a present for his mother. She told her friends about the present and asked them to a "tea party". When her friends came to the "tea party", the old woman gave them brown tea-leaves. The old woman's friends began to eat them. Of course, nobody liked the tea-leaves.
　At that time the sailor came in. He looked at the table and said, "Mother，what did you do with the tea?"
　"I boiled it，as you said."
　"And what did you do with the water?"
　"I threw it away(扔掉)，of course." answered the old woman.
　"Now you may throw away the leaves，too，" said her son.
【小题1】Most of the people in Europe ___300 years ago.

根据短文内容，回答下列问题，每空一词。

The ladies club always had a meeting every Friday afternoon and someone came to talk to them about some important things. After that, they had tea and asked questions.

One Friday, a man came and talked in the club about the food problem. “There is not enough food in the world for everybody,” he said, “more than half of the people in the world are hungry, and when these people get more food, they have more babies, as a result they never stop being hungry. Somewhere in the world, a woman is having a baby every minute, day and night. What are we going to do about it?” He waited for a few seconds. Then one of the ladies said, “Why don’t we find that woman and stop her?”

1.What did people often do in the ladies club?

They often _____ a meeting, talked, had tea and _____ questions.

2.What did the man come to talk about one Friday?

He came to talk about the _____ _____.

3.What did the man think about the food problem?

Some people never stop _____ _____.

4.What is the woman’s answer to the man’s question?

She said they should find that woman and _____ her _____ having babies.

5.Do you think the woman’s answer is helpful?

_____, it _____.

         Years ago, I lived in a building in a town. There was another building across form mine, and it was only a few meters away. There lived a woman whom I had never met. I could see her sit by the window each afternoon, drinking or reading.

         Several months later, I noticed her window was very dirty. Everything was not clear through the window. I wondered why the woman didn’t wash her window.

         One sunny morning, I decided to clean up my apartment, including washing my windows. Late in the afternoon when I finished the cleaning, I sat down for a rest by the window. What a surprise! The woman sitting by her window was clearly seen! Her window was clean! Suddenly, I realized I had made a mistake. I was watching her through my dirty window all the time!

         That was quite an important lesson for me. Since then, whenever I wanted to judge(判断) someone, I asked myself first, “ Am I looking at him through the dirty window of my heart?” Then I try to clean the window of my own world so that I may see the world clearly.

1.The writer lived in           years ago.

         A. a hotel                 B. a village                 C. a town                   D. the countryside

2.The woman often drank and read by the window           .

         A. in the morning   B. in the afternoon  C. in the evening      D. the whole day

3.One sunny morning, the writer decided to do some          .

         A. reading                B. cleaning                 C. shopping               D. cooking

4.The writer was surprised to find the woman’s window was          .

         A. far                         B. broken                   C. clean                      D. dirty

5.From the passage(文章), we can learn            .

        A. we should judge ourselves before we judge others

        B. we should judge others through the dirty windows

        C. we shouldn’t clean the windows often

When you are ill, you will see a doctor. The doctor will write a note to take to the chemist for some medicine. Chemists are usually good at reading doctor’s notes. But sometimes doctors write too badly and even the chemists can’t read them.
One day a woman wrote to a doctor to invite him to have dinner with her family in the restaurant. The doctor wrote an answer, but he wrote too badly and the woman could not read it.
“What shall I do?” she asked her husband. “I don’t know whether he is going to come or not. I don’t want to call him and say that I don’t understand him.”
Her husband thought for a few minutes and then he had and idea. “Take it to the chemist,” he said. “He will be able to read it for us.” The woman went to the chemist’s shop and gave the doctor’s “note” to him. The chemist looked at it for a long time.
“Could you wait a moment, Miss?” he said. Then he went to the back of the shop. After a few minutes he came back, carrying a large bottle(瓶子).  He gave the bottle to the woman.
“Take one spoonful(一匙) every day,” he told the woman.
根据短文内容判断正误，正确的在答题卡上涂A, 错误的在答题卡上涂B.
【小题1】 The doctor invited the woman to dinner one day.
【小题2】The woman couldn’t read the note because the doctor wrote it badly.
【小题3】The husband asked his wife to go to the chemist’s shop and get some medicine.
【小题4】The chemist gave the woman a large bottle of medicine.
【小题5】In fact, the chemist didn’t know the meaning of the doctor’s note at all.

I will never forget the lesson about my window. Four years ago, I moved to a house in a large town. One of my new neighbors’ house was only a few feet away from mine. There lived a woman. Through one of my windows, I could see her reading by her window every afternoon.
Several months later, I found I couldn’t see the woman clearly. I thought her window was too dirty. I said to myself, “Why doesn’t she clean her window? It looks terrible!”
One afternoon, I decided to clean my house including(包括) the window. I felt tired after three hours of hard work. So I sat down by the window for a rest. What a surprise! I could see the woman reading there clearly again! By that time, I realized that my own window was too dirty, not hers! I really felt ashamed for myself. I had been watching her through my dirty window in the past days!
The experience is very important for me. So I try to clean the window of my heart before judging(评判) others.
【小题1】How long has the writer lived in the house according to the passage?
A. Two years.                B. Three years.          C. Four years.    
【小题2】The writer couldn’t see the woman clearly because ______________.
A. the writer’s window was dirty              
B. the woman’s house was too far
C. the woman didn’t open her window
【小题3】The underlined word “ashamed” means _________________.
A. 高兴的                    B. 放松的                C. 羞愧的
【小题4】According to the passage, the writer has learnt how to __________________.
A. clean the house           B. judge others          C. help neighbors