When you meet someone for the first time, you will form an impression in your mind of that person in the first moment. Your reactions to other people, however, are really just barometers (晴雨表) for how you perceive(理解) yourself. Your reactions to others say more about you than they do about others. You cannot really love or hate something about another unless it reflects something you love or hate yourself. We are usually drawn to those who are most like us and tend to dislike those who display those aspects of ourselves that we dislike.
Therefore, you can allow others to be the mirror to illuminate (闡明;照亮) more clearly your own feelings of self-worth. Conversely(相反地), you can view the people you judge negatively as mirrors to show you what you are not accepting about yourself.
To survive together peacefully with others, you will need to learn tolerance. A big challenge is to shift your perspective from judgment of others to a lifelong exploration of yourself. Your task is to assess all the decisions, judgments you make onto others and to begin to view them as clues to how you can heal yourself and become whole.
Several days ago I had a business lunch with a man who displayed objectionable table manners. My first reaction was to judge him as rude and his table manners as annoying. When I noticed that I was judging him, I stopped and asked myself what I was feeling. I discovered that I was embarrassed to be seen with someone who was chewing with his mouth open and loudly blowing his nose. I was astonished to find how much I cared about how the other people in the restaurant perceived me.
Remember that your judgment of someone will not serve as a protective shield against you becoming like him. My judging my lunch partner as rude does not prevent me from ever looking or acting like him. In the same way, extending tolerance to him would not cause me to suddenly begin chewing my food with my mouth open.
When you approach life in this manner, those with whom you have the greatest dissatisfactions as well as those you admire and love can be seen as mirrors, guiding you to discover parts of yourself that you reject and to embrace your greatest quality. 
【小題1】We can know from the passage that the author advises people to _____________.

A.a(chǎn)void inappropriate manners.
B.learn tolerance towards others.
C.pay attention to others’ needs and feelings.
D.judge others favorably in any case.
【小題2】The underlined word “objectionable” in Paragraph 4 has the closest meaning to ____________.
A.discouragingB.satisfyingC.unpleasantD.a(chǎn)cceptable
【小題3】According to the passage, the following statements are all true except _____________.
A.You can’t really love or hate others if they are similar to you.
B.We are easily attracted by someone who is similar to us.
C.Our first judgment of a person mostly comes from our personal opinion.
D.The moment we see a stranger, our mind forms an impression of that person.
【小題4】Throughout the entire story, the last paragraph serves as a(n) ______________.
A.explanationB.exampleC.backgroundD.conclusion
【小題5】It can be implied from the text that ___________.
A.the writer’s first reaction to the man was to judge him as offensive
B.we will need to learn tolerance to coexist with others
C.we shouldn’t focus on judging others but should constantly reflect on our own
D.the writer didn’t care about other people’s view of him


【小題1】B
【小題2】C
【小題3】A
【小題4】D
【小題5】C

解析試題分析試題分析:古人言:以銅為鏡,可以正衣冠;以古為鏡,可以知興衰;那么以人為鏡呢?在本文中作者提出別人是自己的一面鏡子,對別人某個方面的喜歡或者厭惡都能折射出我們自己的情感、性格和價值觀等諸多方面,因此我們不要總是去判斷別人,而是要反思自己。
【小題1】B細節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)文章第三段To survive together peacefully with others, you will need to learn tolerance.可知要和別人友好相處就得學(xué)會容忍,包容,所以B選項正確。
【小題2】C詞義猜測題。根據(jù)文章第三段Several days ago I had a business lunch with a man who displayed objectionable table manners. My first reaction was to judge him as rude and his table manners as annoying.可知作者認為這個生意伙伴是一個在餐桌上沒有禮貌的人,他的餐桌禮儀是讓人厭惡的,故C為正確選項。
【小題3】A推理判斷題。根據(jù)文章第一段You cannot really love or hate something about another unless it reflects something you love or hate yourself. We are usually drawn to those who are most like us and tend to dislike those who display those aspects of ourselves that we dislike.可知我們靠近與自己類似的人,而那些展示出我們自身某個不喜歡的方面的人,往往令我們討厭,由此可知A選項的說法是錯誤的。
【小題4】D推理判斷題。A解釋;B例證;C背景;D結(jié)論。文章開頭提出人們對他人的反應(yīng)其實就是如何看待自己的晴雨表,更多反映出的是自己。然后在文章最后作者提到要以他人為鏡,以此去發(fā)現(xiàn)自身的缺陷,同時欣賞自己的最佳品質(zhì),由此可知文章最后是建議我們?nèi)绾稳プ,是對上文的總結(jié),所以答案選D。
【小題5】C推理判斷題。根據(jù)文章倒數(shù)第二段Remember that your judgment of someone will not serve as a protective shield against you becoming like him. Just because I judge my lunch partner as rude does not prevent me from ever looking or acting like him.可知我們要轉(zhuǎn)變視角,不要去評判別人,而是要不斷反省自身,以獲得自我完善,所以答案選C。
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