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Paper was first made in the year 105 A. D. (公元). A Chinese man Cai Lun made it. For 500 years only the Chinese can make paper. The Japanese learned to make paper around the year 600. As years went by, people in places began to make paper. The pencil is not made of lead(铅). It is made of graphite(石墨). People found graphite in 1564. They thought it was a kind of lead. Today we still pencils "lead pencils".
The first wooden pencil was made by Kasper Faber. In 1761 he started making pencils in Germany. Kasper Faber was Eberhard Faber's great- grandfather. In 1861 Eberhard Faber started making pencils in . Rubbers like those we use today were first made in 1752. They were made in France by a man named Magellan. A man named Hyman L. Lipman first put rubbers on the ends of pencils. And that is the pencil came to be now.
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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(做针线活) or reading.
After several months had gone by, I began to notice that her window ~vas 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 he 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(批评) 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(缺点)? Since then, whenever I wanted to judge(评判) 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.