高中英语语法填空:短文题型基础练习 Test 36

It is curious that our own offenses should seem so much less heinous（极凶恶的） than the offenses of others. I suppose the reason is that we know all the circumstances that 　61　 (occasion) them and so manage to excuse in ourselves what we cannot excuse in others. We turn our attention away from our own defects, and when we are forced by untoward events to consider them, find 　62　 easy to tolerate them. 　63　 all I know we are right to do this; they are part of us and we must accept the good and bad in ourselves together.

　64　 when we come to judge others, it is not by ourselves as we really are that we judge them, but by an image that we have formed of ourselves from 　65　 we have left out everything that offends our vanity or would discredit us in the eyes of the world. To take a trivial instance: how scornful we are when we catch someone out 　66　 (tell) a lie; but who can say that he has never told not one, but a hundred?

There is not much to choose between men. They are all a hotchpotch（杂烩） of greatness and 　67　 (little), of virtue and vice, of nobility and baseness. Some have more strength of character, or more opportunity, and so in one direction or another give their instincts freer play, but potentially they are the same. For my part, I do not think I am any better or any worse than most people, but I know that if I set down every action in my life and every thought that has crossed my mind, the world would consider me a monster of depravity（堕落，邪恶）. The knowledge that these reveries（空想） are common to all men should inspire one with tolerance to oneself as well as to others. It is well also 　68　 they enable us 　69　 (look) upon our fellows, even the most eminent and respectable, with humor, and if they lead us to take ourselves not too 　70　 (serious).