2019下半年四级考试阅读:微尘与栋梁

英语四级考试阅读考察的是同学们词汇积累和语法运用，这需要长期通过试题练习，不断学习新单词，熟练掌握单词用法，能够理解文章主旨，找出答案。今天坦途网英语四级考试频道小编给大家分享四级阅读美文，大家可以在闲暇时间观看，提升自己阅读速度。

On Motes and Beams

It is curious that our own offenses should seem so much less heinous than the offenses of others. I suppose the reason is that we know all the circumstances that have occasioned 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 it easy to condone them. For 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.

But 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 fro which 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 telling 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 of greatness and littleness, 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. The knowledge that these reveries are common to all men should inspire one with tolerance to oneself as well as to others. It is well also if they enable us to look upon our fellows, even the most eminent and respectable, with humor, and if they lead us to take ourselves not too seriously.

大家今天有没有收获呢？备考英语四级考试不一定是每天做题练习，就阅读模块来说，词汇和语法是基础，但是在完成每日学习计划之后，大家也可以观看外文阅读美文，拓展思维，学习优秀文章的语言表述，可以做好笔记运用到自己写作和阅读中，也是一种比较有效的学习方法，希望大家可以借鉴学习。