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  When a person is curious about something, it means he is interested in it and wishes to know more about it. There is 1 wrong with curiosity in itself. Whether it is good or bad 2 on what people are curious about.

  Curiosity is always silly or wrong. Some persons with nothing to do are 3 of curiosity about what their neighbors are doing. They are 4 to know what they are eating or drinking, what they are 5 home or taking outside, or 6 they have come home so early or late. To be interested in these things is 7 because they are not at all 8 . It is none of their 9 to know what their neighbors do or are doing. Such curiosity is 10 not only foolish but also 11 . For most probably, it 12 to a small talk which often brings harm, shame or disrespect to others, and thus 13 their feelings.

  On the other hand, there is a 14 curiositythe curiosity of wise men, who 15 at all the great things and try to find out all they 16 about them. Columbus could 17 have found America if he had not been 18 . James Watt Would not have made the steam engine 19 his curiosity about the raising of the kettle lid. All the discoveries in human history have been made 20 a result of curiosity. But the curiosity is never about unimportant things which have little or nothing to do with the happiness of the public.

1.

[  ]

A.much
B.nothing
C.something
D.none

2.

[  ]

A.keeps
B.puts
C.takes
D.depends

3.

[  ]

A.full
B.fond
C.proud
D.out

4.

[  ]

A.permined
B.worried
C.satisfied
D.anxious

5.

[  ]

A.taking
B.bringing
C.going
D.thinking

6.

[  ]

A.if
B.when
C.why
D.whether

7.

[  ]

A.silly
B.necessary
C.possible
D.funny

8.

[  ]

A.wrong
B.bad
C.important
D.interesting

9.

[  ]

A.work
B.housework
C.duty
D.business

10.

[  ]

A.how
B.all
C.something
D.everything

11.

[  ]

A.instructive
B.useless
C.harmful
D.dreadful

12.

[  ]

A.refers
B.leads
C.causes
D.follows

13.

[  ]

A.hurts
B.effects
C.shows
D.oppresses

14.

[  ]

A.terrible
B.sudden
C.strange
D.noble

15.

[  ]

A.expect
B.like
C.wonder
D.doubt

16.

[  ]

A.know
B.study
C.must
D.can

17.

[  ]

A.never
B.certainly
C.probably
D.finally

18.

[  ]

A.famous
B.careful
C.curious
D.hard

19.

[  ]

A.for
B.without
C.in
D.from

20.

[  ]

A.because
B.as
C.after
D.during
答案:B;D;A;D;B;C;A;C;D;C;C;B;A;D;C;D;A;C;B;B
解析:

  1.由常识决定.

  2depend on属固定词组,好奇本身并无对错可言,其好坏由人们所好奇的事情来决定.下文就好事和坏事两方面作了阐述.

  3.有的人对邻居的生活琐事充满了好奇.

  4be anxious to do sth.为固定结构,表示“急切地想做某事”.

  5.与taking outside相反,表示带回家看.

  6.从句中的“so early or late”来看,是要探究回家这样早或晚的原因.用其他的连词句意不通.

  7.这种好奇明显很愚蠢、愚昧.

  8.由文意决定.

  9none of one's business是习语.

  10something某事(物).

  11.这种无聊的好奇不仅很蠢,而且很有害处.

  12.“lead ton.”结构表示“导致”.

  13.好奇会导致一些闲言碎语,最终会伤害别人.

  14.相对于上文中愚蠢的好奇,on the other hand表明下文将论及令人称道的可贵的好奇.

  15.只有wonder才能跟句意相符.

  16they can后省略了find out,构成定语从句,修饰前面的all

  17.由句意决定.

  18.若没有好奇,哥伦布永远不会发现美洲(该句为虚拟语气).

  19.同样,瓦特若没有好奇就不会发明蒸汽机.

  20.“as a result of curiosity”概括了许多发明或发现都是好奇的结果.


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(1) A.willing      

  
  

B.able      

  
  

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D.happy      

  
  

(2) A.job      

  
  

B.worry      

  
  

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