完型填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）
When a person is curious about something, it means he is interested in it and wishes to know something about it. There is
16 wrong with curiosity in itself. Whether it is good or bad
17 on what people are curious about.
Curiosity
18 can be foolish or wrong. Some people with nothing to do are
19 of curiosity about what their neighbors are doing. They have a strong wish to know what they are
20 home or taking outside, or why they have come home so
21 or late. To be interested in these things is silly because it is none of their
22 to know what their neighbors do or are doing. Such curiosity is not only foolish but also
23 . For most probably, it may lead to a small talk
24 often brings harm, loss of honor or disrespect to others, and thus
25 their feelings.
On the other hand, there is a
26 curiosity- the curiosity of wise men, who
27 at all the great things and try to find out all they
28 learn about them. Columbus could
29 have found America if he had not been
30 . James Walt would not have made the steam engine
31 his curiosity about the rising of the kettle lid. All the
32 in human history have been made as a 33 of curiosity,
34 the clever curiosity is never about unimportant things which have
35 or nothing to do with the happiness of the public.
| 小题1: | | A．anything | B．everything | C．nothing | D．something |
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| 小题2: | | A．keeps | B．puts | C．takes | D．depends |
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| 小题3: | | A．always | B．sometimes | C． unusually | D．seldom |
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| 小题4: | | A．full | B．certain | C．proud | D．careful |
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| 小题5: | | A．taking | B．bringing | C．going | D．coming |
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| 小题6: | | A．quickly | B．hurriedly | C．early | D．happily |
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| 小题7: | | A．business | B．task | C．duty | D．work |
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| 小题8: | | A．instructive | B．useful | C．harmful | D．proper |
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| 小题9: | | A．who | B．which | C．when | D．where |
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| 小题10: | | A．hurts | B．injures | C．breaks | D．destroys |
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| 小题11: | | A．terrible | B．sudden | C．strange | D．clever |
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| 小题12: | | A．expect | B．like | C．wonder | D．doubt |
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| 小题14: | | A．never | B．certainly | C．surely | D．probably |
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| 小题15: | | A．famous | B．careful | C．curious | D．hard |
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| 小题17: | A． products | B．goods | C．discoveries | D．machines |
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| 小题18: | | A．profit | B．product | C．fruit | D．result |
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