When a person is curious about something，it means he is interested in it and wishes to know more about it.There is____wrong with curiosity in itself.Whether it is good or bad____on what people are curious about.
Curiosity is always silly or wrong.Some persons with nothing to do are____of curiosity about what their neighbours are doing.They are____to know what they are eating or drinking，what they are____home or taking outside，or____they have come home so early or late.To be interested in these things is____because they are not at all___.It is none of their____to know what their neighbours do or are doing.Such curiosity is____not only foolish but also____.For most probably，it____to a small talk which often brings harm，shame or disrespect to others，and thus____their feelings.
On the other hand，there is a____curiosity—the curiosity of wise men，who____at all the great things and try to find out all they____about them.Columbus could____have found America if he had not been___.James Watt would not have made the steam engine____his curiosity about the raising of the kettle lid.All the discoveries in human history have been made____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.
| 小题1: | | A．much | B．nothing | | C．something | D．none |
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| 小题2: | | A．keeps | B．puts | | C．takes | D．depends |
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| 小题4: | | A．permitted | B．worried | | C．satisfied | D．anxious |
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| 小题5: | | A．taking | B．bringing | | C．going | D．thinking |
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| 小题7: | | A．silly | B．necessary | | C．possible | D．funny |
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| 小题8: | | A．wrong | B．bad | | C．important | D．right |
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| 小题9: | | A．work | B．housework | | C．duty | D．business |
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| 小题10: | | A．nothing | B．all | | C．something | D．everything |
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| 小题11: | | A．instructive | B．useless | | C．harmful | D．dreadful |
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| 小题12: | | A．refers | B．leads | | C．causes | D．follows |
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| 小题13: | | A．hurts | B．effects | | C．shows | D．oppresses |
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| 小题14: | | A．terrible | B．sudden | | C．strange | D．noble |
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| 小题15: | | A．expect | B．like | | C．wonder | D．doubt |
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| 小题17: | | A．never | B．certainly | | C．probably | D．finally |
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| 小题18: | | A．famous | B．careful | | C．curious | D．hard |
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| 小题20: | | A．because | B．as | | C．after | D．during |
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