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.
1.A. anything B. everything C. nothing D. something
2. A. keeps B. puts C. takes D. depends
3. A. always B. sometimes C. unusually D. seldom
4. A. full B. certain C. proud D. careful
5.A. taking B. bringing C. going D. coming
6. A. quickly B. hurriedly C. early D. happily
7.A. business B. task C. duty D. work
8. A. instructive B. useful C. harmful D. proper
9. A. who B. which C. when D. where
10.A. hurts B. injures C. breaks D. destroys
11.A. terrible B. sudden C. strange D. clever
12. A. expect B. like C. wonder D. doubt
13.A. need B. must C. may D. can
14. A. never B. certainly C. surely D. probably
15.A. famous B. careful C. curious D. hard
16. A. for B. without C. with D. in
17. A. products B. goods C. discoveries D. machines
18. A. profit B. product C. fruit D. result
19. A. but B. however C. so D. or
20.A. little B. few C. some D. any
He tried his best to solve the problem, ______ difficult it was.
A. however B. no matter C. whatever D. although
–David, it’s Frank. Do you have a few minutes? I need to see you.
-- _______. But I hope “a few minutes” doesn’t turn into an hour.
A. I’m afraid not B. It doesn’t matter C. I don’t think so D. I guess so
The novel is said _______ the month before.
A. to publish B. to be published C. publish D. to have been published
I kept looking at the man, wondering _______.
A. whether I have seen him before B. whether I had seen him before
C. that I had seen him before D. when I saw him before
I got caught in the rain and my suit _______.
A. has ruined B. had ruined C. has been ruined D. had been ruined
