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When a person is curious about something...

When a person is curious about somethingit 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 drinkingwhat they are____home or taking outsideor____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 probablyit____to a small talk which often brings harmshame or disrespect to othersand thus____their feelings.

On the other handthere is a____curiosity—the curiosity of wise menwho____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.

1.A.much  Bnothing

Csomething  Dnone

2.A.keeps  Bputs

Ctakes  Ddepends

3.A.full  Bfond

Cproud  Dout

4.A.permitted  Bworried

Csatisfied  Danxious

5.A.taking  Bbringing

Cgoing  Dthinking

6.A.if  Bwhen

Cwhy  Dwhether

7.A.silly  Bnecessary

Cpossible  Dfunny

8.A.wrong  Bbad

Cimportant  Dright

9.A.work  Bhousework

Cduty  Dbusiness

10.A.nothing  Ball

Csomething  Deverything

11.A.instructive  Buseless

Charmful  Ddreadful

12.A.refers  Bleads

Ccauses  Dfollows

13.A.hurts  Beffects

Cshows  Doppresses

14.A.terrible  Bsudden

Cstrange  Dnoble

15.A.expect  Blike

Cwonder  Ddoubt

16.A.know  Bstudy

Cmust  Dcan

17.A.never  Bcertainly

Cprobably  Dfinally

18.A.famous  Bcareful

Ccurious  Dhard

19.A.for  Bwithout

Cin  Dfrom

20.A.because  Bas

Cafter  Dduring

 

1.B 2.D 3.A 4.D 5.B 6.C 7.A 8.C 9.D 10.C 11.C 12.B 13.A 14.D 15.C 16.D 17.A 18.C 19.B 20.B 【解析】 1. 解析 根据常识可以确定。 2.2】答案 D 解析 depend on依赖,依靠,取决于……。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。 3.3】答案 A 解析 有的人对邻居的生活琐事充满了好奇。be full of充满……,符合语境。 4.4】答案 D 解析 be anxious to do sth.为固定结构,表示“急切地想做某事”。 5.5】答案 B 解析 与空后的“taking outside”相反,表示带回家来。 6.6】 C 解析 由句中的“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。 7.7】答案 A 解析 这种好奇明显很愚蠢、愚昧。 8.8】答案 C 解析 这些琐事根本不重要。 9.9】答案 D 解析 none of one’s business是习语,意思是“不关某人的事”。 10.0】答案 C 解析 something某些事情,符合语境。nothing没有东西,不存在的事情;all一切;everything每件事。 11.1】答案 C 解析 这种无聊的好奇不仅很蠢,而且很有害处。 12.2】答案 B 解析 lead to引发,导致,符合语境。refer to提到,涉及到,在此意思不通;C、D两项为及物动词,后不接介词to。 13.3】答案 A 解析 这种流言最终会对人的感情、情绪造成伤害(hurt)。 14.4】答案 D 解析 同前面所提到的“愚蠢而又伤人”的好奇正好相反的是“意图和出发点高尚的(noble)”好奇。 15.5】答案 C 解析 wonder at对……感到好奇,A、B、D三项皆为及物动词,后不接介词at。 16.6】答案 D 解析 此句中they can后省略了find out,为定语从句,修饰前面的all。 17.7】 A 解析 若没有好奇心,哥伦布永远不会发现美洲大陆(该句为虚拟语气)。 18.8】 C 解析 见上题解析。 19.9】 B 解析 同样,瓦特若没有好奇心就不会发明蒸汽机。 20. 解析 人类历史上的所有发明或发现都是好奇的结果。as a result of作为……的结果,符合语境。
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