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 小题2: A．keeps B．puts C．takes D．depends 小题3: A．always B．sometimes C． unusually D．seldom 小题4: A．full B．certain C．proud D．careful 小题5: A．taking B．bringing C．going D．coming 小题6: A．quickly B．hurriedly C．early D．happily 小题7: A．business B．task C．duty D．work 小题8: A．instructive B．useful C．harmful D．proper 小题9: A．who B．which C．when D．where 小题10: A．hurts B．injures C．breaks D．destroys 小题11: A．terrible B．sudden C．strange D．clever 小题12: A．expect B．like C．wonder D．doubt 小题13: A．need B．must C．may D．can 小题14: A．never B．certainly C．surely D．probably 小题15: A．famous B．careful C．curious D．hard 小题16: A．for B．without C．with D．in 小题17: A． products B．goods C．discoveries D．machines 小题18: A．profit B．product C．fruit D．result 小题19: A．but B．however C．so D．or 小题20: A．little B．few C．some D．any