题目内容：

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