第二节、完形填空（共20小题；每小题1分，满分20分）
When a person is curious about something, it means he is interested in it and wishes to know something about it. There is   36   wrong with curiosity(好奇) in itself. Whether it is good or bad   __37   on what people are curious about.
Curiosity   38   can be foolish or wrong. Some people with nothing to do are   39   of curiosity about what their neighbours are doing. They have a strong wish to know what they are   __40   home or taking outside, or why they have come home so   41 __ or late. To be interested in these things is foolish because it is none of   42   business to know what their neighbours do or are doing. Such curiosity is not only foolish but also   43  . For most probably, it may lead to a small talk   44   often brings harm, loss of honour or disrespect to others, and thus   45   their feelings.
On the other hand, there is a   46  curiosity --- the curiosity of wise men, who  47   at all the great things and try to find out all they   48 learn about them. Columbus could   49   have found America if he had not been   50  . James Watt would not have made the steam engine  51_   his curiosity about the rising of the kettle lid(水壶盖). All the   52  in human history have been made as a   53  of curiosity,   54 _ the clever curiosity is never about unimportant things which have   55   or nothing to do with the happiness of the public.
36. A. anything      B. everything         C. nothing             D. something
37. A. keeps           B. puts                  C. takes                 D. depends
38. A. always         B. sometimes         C. unusually          D. seldom
39. A. full             B. certain                     C. proud                D. careful
40. A. taking          B. bringing            C. going                D. coming
41. A. quickly        B. hurriedly           C. early                 D. happily
42. A. our              B. your                 C. their                 D. his
43. A. interesting    B. useful               C. harmful             D. proper
44. A. who            B. which               C. when                D. where
45. A. hurts           B. injures                     C. breaks               D. damages
46. A. terrible        B. sudden              C. strange              D. clever
47. A. expect         B. like                   C. wonder             D. doubt
48. A. need            B. must                 C. may                  D. can           
49. A. never           B. certainly            C. surely               D. probably
50. A. famous        B. careful                     C. curious              D. hard
51. A. for                     B. without             C. with                  D. in
52. A. products      B. goods                C. discoveries        D. machines
53. A. reason         B. product             C. fruit                  D. result
54. A. but                     B. however            C. so                     D. or
55. A. little            B. few                   C. some                 D. any