When a person is curious about something, it means he is interested in it and wishes to know more about it. There is nothing 1with curiosity in itself. Whether it is good or bad 2 on what people are curious about.
Curiosity is3silly or wrong. Some persons with nothing to do are4of curiosity about what their neighbors are doing. They are5to know what they are eating or drinking, what they are bringing home or taking out or6they have come home so early or late. To be interested in these things is7 because they are not important at all. It is none of their8 to know what neighbors do or are doing. Such curiosity is9not only foolish but also harmful. For most probably, it 10 to small talk which often brings 11, shame or dis-respect to others and thus hurt their feelings.
On the other 12, there is a noble curiosity— the curiosity of the wise, who 13 at all the great things and try to find out all they 14 about them. Columbus could 15 have found America if he had not been 16. James Watt would not have made the steam engine 17his curiosity about the raising of the kettle lid (水壶盖).All the great discoveries and inventions in human history have been made 18a result of curiosity. 19the curiosity is never about unimportant things, which have 20or nothing to do with the happiness of the public.
