3 . Childhood curiosity can last a lifetime and I learned this from my son, Bill. When he was very young, I often took him to the
____ He loved to read and often needed to
____ the books he’d read in order to borrow more books.One unintended
_____ of his nonstop reading habits was that he even
____ at the dinner table. His mother, Mary, and I did our best to
____ him that, on certain social
_____ , reading while dining with others was not a good thing.
Every summer the teachers at his school
____ give the students a reading list, and there was a contest to see who could read the most books. He was so
____ , and he always wanted to win. And he often
____ .But the main reason why he read so obsessively (着迷地) was that he was so
____ . He didn’t just want to learn about
____ things. He wanted to learn about everything.
We helped
____ his curiosity in every way.
____ an unfamiliar word came up in conversation, we’d turn to the
____ , looking up the word, and reading the definition aloud. Thus my son came to realize that if you have a question, the
____ exists somewhere. All you have to do is
____ it.
Bill remains as much of a
____ today as when he was a child, and he seems to
_____ everything he reads. He’s often
____ to share what he’s learned with the next person he meets. He
____ reads at the dinner table, though — which is a good thing because the books he’s attracted to now are increasingly unappetizing (引不起食欲的): The Eradication of Infectious Diseases, Mosquitoes, Malaria & Man, and Rats, Lice, and History.
1. | A．school | B．office | C．library | D．museum |
2. | A．return | B．store | C．talk | D．pick |
3. | A．advantage | B．discovery | C．explanation | D．consequence |
4. | A．play | B．read | C．study | D．laugh |
5. | A．convince | B．promise | C．inform | D．advise |
6. | A．issues | B．services | C．occasions | D．duties |
7. | A．could | B．would | C．should | D．might |
8. | A．sincere | B．crazy | C．positive | D．competitive |
9. | A．went | B．failed | C．did | D．proved |
10. | A．curious | B．confident | C．diligent | D．excellent |
11. | A．simple | B．past | C．any | D．some |
12. | A．protect | B．develop | C．examine | D．follow |
13. | A．Until | B．If | C．Though | D．Because |
14. | A．teacher | B．newspaper | C．partner | D．dictionary |
15. | A．person | B．book | C．answer | D．matter |
16. 17. | A．speaker | B．reader | C．maker | D．user |
18. | A．imagine | B．believe | C．create | D．remember |
19. | A．eager | B．afraid | C．careful | D．sure |
20. | A．now and again | B．at all time | C．no longer | D．just now |
