单选题 When a person is 1 about something, it means he is interested in it and wishes to know more about it. There is nothing wrong with curiosity in 2 . 3 it is good or bad depends on what people are curious about.
Curiosity is sometimes silly or 4 . Some people with nothing to do are always 5 curiosity about what their neighbors are doing. They are eager 6 what they are eating or drinking, what they are bringing home or taking out or 7 they have come home so early or late. 8 in these things is silly because they are not at all important. It is 9 of their business to know what neighbors do or are doing. Such curiosity is something not only foolish but also 10 . For most probably, it leads to small talk which often brings harm, shame or disrespect to others, and thus 11 their feelings.
On the other 12 , there is a noble curiosity—the curiosity of the wise, who wonder at all the great things and try to 13 all they can about them. Columbus 14 America if he had not been 15 . James Watt would not have made the steam engine without his curiosity 16 the raising of the kettle lid. All the great 17 and inventions in human history have been made 18 a result of curiosity. But the curiosity is never about 19 things, which have something or nothing 20 the happiness of public.