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Perhaps you've heard the old saying “curiosity killed the
cat.” It's a phrase that's often used to warn people—especially children—not to
ask too many questions. In fact, research has shown that
curiosity is just as important as intelligence in determining how well students
do in school.
Curiosity can also lead us to make unexpected discoveries,
bring excitement into our lives, and open up new possibilities. For example, one day in 1831, Michael
Faraday was playing around with a coil(线圈) and a magnet(磁铁) when he suddenly saw how he could
produce an electrical current. At first, it wasn't clear what use this would
have, but it actually made electricity available for use in technology, and so
changed the world.
On one level, this is because
technology has become so advanced that many of us are unable to think too
deeply about how exactly things work anymore. While it may be possible for a
curious teenager to take a toaster apart and get some sense of how it works,
how much do you understand about what happens when you type a website address
into a browser? Where does your grasp of technology end and the magic begin for
you?
In addition to this, there's the fact that we all now
connect so deeply with technology, particularly with our phones. The more we
stare at our screens, the less we talk to other people directly. Then we feel we know enough about a
person not to need to engage further with them.
The final—and perhaps most worrying—way in which technology
stops us from asking more has to do with algorithms, the processes followed by
computers. As we increasingly get our news via social media, algorithms find
out what we like and push more of the same back to us. Perhaps the real key to developing
curiosity in the 21st century, then, is to rely less on the tech tools of our
age.
A. It is still not
known why learning gives us such pleasure.
B. We are always
encouraged to challenge our pre-existing beliefs.
C. Yet it's widely
agreed that curiosity actually makes learning more effective.
D. All too often we
accept the images of people that social media provides us with.
E. However, curiosity
is currently under the biggest threat, coming from technology.
F. In science, basic
curiosity-driven research can have unexpected important benefits.
G. That means we end
up inside our own little bubbles, no longer coming across new ideas.
答案:【1】C【2】F【3】E【4】D【5】G