Question

Curiosity is at the heart of lifelong learning. It not only gives children an advantage in school, but today’s business leaders agree that it's also at the heart of successful organizations.

Psychologists view curiosity as a life force, vital to happiness, intellectual growth, and well-being. 1. It points students toward the knowledge, skills, relationships, and experiences that they need to live full and productive lives.

1. 2.

Often, the temptation（诱惑）is to benefit students when their curiosity leads to a desired outcome or good grade. But it’s more important to notice and strengthen curiosity when you see it in action. When you praise students by describing how their questions and explorations are contributing to their own or classroom learning, you let them know that they are valued for their motivation, regardless of the grade they achieve.

2. Teach students how to ask quality questions.

Quality questions are vital for curiosity; Google, is great at finding answers but doesn’t motivate the formation of questions. 3. An excellent book for understanding the art of questioning is A More Beautiful Question by Warren Berger.

3. Spread the curiosity around.

4. Curiosity is influential in groups working toward a real-world common goal, helping to inspire questions and new ideas.

4. Explore a variety of cultures and societies.

How is one culture or society uniquely different from another one? Encourage students to explore their genetic or emotional links to other cultures. 5.

A. Value and reward curiosity.

B. Teach students to be critical.

C. Good questions contain “why,” “what if,” and “how”.

D. Why do they relate to certain beliefs or values that other societies hold?

E. The greatest advantage of curiosity lies in its power to motivate learning.

F. Create opportunities for more curious and less curious students to work together in learning.

G. How can students create a new poem, science experiment or product from their explorations?

Answer

1.E

2.A

3.C

4.F

5.D

【解析】本文是一篇议论文。本文主要讲了拥有好奇心的意义以及如何培养及对待好奇心。

1.根据上文Psychologists view curiosity as a life force, vital to happiness, intellectual growth, and well-being.讲了好奇的诸多好处，所以接下来会说好奇最大的好处在于它是促进学习的动力，故选E。

2.根据本段中When you praise students by describing how their questions and explorations are contributing to their own or classroom learning, you let them know that they are valued for their motivation, regardless of the grade they achieve.中捕捉到关键词praise和valued，由此可知这一段主要讲了要重视并且奖赏有好奇心的学生，故选A。

3.根据上文Quality questions are vital for curiosity; Google, is great at finding answers but doesn’t motivate the formation of questions.这里提到了高质量的问题的重要性，所以接下来会说高质量问题的特征，故C项（好的问题包括“为什么”，“假使…将会怎么样”和“如何”。）符合语境。

4.根据Curiosity is influential in groups working toward a real-world common goal, helping to inspire questions and new ideas.这里提到了团队合作，故选F。（为更好奇的学生和不太好奇的学生创造共同学习的机会。）

5.这一段的标题是探索各种各样的文化和社会。这一段落围绕这个标题展开。上文内容How is one culture or society uniquely different from another one? Encourage students to explore their genetic or emotional links to other cultures.提到一种文化和社会如何独特地与另一个不同？鼓励学生探索他们与其他文化的基因或情感联系。D项（为什么他们与其他社会持有的某些信仰或价值观有关？）也为探索文化和社会的一个发问，与本段内容符合。故选D。