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Word文档下载后（可任意编辑） 第 第 PAGE 1 页 共 NUMPAGES 1 页 12月英语四级考试答案精讲卷二（续） 英语四级考试试题：12月英语四级考试答案精讲卷二（续） 英语四级考试精品课程  Section B  Why arent you curious about what happened?  [A]You suspended Ray Rice after our video, 8 reporterfrom TMZ challenged National Football League Commissioner Roger Goodell theother day. Why didnt you have the curiosity to go to the casino(堵场)yourself?The implication of the question is that a more curious commissioner wouldhave found a way to get the tape.  [B]The accusation of incuriosity is one that we hear often, carryingthe suggestion that there is something wrong with not wanting to search out thetruth.“I have been bothered for a long time about the curious lack ofcuriosity, said a Democratic member of the New Jersey legislature back inJuly, referring to an insufficiently inquiring attitude on the part of anassistant to New Jersey Governor Chris Christie who chose no to ask hard questionsabout the George Washington Bridge traffic scandal. Isnt the mainstreammedia the least bit curious about what happened? wrote conservativewriter Jennifer Rubin earlier this year. referring to the attack on Americansin Benghazi, Libya.  [C]The implication, in each case, is that curiosity is a good thing,and a lack of curiosity is a problem. Are such accusations simply efforts toscore political points for ones party? Or is there something of particularvalue about curiosity in and of itself?  [D]The journalist Ian Leslie, in his new and enjoyable book Curious:The Desire to Know and Why Your Future Depends on It, insists that the answerto that last question is Yes. Leslie argues that curiosity is amuch-overlooked human virtue, crucial to our success, and that we are losingit.  [E]We are suffering, he writes, from a serendipitydeficit.The word serendipity was coined by Horace Walpole inan 1854 letter, from a tale of three princes who were always makingdiscoveries, by accident, of things they were not in search of.Leslieworries that