Childhood curiosity can last a lifetime and I learned this from my son, Bill. When he was very young, I often took him to the1. He loved to read and often needed to2the books he'd read in order to borrow more books. One unintended3of his nonstop reading habits was that he even4at the dinner table. His mother, Mary, and I did our best to5him that, on certain social6, reading while dining with others was not a good thing. Every summer the teachers at his school7give the students a reading list, and there was a contest to see who could read the most books. He was so8, and he always wanted to win. And he often9. But the main reason why he read soobsessively(着迷地) was that he was so10. He didn't just want to learn about11things. He wanted to learn about everything. We helped12his curiosity in every way.13an unfamiliar word came up in conversation, we'd turn to the14, looking up the word, and reading the definition aloud. Thus my son came to realize that if you have a question, the15exists somewhere. All you have to do is16it. Bill remains as much of a17today as when he was a child, and he seems to18everything he reads. He's often19to share what he's learned with the next person he meets. He20reads 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, andRats, Lice, and History. |