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1. Children are c__________ about everything. They are always asking a lot of questions. 2. Don’t d__________ her; she is doing her homework. 3. The d__________ of gold in California made people rush to the west. 4. The Great London Fire, which began on 2nd September 1666, r__________ in huge damage to the city of London. 5. Ive never come a__________ anyone quite like her before. 6. It r__________ a secret. 1. Children are curious about everything. They are always asking a lot of questions. 2. Don’t disturb her; she is doing her homework. 3. The discovery of gold in California made people rush to the west. 4. The Great London Fire, which began on 2nd September 1666, resulted in huge damage to the city of London. 5. Ive never come across anyone quite like her before. 6. It remains a secret. 1. He was bright and curious about the world outside his hometown. (Page 42, Lines 5-6) be curious about sth. 对……好奇 be curious to do sth. 好奇地做某事 Curiously enough…奇怪的是 ……(常放句首) They were very curious about the people who lived in the island. He is always curious to find out how everything works. Curiously enough, a year later exactly the same thing happened to me again. 2. In 1891, at the age of 17, he set sail for Alexandria, Egypt. (Page 42, Lines 6-7) We set sail from Dover for Ostend. We went for a sail around the island. The sun was sinking as we set out for home. We left our bags in the station and made straight for the shipyard. 3. By the 1920s, he had become an explorer, searching for the tombs of the Egyptian Kings. (Page 42, Lines 7-8) By the time the doctor arrived, the woman had given birth. Mike must have made some friends in his new school by now. Scientists are still searching for a cure for the common cold. The police didn’t give up searching for the missing boy. some other expressions for “search”: search sp./ sb. for sth. 搜索（某地/某人）寻找某物 in search of … （介词短语）寻找 The police searched the house for the stolen jewelry. He moved to New York i