Curiosity is part of human nature. Children want answers {#blank#}1{#/blank#} tons of questions. People keep reading or watching because they want to find out what happens. But curiosity also provides many {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (practice) benefits.

    Many of history's greatest {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (discover) were made by curious people. People wondered how processes worked or how certain tasks could be done more {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (effect). Thanks to their curiosity, people now know far more about the world and obtain useful technology {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (help) themselves.

    Even if you don't plan to be {#blank#}6{#/blank#} inventor or researcher, curiosity can still help you in the classroom. If you develop the joy of learning, classes will become more fun. Even if you are no longer a student, curiosity will make you better {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (inform) and thus a more capable worker. Often, the more you learn about a topic, the {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (interest) it becomes.

    Thus, ask a lot of questions. Remember, everyone knows something {#blank#}9{#/blank#} you don't. Find out what that is, and ask about it.

    In the classroom or out of {#blank#}10{#/blank#}, developing curiosity is sure to be worthwhile.

Everywhere I look outside my home I see people busy on their high-tech devices, while driving, walking, shopping, even sitting in toilets. {#blank#}1{#/blank#}connected electronically, they are away from physical reality.

People {#blank#}2{#/blank#}(influence) to become technology addicted. One survey reported that "addicted" was the word most commonly used by people {#blank#}3{#/blank#}(describe) their relationship to iPad and similar devices. One study found that people had a harder time {#blank#}4{#/blank#}(resist) the temptation of social media than they did for sleep, cigarettes and alcohol.

The main goal of technology companies is to get people to spend more money and time on their products, not to actually improve our quality of life. They have successfully created a cultural disease. I see people {#blank#}5{#/blank#}(trap)in a pathological (病态的) relationship with time-consuming technology,{#blank#}6{#/blank#}they serve technology more than technology serves them. I call this technology servitude(奴役). I am referring to a loss of personal freedom and independence {#blank#}7{#/blank#} uncontrolled consumption of many kinds of devices that eat up time and money.

What is a healthy use of technology devices? That is the vital question. Who is really in charge of my life? That is what we need to ask {#blank#}8{#/blank#} if we are to have any chance of breaking up false beliefs about the use of technology. When we can live happily without using so much technology for a day or a week, then we can regain control and personal freedom, become the master of technology and discover what there is to enjoy in life free of technology. Mae West is famous for the wisdom that "too much of a good thing is wonderful." {#blank#}9{#/blank#} it's time to discover today's overused technology.

Richard Fernandez, an executive coach at Google acknowledged that "we can be swept away by our technologies," To break the grand digital connection, people must consider{#blank#}10{#/blank#} life long ago could be fantastic without today's overused technology.