Do you often ask questions? Children are known for wanting answers to many questions because curiosity (好奇心) is part of human nature. Books and TV shows often depend on curiosity. People keep reading or watching because they want to find out what happens.

As we all know, curiosity provides many advantages. Many of history’s greatest discoveries were made by curious people. People wondered how things worked and how work could be done more quickly. Thanks to their curiosity, people now know far more about the world and have useful technology to help them. Even if you don’t plan to be an inventor or researcher, curiosity can still help you in the classroom. If you develop the curiosity of learning, classes will become more interesting. You will be good at them because you enjoy the process of learning. Even if you’re no longer a student, curiosity will make you an able worker.

What will you do if you’re not already curious? Luckily, curiosity is a skill that can be improved. Often, the more you learn about a topic, the more interesting it becomes. To improve your curiosity, get information from as many sources (来源) as possible when you learn about a topic. At the same time, read all kinds of books, watch or listen to speeches and ask questions. Don’t always get information in the same way. Instead, learn to understand the facts that different people know.

Don’t assume you already know everything. Instead, search for other possibilities and opinions. Remember, everyone knows something that you don’t know. Find out what it is, and ask about it. This lets you learn something and makes the other people happy by sharing their knowledge. Let’s try to become people who are full of curiosity.

A map is a picture of a place. There can be many different maps of the same place. A map cannot show everything about a place. For a good map, it must show many things. Let’s see how to make a map of your community (社区).

Before starting, make a list (列表) of what you want to show on the map. Think about places you and your friends often go to. How do you get there? What roads do you take? What kind of things do you see along the way? As you know, we need some maps to show location (where the places are) and other maps to show how to get there. These maps can also show the distances (距离).

Now let’s draw a map of your community. First, draw pictures of the places. Next, paint the places and roads in light colors. Third, fill in the areas with darker colors between the places and roads to make your map more interesting to look at.

At last, when you finish your map, show it to your friends or family members to see what they think of it.