Click on the inference that is most logical, based on the information given in the selection.
(1) Where does that road go? (2) How does a television set work? (3) What is that tool used for? (4) Answering
these questions may have no obvious benefit for you. (5) You may not expect the road to take you anywhere you
need to go, or the tool to be of any use to you. (6) Exploration and curiosity appear to be motives activated by the
new and unknown and directed toward no more specific a goal than "finding out." (7) Even animals will learn a
behavior just to be allowed to explore the environment. (8) The family dog will run around a new house, sniffing and
checking things out, before it settles down to eat its dinner.
(9) Animals also seem to prefer complexity, presumably because more complex forms take longer to know and are
therefore more interesting. (10) Placed in a maze that is painted black, a rat will explore the maze and learn its way
around. (11) The next time, given a choice between a black maze and a blue one, it will choose the blue one. (12)
Apparently the unfamiliarity of the unknown maze has more appeal.
1. Click on the logical inference.
a. Curiosity is always stronger than great hunger.
b. Curiosity is what separates people from animals.
c. We are curious about the unknown.