"How many experiments have you done for the new medicine?" A reporter asked a famous scientist in an interview .
"Maybe over one thousand. Too many to count." The scientist smiled.
"Have you ever been bored with the job and thought about giving up, especially when you failed again and again in experiments?" The reporter was surprised.
"Never. " The scientist answered.
"What makes you different from others?" The reporter continued.
The scientist replied, " I think it all came from an experience in my childhood. At the age of four, I was trying to get a bottle of a milk from a fridge. The bottle got out of my hands and fell, making all the milk over the kitchen floor. When my mother came and saw all the mess, she didn't shout at me angrily. Instead, she said, 'Jimmy, it's such a pool of milk. Well, would you like to get down and play in the milk before we clean it up?'So I started playing in the milk. After a few minutes I cleaned it with my mother's help. She then said, "Now let's go out in the backyard, fill the bottle with water and see if you can carry it without dropping it.' That way I learned that if I held a bottle at the top with both hands, I could carry it without dropping it."
"From then on, I knew that I didn't need to be afraid of making mistakes, because I can learn something new from mistakes. And that's what scientific experiments are all about." the scientist added.
a. Jimmy's mother came and saw all the mess
b. Jimmy played in the milk.
c. Jimmy dropped a bottle of milk.
d. Jimmy learned how to carry bottle without dropping it.
e. Jimmy cleaned the floor with the help of his mother.
