2020高考英语二轮阅读理解精选04外研版

2020;2020高考英语二轮阅读理解精选（04）及答案A(·昆明质检，A)I recently heard a story about a famous research scientist who

2020;2020高考英语二轮阅读理解精选（04）及答案 A (·昆明质检，A) Irecently heard astory about afamous research scientist who had made several very important medical achievements. Anewspaper reporter interviewed him why he was able to be so much more creative than the average person. What set him so far apart from others? He responded that it all came from an experience with his mother that occurred when he was about two years old. He had been trying to remove abottle of milk from the refrigerator when he dropped the slippery bottle, spilling its contents all over the kitchen floor—a real sea of milk! When his mother came into the kitchen，instead of shouting at him, giving him alecture or punishing him, she said, “Robert, what agreat and wonderful mess you have made! Ihave rarely seen such ahuge pool of milk. Well, the damage has already been done. Would you like to get down and play in the milk for afew minutes before we clean it up？” Indeed, the boy did. After afew minutes, his mother said, “You know, Robert, whenever you make amess like this, eventually you have to clean it up and restore everything to its proper order. How would you like to do that? We could use asponge(海绵)，a towel or amop. Which do you prefer？” He chose the sponge and together they cleaned up the spilled milk. His mother then said，“You know，what we have here is afailed experiment in how to effectively carry abig milk bottle with two tiny