CBSE ENGLISH LANGUAGE & LITERATURE

CLASS 10

THE MAKING OF A SCIENTIST

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
At what grade did Richard get hint of what real science is?
A
fourth grade
B
fifths grade
C
sixth grade
D
Seventh grade
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Answer. Richard Ebright was in seventh grade when he got a hint of what real science was.

Detailed explanation-2: -Richard got a hint what real science is in 7th grade when he entered a county science fair .

Detailed explanation-3: -Then in the seventh grade he got a hint of what real science is when he entered a county science fair-and lost. “It was really a sad feeling to sit there and not get anything while everybody else had won something, ” Ebright said. His entry was slides of frog tissues, which he showed under a microscope.

Detailed explanation-4: -When Ebright was in seventh grade, he participated in a country science fair and lost. The reason of his failure was that he only displayed slides of frog tissues under a microscope. There was no real “experiment” in his display. From this failure he learnt what real science is.

Detailed explanation-5: -He presented slides of flower tissues under a microscope. After losing at the science fair, he was feeling sad to sit there and get nothing while everbody else won something. 3.

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