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What was discovered by accident? The answer is penicillin (青霉素)! It kills germs. By killing germs, it saves lives. Suppose you are sick; you go to a doctor. She examines you. She says you have a "staph" infection (葡萄球菌感染). She gives you some medicine. You take it. The medicine knocks out the staph. Soon you feel well. Before penicillin, this could not happen. Staph was almost sure death. Everyone knows Alexander Fleming was doing research with penicillin one day and they gave the stuff in small dishes. Then they left it. Nothing worked. The laboratory dishes cover on stones. They kept things from falling into dishes. Molds (霉菌) were a big worry. They are always in the air. You can't see them. They're too small. There are thousands of different molds. Molds can make an experiment (实验) fail. That's why dishes are covered. Dr. Alexander Fleming was working to kill the staph germ. He worked for years. One day he took a covered dish. He looked inside. There was a thick growth of staph germ. There was also some mold. Then he saw something strange. Where the mold was, there was no growth of staph. This is what Fleming probably thought: "By accident, I found a mold to kill the dreaded staph." This is how penicillin was found. But here's the real miracle (奇迹) ! There are thousands of kinds of mold. But only one kind can kill staph. The mold must have fallen into the dish a few days before. The cover was probably off only a few seconds (秒) ! In those few seconds the right mold fell into the right dish. Another man might have thrown the dish away. Dr. Fleming was very careful and smart. He understood what the mold did. How lucky the humans were! During the experiments to find a medicine for staph infections, ______.
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