1 . Did you know that creating a product that fails terribly could get you featured in a museum? Hundreds of failed products and inventions are getting attention and appreciation in the Museum of Failure in Hollywood.

It is the brainchild of Samuel West, a Swedish psychologist who created it to change the way people think about failure. “Failure is necessary for any kind of progress,” West said. It had a traveling exhibition in Shanghai in 2019 with over 100 “failed” products from big-name companies such as Nokia, Apple and Coca-Cola. “I really hope you see that these well-known brands that everybody respects screw up too,” West told the New York Times.

West's opinion isn't new. The famed physicist Albert Einstein once said, “A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.” This idea has even been embraced by big companies in Silicon Valley. A common slogan is “Fail fast, fail often.” “The best companies are those that encourage failure, embrace out-of-the-box thinking, and allow employees to make mistakes and see what happens,” wrote Simon Custo of Forbes.

But some people are skeptical of this so-called “culture of failure”. They are worried that if failure becomes “a badge (徽章) of honor”, it may even be seen as “uncool” when someone tries to reduce the risk of failure. This may lead to carelessness and lack of effort. “Sometimes people hide behind failure, when they could have prevented,” wrote Anna Issac of The Telegraph.

So it's important that people set apart the 2 kinds of failure: the kind that shows laziness or incompetence and the kind that takes you forward. The key is whether you've learned something from your mistakes.

1. Why did Samuel West found the Museum of Failure?

A．To get himself famous all over the world.

B．To practice Albert Einstein's view on mistakes.

C．To draw people's attention to the value of failure.

D．To exhibit the failed products from big companies.

2. What does the underlined phrase “screw up” in paragraph 2 probably mean?

A．Make a mess.

B．Bring much damage.

C．Contribute little.

D．Break the rules.

3. What can we learn from paragraph 4?

A．Acknowledgement of failure is glorious.

B．Carelessness and laziness lead to failure.

C．Learning from mistakes is the key to progress.

D．Risk of failure should be reduced with efforts.

4. What does the author think of failure?

A．Failure is a badge of honor.

B．Don't come home as a failure.

C．Face failure and find the reasons.

D．Better to fail early than to fail late.