Contents:

- Counter-argument part 2
- Advanced grammar structure
- Topic: International Travel
- Reading

I. Counter-argument part 2

Topic: Some people think that children should begin their formal education at a very
early age. Some think they should begin at least 7 years old. Discuss both views and give
your own opinion.

Position: support early formal education

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- Opposing view: Children are given room to develop in their own way instead of
being confined to a highly standardized curriculum from an early age. This way,
more unique talents are likely to be unearthed, creating a generation which can
bring diversity to society.
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II. Advanced grammar structures:

1. Absolute phrase

NOUN + PARTICIPLE + OPTIONAL MODIFIER(S) AND/OR OBJECT(S)

- The government has erected many schools in remote areas. Less privileged
students in such regions are now able to come to class.

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- Many trees were felled by the authorities. Local residents went on a protest to
insist the government on leaving the green belt alone.

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2. Noun clause

Noun Clause Indicators: Noun clauses can be identified by specific indicators that signal
their presence in a sentence. These indicators include:

- Relative pronouns: who, whom, whose, which, and that

- Interrogative pronouns: what, who, whom, whose, which, and how
- Subordinating conjunctions: that, whether, if, how, when, where, why, and what

Examples:
- Noun clauses as the subject of the sentence
● That many political corruptions have been revealed recently is likely to arouse
public distrust.
● How people can actually benefit from space exploration remains controversial.
- Noun clauses as the object of the sentence
● It remains to be seen whether or not this idea can be put into practice.
● The essay discusses why an increasing number of urbanites opt for private cars
instead of public transport.
3. Cleft Sentences: It is .... that ....
- It is the pursuit of knowledge that drives scientific progress.
- It was the tireless efforts of our dedicated research team, working day and night
in the state-of-the-art laboratory equipped with cutting-edge technology, that
ultimately led to the groundbreaking discovery that could revolutionize the field
of medicine.
- It is the collaborative efforts of governments, non-governmental organizations,
and grassroots activists that have the potential to address the pressing global
challenges of climate change and resource depletion.
4. It is imperative that S (should) V
- It is imperative that governments around the world prioritize environmental
conservation and take decisive action to reduce carbon emissions to combat
climate change effectively.
- For a successful product launch, it is imperative that the marketing director create
a compelling advertising campaign.
- ​To maintain a healthy work-life balance, it is imperative that individuals be able to
disconnect from work and prioritize their well-being and personal life.
5. Given + N, S + V
 - Conserving endangered animals is not necessary, given the colossal cost and time
involved.
- Given the rising concerns about cybersecurity, companies are investing heavily in
enhancing their digital security measures.
- Given the profound impact of climate change on ecosystems and human
societies, it is incumbent upon us to take immediate and decisive action to
mitigate its effects through sustainable practices and responsible resource
management.

III. Topic: INTERNATIONAL TRAVEL

Topic 1: Nowadays, it is more convenient and easier for people to travel to other
countries. Is this a positive or negative development?

Related topics

- Today more and more developing countries are expanding their tourist industry.
Why is the case? Do you regard it as positive or negative?
- Some people think that cheap air travel should be encouraged because it gives
ordinary people the freedom to travel further. However, others think that this
leads to environmental problems, and so air travel should be more expensive in
order to discourage people from having it. Discuss both views and give your own
opinion.
- Air travel and telecommunication help the world have more contact. To what
extent do you agree that societies benefit from increased contact and closer
relationships with foreigners brought about by international tourism and
business?
 - Some people think that international travel makes them prejudiced rather than
broad-minded. Give reasons why people fail to benefit from travel and how to
improve the understanding of countries they visit.
- Air travel only benefits the richest people. The majority of people receive no
advantages from the development of air travel. To what extent do you agree or
disagree?
- Some people think foreign visitors should be charged more than local visitors
when they visit the cultural and historical attractions in another country. To what
extent do you agree or disagree?
- When visiting foreign countries, some people think it is advantageous to learn
their cultures and traditions. How do you think people should learn other cultures
and traditions? Why do you think some people are interested in learning those
traditions and cultures while others are not?

Topic 2: In some countries, it is possible to have a wide variety of food that has been
transported from all over the world. To what extent do you think its benefits outweigh
the drawbacks?

Related topics

- Air transport is increasingly used to export types of fruit and vegetables to

countries where they cannot be grown or are out of season. Some people believe
that this is good, while others think this is not justified. Discuss both views and
give your own opinion.
- Long-distance flights use more fuel than cars and bring more pollution to the
environment. We should discourage non-essential flights rather than limit the use
of cars. To what extent do you agree or disagree?
- Many people believe that countries should produce food for all population to eat
and import food as little as possible. To what extent do you agree or disagree?
- Some people believe that air travel should be restricted because it causes serious
pollution and uses up the world’s fuel resources. To what extent do you agree or
disagree?
READING

READING PASSAGE 1

Koalas

Koalas are just too nice for their own good. And except for the occasional baby taken by
birds of prey, koalas have no natural enemies. In an ideal world, the life of an arboreal
couch potato would be perfectly safe and acceptable.

Just two hundred years ago, koalas flourished across Australia. Now they seem to be in
decline, but exact numbers are not available as the species would not seem to be ‘under
threat’. Their problem, however, has been man, more specifically, the white man. Koala
and aborigine had co-existed peacefully for centuries.

Today koalas are found only in scattered pockets of southeast Australia, where they
seem to be at risk on several fronts. The koala’s only food source, the eucalyptus tree
has declined. In the past 200 years, a third of Australia’s eucalyptus forests have
disappeared. Koalas have been killed by parasites, chlamydia epidemics and a
tumour-causing retro-virus. And every year 11000 are killed by cars, ironically most of
them in wildlife sanctuaries, and thousands are killed by poachers. Some are also taken
illegally as pets. The animals usually soon die, but they are easily replaced.
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Bush fires pose another threat. The horrific ones that raged in New South Wales recently
killed between 100 and 1000 koalas. Many that were taken into sanctuaries and shelters
were found to have burnt their paws on the glowing embers. But zoologists say that the
species should recover. The koalas will be aided by the eucalyptus, which grows quickly
and is already burgeoning forth after the fires. So the main problem to their survival is
their slow reproductive rate – they produce only one baby a year over a reproductive
lifespan of about nine years.

The latest problem for the species is perhaps more insidious. With plush, grey fur, dark
amber eyes and button nose, koalas are cuddliness incarnate. Australian zoos and
wildlife parks have taken advantage of their uncomplaining attitudes, and charge visitors
to be photographed hugging the furry bundles. But people may not realise how cruel
this is, but because of the koala’s delicate disposition, constant handling can push an
already precariously balanced physiology over the edge.

Koalas only eat the foliage of certain species of eucalyptus trees, between 600 and 1250
grams a day. The tough leaves are packed with cellulose, tannins, aromatic oils and
precursors of toxic cyanides. To handle this cocktail, koalas have a specialised digestive
system. Cellulose- digesting bacteria in the break down fibre, while a specially adapted
gut and liver process the toxins. To digest their food properly, koalas must sit still for 21
hours every day.

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Koalas are the epitome of innocence and inoffensiveness. Although they are capable of
ripping open a man’s arm with their needle-sharp claws, or giving a nasty nip, they
simply wouldn’t. If you upset a koala, it may blink or swallow, or hiccup. But attack? No
way! Koalas are just not aggressive. They use their claws to grip the hard smooth bark of
eucalyptus trees.

They are also very sensitive, and the slightest upset can prevent them from breeding,
cause them to go off their food, and succumb to gut infections. Koalas are stoic
creatures and put on a brave face until they are at death’s door. One day they may
appear healthy, the next they could be dead. Captive koalas have to be weighed daily to
check that they are feeding properly. A sudden loss of weight is usually the only warning
keepers have that their charge is ill. Only two keepers plus a vet were allowed to handle
London Zoo’s koalas, as these creatures are only comfortable with people they know. A
request for the koala to be taken to meet the Queen was refused because of the distress
this would have caused the marsupial. Sadly, London’s Zoo no longer has a koala. Two
years ago the female koala died of a cancer caused by a retrovirus. When they come into
heat, female koalas become more active, and start losing weight, but after about sixteen
days, heat ends and the weight piles back on. London’s koala did not. Surgery revealed
hundreds of pea-sized tumours.

Almost every zoo in Australia has koalas – the marsupial has become the Animal
Ambassador of the nation, but nowhere outside Australia would handling by the public
be allowed. Koala cuddling screams in the face of every rule of good care. First, some
zoos allow koalas to be passed from stranger to stranger, many children who love to
squeeze. Secondly, most people have no idea of how to handle the animals; they like to
cling on to their handler, all in their own good time and use his or her arm as a tree. For
such reasons, the Association of Fauna and Marine parks, an Australian conservation
society is campaigning to ban koala cuddling. Policy on koala handling is determined by
state government authorities. “And the largest of the numbers in the Australian Nature
Conservation Agency, with the aim of instituting national guidelines. Following a wave of
publicity, some zoos and wildlife parks have stopped turning their koalas into photo.

Questions 1-5

Choose the correct letter, A, B, C or D.

1 The main reason why koala declined is that they are killed EXCEPT FOR

A by poachers

B by diseases they got

C giving too many birth yet survived little!

D accidents on the road

2 What can help koalas folly digest their food?

A toxic substance in the leaves

B organs that dissolve the fibres

C remaining inactive for a period to digest

D eating eucalyptus trees

3 What would koalas do when facing the dangerous situation?

A show signs of being offended

B counter attack furiously

C use sharp claws to rip the man

D use claws to grip the bark of trees.

4 In what ways Australian zoos exploit koalas?

A encourage people to breed koalas as pets

B allow tourists to hug the koalas

C put them on the trees as a symbol

D establish a koala campaign

5 What would the government do to protect koalas from being endangered?

A introduce koala protection guidelines

B close some of the zoos

C encourage people to resist visiting the zoos

D persuade the public to learn more knowledge

Questions 6-12

Do the following statements agree with the information given in Reading Passage 1?

In boxes 6-12 on your answer sheet, write

YES if the statement agrees with the information

NO if the statement contradicts the information

NOT GIVEN if there is no information on this passage

6 new coming human settlers caused danger to koalas.

7 Koalas can still be seen in most of the places in Australia.

8 it takes decade for the eucalyptus trees to recover after the fire.

9 Koalas will fight each other when food becomes scarce.

10 It is not easy to notice that koalas are ill.

11 Koalas are easily infected with human contagious disease via cuddling

12 Koalas like to hold a person’s arm when they are embraced.

Question 13
Choose the correct letter, A, B, C or D.

Write the correct letter in box 13 on your answer sheet.

From your opinion this article written by

A a journalist who write for magazine

B a zoo keeper in London Zoo.

C a tourist who traveling back from Australia

D a government official who studies koalas to establish a law

READING PASSAGE 2

The Conquest of Malaria in Italy, 1900-1962

Mal-aria. Bad air. Even the world is Italian, and this horrible disease marked the life of
those in the peninsula for thousands of years. Yet by 1962, Italy was officially declared
malaria-free, and it has remained so ever since. Frank Snowden’s study of this success
story takes us to areas historians have rarely visited before.

Everybody now knows that malaria is carried by mosquitoes. But in the 19th century,
most experts believed that the disease was produced by “miasma” or “poisoning of the
air”. Others made a link between swamps, water and malaria, but did not make the
future leap towards insects. The consequences of these theories were that little was
done to combat the disease before the end of the century. Things became so bad that
11m Italians (from a total population of 25m) were “permanently at risk”. In malarial
zones the life expectancy of land workers was a terrifying 22.5 years. Those who escaped
death were weakened or suffered from splenomegaly –a “painful enlargement of the
spleen” and “a lifeless stare”. The economic impact of the disease was immense.
Epidemics were blamed on southern Italians, given the widespread belief that malaria
was hereditary. In the 1880s, such theories began to collapse as the dreaded mosquito
was identified as the real culprit.

Italian scientists, drawing on the pioneering work of French doctor Alphonse Laveran,
were able to predict the cycles of fever but it was in Rome that further key discoveries
were made. Giovanni Battista Grassi, a naturalist, found that a particular type of
mosquito was the carrier of malaria. By experimenting on healthy volunteers
(mosquitoes were released into rooms where they drank the blood of the human guinea
pigs), Grassi was able to make the direct link between the insects (all females of a
certain kind) and the disease. Soon, doctors and scientists made another startling
discovery: the mosquitoes themselves were also infected and not mere carriers. Every
year, during the mosquito season, malarial blood was moved around the population by
the insects. Definitive proof of these new theories was obtained after an extraordinary
series of experiments in Italy, where healthy people were introduced into malarial zones
but kept free of mosquito bites –and remained well. The new Italian state had the
necessary information to tackle the disease.

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A complicated approach was adopted, which made use of quinine –a drug obtained from
tree bark which had long been used to combat fever, but was now seen as a crucial part
of the war on malaria. Italy introduced a quinine law and a quinine tax in 1904, and the
drug was administered to large numbers of rural workers. Despite its often terrible
side-effects (the headaches produced were known as the “quinine-buzz”) the drug was
successful in limiting the spread of the disease, and in breaking cycles of infection. In
addition, Italy set up rural health centres and invested heavily in education programmes.
Malaria, as Snowden shows, was not just a medical problem, but a social and regional
issue, and could only be defeated through multilayered strategies. Politics was itself
transformed by the anti-malarial campaigns. It was originally decided to give quinine to
all those in certain regions – even healthy people; peasants were often suspicious of
medicine being forced upon them. Doctors were sometimes met with hostility and
refusal, and many were dubbed “poisoners”.

Despite these problems, the strategy was hugely successful. Deaths from malaria fell by
some 80% in the first decade of the 20th century and some areas escaped altogether
from the scourge of the disease. War, from 1915-18, delayed the campaign. Funds were
diverted to the battlefields and the fight against malaria became a military issue, laying
the way for the fascist approach to the problem. Mussolini’s policies in the 20s and 30s
subjected to a serious cross-examination by Snowden. He shows how much of the
regime’s claims to have “eradicated” malaria through massive land reclamation, forced
population removals and authoritarian clean-ups were pure propaganda. Mass draining
was instituted –often at a great cost as Mussolini waged war not on the disease itself,
but on the mosquitoes that carried it. The cleansing of Italy was also ethnic, as “carefully
selected” Italians were chosen to inhabit the gleaming new towns of the former
marshlands around Rome. The “successes” under fascism were extremely vulnerable,
based as they were on a top-down concept of eradication. As war swept through the
drained lands in the 40s, the disease returned with a vengeance.

In the most shocking part of the book, Snowden describes –passionately, but with the
skill of a great historian –how the retreating Nazi armies in Italy in 1934- 44 deliberately
caused a massive malaria epidemic in Lazio. It was “the only known example of
biological warfare in 20th century Europe”. Shamefully, the Italian malaria expert Alberto
Missiroli had a role to play in the disaster: he did not distribute quinine, despite being
well aware of the epidemic to come. Snowden claims that Missiroli was already
preparing a new strategy –with the support of the US Rockefeller Foundation-using a
new pesticide, DDT. Missiroli allowed the epidemic to spread, in order to create the ideal
conditions for a massive, a lucrative, human experiment. Fifty-five thousand cases of
malaria were recorded in the province of Littoria alone in 1944. It is estimated that more
than a third of those in the affected area contracted the disease. Thousands, nobody
knows how many, died. With the war over, the US government and the Rockefeller
Foundation were free to experiment. DDT was sprayed from the air and 3m Italians had
their bodies covered with the chemical. The effects were dramatic, and nobody really
cared about the toxic effects of the chemical.

By 1962, malaria was more or less gone from the whole peninsula. The last cases were
noted in a poor region of Sicily. One of the final victims to die of the disease in Italy was
the popular cyclist, Fausto Coppi. He had contracted malaria in Africa in 1960, and the
failure of doctors in the north of Italy to spot the disease was a sign of the times. A few
decades earlier, they would have immediately noticed the tell-tale signs; it was later
claimed that a small dose of quinine would have saved his life. As there are still more
than 1m deaths every year from malaria worldwide, Snowden’s book also has
contemporary relevance. This is a disease that affects every level of the societies where
it is rampant. It also provides us with “a message of hope for a world struggling with the
great present-day medical emergency”.

Questions 14-18

Complete the summary below using NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS from the passage.

Write your answer in boxes 14-18 on your answer sheet.

Before the link between malaria and 14 ________ was established, there were many
popular theories circulating among the public, one of which points to 15 ________, the
unclean air. The lack of proper treatment affected the country so badly that rural people
in malaria infested places had extremely short 16 ________. The disease spread so
quickly, especially in the south of Italy, thus giving rise to the idea that the disease was
17________. People believed in these theories until mosquito was found to be the 18
________ in the 1880s.

Questions 19-21

Do the following statements agree with the claims of the writer in Reading Passage 2?

In boxes 19-21 on your answer sheet, write

TRUE if the statement agrees with the information

FALSE if the statement contradicts the information

NOT GIVEN if there is no information on this

19 The volunteers of the Italian experiments that provided assuring evidence were
from all over Italy.

20 It’s possible to come out of malarial zones alive.

21 The government successfully managed to give all people quinine medication.

Question 22-26

Reading Passage 2 has six paragraphs, A-F.

Which paragraph contains the following information?

Write the correct letter, A-F, in boxes 22-26 on your answer sheet.

22 A breakthrough in the theory of the cause of malaria

23 A story for today’s readers

24 A description of an expert who didn’t do anything to restrict the spread of disease

25 A setback in the battle against malaria due to government policies

26 A description of how malaria affects the human body

READING PASSAGE 3

You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 27-40 which are based on Reading
Passage 3 below.

Inspired by Mimicking Mother Nature

Using the environment not as an exploitable resource, but as a source of inspiration

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Researchers and designers around the globe endeavor to create new technologies that,
by honoring the tenets of life, are both highly efficient and often environmentally
friendly. And while biomimicry is not a new concept (Leonardo da Vinci looked to nature
to design his flying machines, for example, and pharmaceutical companies have long
been miming plant organisms in synthetic drugs), there is a greater need for products
and manufacturing processes that use a minimum of energy, materials, and toxins.
What’s more, due to technological advancements and a newfound spirit of innovation
among designers, there are now myriad ways to mimic Mother Nature’s best assets.
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“We have a perfect storm happening right now,” says Jay Harman, an inventor and CEO
of PAX Scientific, which designs fans, mixers, and pumps to achieve maximum efficiency
by imitating the natural flow of fluids. “Shapes in nature are extremely simple once you
understand them, but to understand what geometries are at play, and to adapt them, is
a very complex process. We only just recently have had the computer power and
manufacturing capability to produce these types of shapes.” “If we could capture
nature’s efficiencies across the board, we could decrease dependency on fuel by at least
50 percent,” Harman says. “What we’re finding already with the tools and methodology
we have right now is that we can reduce energy consumption by between 30 and 40
percent.”
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It’s only recently that mainstream companies have begun to equate biomimicry with the
bottom line. DaimlerChrysler, for example, introduced a prototype car modeled on a
coral reef fish. Despite its boxy, cube-shaped body, which defies a long-held
aerodynamic standard in automotive design (the raindrop shape), the streamlined
boxfish proved to be aerodynamically ideal and the unique construction of its
skin—numerous hexagonal, bony plates—a perfect recipe for designing a car of
maximum strength with minimal weight.
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Companies and communities are flocking to Janine Benyus, author of the landmark book
Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature (Perennial, 2002) and cofounder of the
Biomimicry Guild, which seats biologists at the table with researchers and designers at
companies such as Nike, Interface carpets, Novell, and Procter & Gamble. Their objective
is to marry industrial problems with natural solutions.
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Benyus, who hopes companies will ultimately transcend mere product design to
embrace nature on a more holistic level, breaks biomimicry into three tiers. On a basic
(albeit complicated) level, industry will mimic nature’s precise and efficient shapes,
structures, and geometries. The microstructure of the lotus leaf, for example, causes
raindrops to bead and run off immediately, while self-cleaning and drying its surface—a
discovery that the British paint company Sto has exploited in a line of building paints.
The layered structure of a butterfly wing or a peacock plume, which creates iridescent
color by refracting light, is being mimicked by cosmetics giant L’Oreal in a
soon-to-be-released line of eye shadow, lipstick, and nail varnish.
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The next level of biomimicry involves imitating natural processes and biochemical
“recipes”: Engineers and scientists are now looking at the nasal glands of seabirds to
solve the problem of desalination; the abalone’s ability to self-assemble its incredibly
durable shell in water, using local ingredients, has inspired an alternative to the
conventional, and often toxic, “heat, beat, and treat” manufacturing method. How other
organisms deal with harmful bacteria can also be instructive: Researchers for the
Australian company Biosignal, for instance, observed a seaweed that lives in an
environment teeming with microbes to figure out how it kept free of the same sorts of
bacterial colonies, called biofilms, that cause plaque on your teeth and clog up your
bathroom drain. They determined that the seaweed uses natural chemicals, called
furanones, that jam the cell-to-cell signaling systems that allow bacteria to communicate
and gather.
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Ultimately, the most sophisticated application of biomimicry, according to Benyus, is
when a company starts seeing itself as an organism in an economic ecosystem that must
make thrifty use of limited resources and creates symbiotic relationships with other
organisms. A boardroom approach at this level begins with imagining any given
company, or collection of industries, as a forest, prairie, or coral reef, with its own “food
web”(manufacturing inputs and outputs) and asking whether waste products from one
manufacturing process can be used, or perhaps sold, as an ingredient for another
industrial activity. For instance, Geoffrey Coates, a chemist at Cornell, has developed a
biodegradable plastic synthesized from carbon dioxide and limonene (a major
component in the oil extracted from citrus rind) and is working with a cement factory to
trap their waste CO2 and use it as an ingredient.
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Zero Emissions Research and Initiatives (ZERI), a global network of scientists,
entrepreneurs, and educators, has initiated eco-industrial projects that attempt to find
ways to reuse all wastes as raw materials for other processes. Storm Brewing in
Newfoundland, Canada—in one of a growing number of projects around the world
applying ZERI principles—is using spent grains, a by-product of the beer-making process,
to make bread and grow mushrooms.
As industries continue to adopt nature’s models, entire manufacturing processes could
operate locally, with local ingredients like the factories that use liquefied beach sand to
make windshields. As more scientists and engineers begin to embrace biomimicry,
natural organisms will come to be regarded as mentors, their processes deemed
masterful.

Questions 27-32

Look at the following descriptions mentioned in Reading Passage 3.

Match the three kinds of levels (A-C) listed below the descriptions.
Write the appropriate letters, A-C, in boxes 27-32 on your answer sheet.

A First level: mimic nature’s precise and efficient shapes, structures, and geometries
B Second level: imitating natural processes and biochemical ‘recipes’
C Third level: creates symbiotic relationships with other like organisms

27 Synthesized Plastic, developed together with cement factory, can recycle waste gas.
28 Cosmetics companies produce a series of shine cosmetics colours
29 People are inspired how to remove excess salt inspired by nature.
30 Daimler Chrysler introduced a fish-shaped car.
31 Marine plan company integrated itself into a part in economic ecosystem
32 natural chemicals developed based on seaweed known to kill bacteria

Questions 33-40

Do the following statements agree with the information given in Reading Passage 3?
In boxes 33-40 on your answer sheet, write
YES if the statement is true
NO if the statement is false
NOT GIVEN if the information is not given in the passage
33 Biomimicry is a totally new concept that has been unveiled recently.
34 Leonardo da Vinci has been the first designer to mimic nature
35 Scientists believe it involves more than mimicking the shape to capture the design in
nature
36 We can save the utilisation of energy by up to 40% if we take advantage of the
current findings.
37 Daimler Chrysler’s prototype car modelled on a coral reef fish is a best-seller.
38 Some great companies and communities themselves are seeking solutions beyond
their own industrial scope
39 The British paint company Sto did not make the microstructure of the lotus leaf,
applicable
40 a Canadian beer Company increased the production by applying ZERI principles