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F Nandawathie, a widow in the village, has taken full advantage of the opportunitiesthat rainwater harvesting has brought her family. With a better water supply nowclose at hand, she began by growing a few vegetables. The income from selling these helped her to open a small shop on her doorstep. This increased her earnings still further, enabling her to apply for a loan to install solar powerin her house. She is now thinking of building another tank in her garden sothat she can grow more vegetables. Nandawathie also feels safer now that she nolonger has to fetch water from the village well in the early morning orlateevening. She says that her children no longer complain so much of diarrhoea.And her daughter Sandamalee has more time for school work.
G In the short term, and on a small scale, the project has clearly been a success. The challenge lies in making such initiatives sustainable, and expending their coverage. At a purelytechnical level, rainwater harvesting is evidently sustainable. In Muthukandiya, the skills required to build and maintain storage tanks were taught fairly easily, and can be shared by the two trained masons,


3. What have been dug to supply water for daily household life
4. In which year did the plan of a new project to lessen the effect of drought begin
5. Where do the gutters and pipes collect rainwater from
6. What help family obtain more water for domestic needs than those relying on only wells and ponds
Question 7-14
Do the following statements agree with the information given in Reading Passage 1
Yes if the statement is true
No. if the statement is false
Not given if the statement is not given in the passage
7. Most of the government’s actions and other programmers have somewhat failed.
8. Masons were trained for the constructing parts of the rainwater harvesting system.
9. The cost of rainwater harvesting systems was shared by local villagers and the local government.
10. Tanks increase both the amount and quality of the water for domestic use.
11. To send her daughter to school. A widow had to work for a job in rainwater harvesting scheme.
12. Households benefited began to pay part of the maintenance or repairs.
13. Training two masons at the same tome is much more preferable to training single one.
14. Other organizations had built tanks larger in size than the tanks built in Muthukandya.
Passage题材题目题型Two自然动物Inspired by Mimicking Mother Nature判断题8 ,  Matching6
Inspired by mimicking mother nature.
Using the environment not as an exploitable resource, but as a source of inspiration
A 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


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.
C it’s only recently that mainstream companies have begun to equate biomimicry with the bottom line. Daimler Chrysler. 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 box fish 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.
D companies and communities are flocking to Janine Benyus, author of the landmark book Bio mimicry. Innovation inspired by Nature (Perennial, 2002) and confounder of the Biomimicry Guild, which seats biologists at the table with researcher and designer 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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