KKipank question 1/3
READING PASSAGE 2
Read the passage carefully and answer the questions below.
A. Almost certainly you have at one time in your life practiced ongami, even if it was just makking a paper airplane. Perhape it was something more sophisticated like a paper crane. The chances are that as you did it, you reflected on how ingenious this traditional Japanese art is. Animals,boxes.
flowers, boats-all can be created from a single square or rectangular sheet of paper simply by folding it-no cutting, no pasting.
B.But did you ever stop to think how the same techniques might be applied to engineer equipment that could be of real practical use? In fact, origamiinspired creations have already flown in space: in 1995, Japanese engineers launched a satellite with solar panels that folded like a map.
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