、词汇运用(10小题,每小题1分,共10分)
用方框中所给词语的适当形式填空,使短文通顺、完整。每空仅限一词,选项中有两项是多余选项
Maps are very useful and important to us today, but they are not a new____.In fact, people have made and used maps for __
_. It is believed that the first map of the world may be a 2,600-year-old clay map from Babylonia . People in the past did not__
____ what the world really __
__ like ,but they had many ideas about
___ .
Mapmakers could not draw accurate maps of the earth until people began traveling around the world in the____century,mapping small areas each time .In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, people _
__making correct maps of countries , but the accurate maps of the world were not made until the 1890s.
Maps today are reliable , cheap , and __ to understand . People depend on __
__ every day. What would our lives
be like _
__ them?
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