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The Attraction of Maps.
People often ask why any map is made at all. It's a good question. A highly developed visual sense of expression is by no means a universal attribute, nor does everybody easily translate a mental image landscape into a plan. Many people are ballled rather than (1)____ by a map. Although maps have an (2)____history, from the earliest times onwards, their variety and adaptability have always been (3)_____ rather unjustly in my view, as a fairly (4)_____ and minority form of (5)____ expression. However, for collectors or map historians, it is the intimacy of each map and personalities and circumstances behind its (6)____ that offers both challenge and reward. The challenge of map history derives less from studying the quite (7)_____ level of draughtsmanship needed to create a map, than from understanding the human (8)_____ required and the motives of those who created and used maps in the past. One of the best known maps of the earth's surface was developed by a Flemish (9)____ in the sixteenth century. His cylindrical projection, known as Mercator's projection, was named after him and is still used today for navigation charts. Maps are drawn on a blank surface, but not with a blank mind: they (10)_____ points of view, not simply a physical viewpoint. 1. light 2. intrigue 3. miss 4. signify 5. graph 6. conceive 7. outstand 8. put 9. geography 10. example. Помогите пожалуйста!! дам хорошие балы !!
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The Attraction of Maps.
People often ask why any map is made at all. It's a good question. A highly developed visual sense of expression is by no means a universal attribute, nor does everybody easily translate a mental image landscape into a plan. Many people are baffled rather than (1) intrigued by a map. Although maps have an (2) intriguing history, from the earliest times onwards, their variety and adaptability have always been (3) missed rather unjustly in my view, as a fairly (4) light and minority form of (5) graphical expression. However, for collectors or map historians, it is the intimacy of each map and personalities and circumstances behind its (6) conception that offers both challenge and reward. The challenge of map history derives less from studying the quite (7) outstanding level of draughtsmanship needed to create a map, than from understanding the human (8) input required and the motives of those who created and used maps in the past. One of the best-known maps of the earth's surface was developed by a Flemish (9) geographer in the sixteenth century. His cylindrical projection, known as Mercator's projection, was named after him and is still used today for navigation charts. Maps are drawn on a blank surface, but not with a blank mind: they (10) exemplify points of view, not simply a physical viewpoint.