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Passage 1 As a boy, like many others, I used to love looking through maps. My family spent the 　1　 holidays beside the coast in Dorset, in southern England, and on the 　2　 of the cottage where we stayed there was a large framed 　3　 of an Ordnance Survey map from 1963, 　4　 the surrounding area at a scale of six inches to one mile. 　5　 it rained—which, since this was summertime in Britain, was very often—I would 　6　 this black-and-white map, marvelling(感到惊奇) at its complex system of marks and symbols. Even today, when I go for a long walk in the countryside, I still like to 　7　 an OS Explorer map. Its 　8　 than, say, an app on my smartphone, which is prone to run out of power, or losing its 　9　. This is the thing about maps: properly 　10　, they feel objective and authoritative(权威性的) — 　11　 tools that allow us to locate ourselves within the world. Indeed, the Ordnance Survey, Britains famous mapping agency, still 　12　 itself on being as comprehensive and　13　 as possible. Today it has 　14　 developed into a digital powerhouse maintaining an enormous 　15　 of geographical information. All of its maps are produced from its 　16　 ＂OS MasterMap＂of Great Britain, which 　17　 more than 460 million geographic features and is continually 　18　 — astonishingly, more than 10 000 times a day — by a team of 270 surveyors using GPS 　19　. ＂Our survey is to centimetre accuracy,＂ explains OS sector manager Elaine Owen, ＂our mapping database is the most 　20　 geographical database in the world.＂ 1. A.spring B.summer C.autumn D.winter 2. A.floor B.wall C.TV D.desk 3. A.sheet B.book C.picture D.paper 4. A.drawing B.representing C.dotting D.charting 5. A.However B.Wherever C.Whenever D.If 6. A.study B.write C.read D.observe[来源:学科网] 7. A.buy B.borrow C.pack D.draw 8. A.cheaper B.more reliable C.more convenient D.simpler 9. A.map B.systems C.information D.signal 10. A.carried B.packed C.produced D.studied