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IWe have street maps, bus maps, train maps and road maps. We have maps of our countries, maps of the oceans, and maps of the world. We even have maps of other planets, such as Venus and Mars. These modern maps are very useful and important to us today, but maps are not a new invention. In fact, people have made and used maps for centuries.n Iraq, archaeologists(考古学家) discovered maps that are over 4,300 years old. These maps were made of clay(陶土). In China, archaeologists discovered silk(丝绸) maps that are 2,000 years old. However, historians believe that mapmaking in China is much older than 2,000 years. All these maps represented small areas, for example, farmland and towns. Archaeologists believe that the first map of the world may be a 2,600-year-old clay map from Babylonia (in modern Iraq). Ancient people did not know what the world really looked like, but they had many ideas about it. The Babylonian map shows the Earth as a flat(平的) circle. The circle has a huge ocean with several islands in it. Other ancient maps showed the Earth on the back of a turtle, with four elephants holding the Earth up. For centuries, people wondered how big the Earth was. But, as they thought the Earth was flat, no one was able to calculate its size. Gradually, however, people began to realize that the Earth was really like a huge ball. Then, in the third century B.C. (2,300 years ago), a Greek man named Eratosthenes had an idea that the Earth was a huge ball. For many centuries after Eratosthenes lived, people made maps of the Earth. However, they did not know very much about the world outside of Europe, Asia, and North Africa. Mapmakers could not draw exact maps of the Earth until people began traveling around the world in the fifteenth century and mapping small areas each time. In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, people began making correct maps of countries, but the first exact maps of the world were not made until the 1890s. Maps today are well-made, inexpensive, and easy to understand. People depend on maps every day. What would our lives be like without them? 105．根据短文内容完成填空（每空限填一个单词）。 From the first paragraph of the passage, we know we have many ___________ types of modern maps today, but maps were___________ long time ago. 106．根据短文内容完成句子（每空限填一个单词）。 According to the passage, the _____________ clay maps discovered in Iraq were made over 4,300 years ago, but the ______________clay map of the world might be made about 2,600 years old. 107．根据短文内容完成句子（每空限填一个单词）。 According to the passage, what did people think of the Earth before the third century B.C. (2,300 years ago)? ____________________________________________________________________________ 108．把短文中画底线的句子译成汉语。 _______________________________________________________________________ 109．根据短文内容用一个完整的英文句子(限10个词以内)回答问题。 What is the passage mainly about? ________________________________________________________________________

解题思路： 如下
解题过程：
105．根据短文内容完成填空（每空限填一个单词）。
From the first paragraph of the passage, we know we have many __kinds__ types of modern maps today, but maps were__made___ long time ago.
106．根据短文内容完成句子（每空限填一个单词）。
According to the passage, the ___oldest__ clay maps discovered in Iraq were made over 4,300 years ago, but the ____first_clay map of the world might be made about 2,600 years old.
107．根据短文内容完成句子（每空限填一个单词）。
According to the passage, what did people think of the Earth before the third century B.C.
(2,300 years ago)?
______They thought the Earth was flat,no one was able to calculate its size.___________
108．把短文中画底线的句子译成汉语。
____直到15世纪，人们开始环游世界，并每次将小区域绘制出来，地图制作者们才制出了准确的地球地图。______
109．根据短文内容用一个完整的英文句子(限10个词以内)回答问题。
What is the passage mainly about?
The development of the map of the world.
最终答案：略