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阅读短文，用所给的词或词的适当形式填空。

　　Maps are very useful and important to us today, but they re not a new 　　1　　．In fact, people have made and used maps for 　　2　　．It is 　　3　　 that the first map of the world 　　4　　 be a 2600-year-old clay(黏土)map from Babylonia．People in the past did not know what the world really looked like, but they had many ideas about 　　5　　．

　　Mapmakers could not draw accurate(精确)maps of the earth until people started traveling around the world in the 　　6　　 century, mapping small areas each time．In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, people 　　7　　 making correct maps of countries, but the accurate maps of the world were not made until 1890s．

　　Maps today are 　　8　　 , cheap and easy to understand．People depend on maps 　　9　　 day．What would our lives be like 　　10　　 them?

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1．invention 　　2．centuries 　　3．believed 　　4．may 　　5．it 　　6．fifteenth 　　7．began 　　8．helpful 　　9．every 　　10．without