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according, compass, good, as, use, between, 

well, east, same, bowl, south, necessary

  The compass is very 1     for guiding ships and  planes. Hikers often need  a 2        ,too. A compass will always make it possible for you  to know where is the     north.    

  The compass is a special magnet (磁体). The  Chinese were the first people to use the magnet 3      a compass. They first used compasses to guide their ships 4      the years 100 BC and AD 100. Their compasses were simple and not convenient.

  To make their compass,these early Chinese people placed the magnet needle (磁针)on soft wood and then put them in a 5      of water. The floating (不固定的) magnet turned easily,and made itself with the directions,north and 6     

Later the Chinese invention was put together with a Babylonian (巴比伦人的)invention,the degree. A compass points out directions 7      to degrees. There are sixteen main points on a compass. Each main point is the 8        as a certain number of degrees. North on the compass,for example,is 0°C,east is 90Tl , and so on.

  Compasses worked 9      on wooden ships. But when metal ships appeared in the 1800s,the simple magnetic compass was not correct any more. Many kinds of new compasses begin to be 10      for sailing.

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