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Can you imagine traveling without maps? If there wasn't a map of the London Underground at each station, setting off from Oxford University to London Bridge would be 1.__________. And you would even lose your way.
So how did people know the directions and distances (距离) before maps were 2.____________? It was quite easy for people to use natural signs like mountains, rivers and coastlines many years 3.__________. And it was also common to use 4.__________ to measure(测量) journeys. For example, people just needed to remember it took 5.__________ three hours to reach the next village.
In fact, people didn't draw 6.____________ and roads in the earliest maps. They drew stars instead because it was very easy to see them in the sky at night. 7._________ people built towns and cities, they drew road maps. So they could know correct distances and directions even when they went somewhere 8._________ foot.
Nowadays, of course, you are able to 9.__________ a bike, drive a car or go through a forest. You can also know 10.__________ you are exactly by using a mobile phone with GPS. It will show you what your exact location is. People don't worry about getting lost any more. What a wonderful thing it is!
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Chocolate was first enjoyed by people in South America hundreds of years ago. At that time, people used cocoa beans(可可豆) to make a chocolate drink 1.__________ enjoyed it very much. Many years later, the cocoa beans were brought to other 2.____________, such as the USA, Britain and France.
In 1824, John Cadbury 3.__________ a small shop in Britain to sell chocolate drinks. Many people came to buy them. A few years later, Joseph Fry, 4.__________ a way to make chocolate bars(棒). It was the fi