填空题

Art, said Picasso, is a lie that makes us realize the truth. So is a map~ We do not usually (36) the precise work of the mapmaker with a (37) object of art. Yet a map has many qualities that a painting or a poem has. It is truth realized in a (38) way, holding meanings it does not express on the surface. And like work of art, it requires (39) reading.
Thus, map and reality are not, and cannot be, (40) No aspect of map use is so obvious yet so often (41) Most map reading mistakes occur because the user forgets this (42) fact and expect a one-to-one (43) between map and reality.
(44) . To understand a painting, you must have some idea of the medium which was used by the artist. You wouldn’t expect a water color to look anything like an oil painting or a charcoal drawing, even if the subject matter of all three were the same. (45) . As a map-reader, you should always be aware of the invisible hand of the mapmaker. (46) The mapmaker translates reality into the clearest possible picture under the circumstances, and the map-reader converts this picture back into an impression of the environment. For such communication to take place, the map-reader as well as the mapmaker must know something about how maps are created.

【参考答案】

imaginative