Directions: In this section, you will hear a passage three times. When
the passage is read for the first time, you should listen carefully for its
general idea. When the passage is read for the second time, you are required to
fill in the blanks numbered from 36 to 43 with the exact words you have just
heard. For blanks numbered from 44 to 46 you are required to fill in the missing
information. For these blanks, you can either use the exact words you have just
heard or write down the main points in your own words. Finally, when the passage
is read for the third time, you should check what you have written.
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.