11. Writing was invented a long time after the first map was drawn. A) True
12. The first map was a map of the night sky. A) True
13. The first map was made by the Babylonians. B) False
14. Babylonian map-makers were very rich men. C) Not known
15. Magellan's explorations helped the map-makers to Im¬prove their maps. A) True
16. Our planet is a perfect sphere. B) False
17. Modern maps are more detailed and accurate. A) True
18. The Amazon rainforest is gradually disappearing. A) True
19. The level of the Aral Sea has been increasing. B) False
20. Soon the traditional printed road maps may be out of use. A) True
Maps were made long before reading and writing were invented. The earliest map that we know of is a cave painting on the Lascaux caves in France. The painting shows a part of the summer night’s sky 16500 years ago. Modern astronomers can still understand the night sky shown in the map. A four thousand year old map made by the Ba¬bylonians is still in existence. Many ancient map-makers thought that the world was flat, but explorers like Magel¬lan in the 15th century sailed around the world and helped to make better maps. Besides, measurements taken by satel¬lites show that our planet Is slightly pear-shaped (грушевидная). Satellites have also provided more accurate Information and have helped to see and map parts of the world that were lit¬tle known or never seen by humans before. Satellites have photographed the Amazon rainforest and have shown that the area the size of twenty football pitches is being cut down (сокращается) every minute. Pictures taken from space have also shown that one of the world's largest areas of inland water, the Aral Sea, has been shrinking (усыхает) very quickly. Modern satel¬lite maps show the effects of global warming and pollution and help us to understand the world around us better. More and more drivers nowadays rely on satellite navigation in their cars so the traditional road maps may not be around much longer.
A car without a driver has a lot of ideas and projects, so the struggle for market leadership is just beginning. The first prototypes of unmanned vehicles are already being tested, but without a human they can not cope.
Just imagine how good life would be if you had your own driver. It would be convenient to fit in your car, read a newspaper, flip through social networks or swear while being taken through the restless traffic. In the future, this is likely to be available to a significantly larger number of people. Travel with comfort, reliability and safety, less damage to the environment - all this is promised by unmanned vehicles. Autonomous or self-driving vehicles are a new fad, and not only in the auto industry, but many of its promises still look fantastic.
Moreover, the market is getting closer to the competition. Carriers such as Uber have repeatedly presented their work on unmanned vehicles.
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All interested market players are already testing different machines that are somehow independent. The tests are conducted in California, Israel, China and Germany. So can individual drivers relax and drive while driving? Not yet - unmanned vehicles are still able to take on only some tasks from man. For example, some test specimens have learned to monitor "dead zones", stay in the lane or drive into parking lots. Although such partial automation is no longer a novelty - in premium-class cars, it has become commonplace.
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Составьте таблицу для различных этапов и типов образования в вашей стране, например таблицу А напротив. Как это соотносится с британской системой и с системой в других странах, представленных в вашем классе или о которой вы знаете? Можно ли найти удовлетворительные переводы на английский язык для всех аспектов образования в вашей стране?
(книга "English vocabulary in use")