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[2]. Read the following passage carefully and answer the question.
Passage: Long before satellites, map-makers drew the world from travellers' reports, sailors' logs and careful measurement. Early maps were often beautiful and sometimes wrong: coastlines were guessed, unknown lands were filled with pictures of monsters, and distances were stretched by error. Yet maps shaped history. A map could decide where a road was built, which port a ship would seek, and even which land a ruler claimed. Modern maps are far more accurate, but they still involve choices. Every map-maker must decide what to show and what to leave out, which places to name large and which to shrink. A map is therefore never a perfect mirror of the earth; it is an argument about what matters in it.
According to the passage, which of the following statements is true?
Option 1 : Early maps sometimes filled unknown lands with pictures of monsters and guessed at coastlines.
Detailed Solution
सही उत्तर Early maps sometimes filled unknown lands with pictures of monsters and guessed at coastlines. है।
The passage states: Early maps sometimes filled unknown lands with pictures of monsters and guessed at coastlines.
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[2]. Read the following passage carefully and answer the question.
Passage: Long before satellites, map-makers drew the world from travellers' reports, sailors' logs and careful measurement. Early maps were often beautiful and sometimes wrong: coastlines were guessed, unknown lands were filled with pictures of monsters, and distances were stretched by error. Yet maps shaped history. A map could decide where a road was built, which port a ship would seek, and even which land a ruler claimed. Modern maps are far more accurate, but they still involve choices. Every map-maker must decide what to show and what to leave out, which places to name large and which to shrink. A map is therefore never a perfect mirror of the earth; it is an argument about what matters in it.
According to the passage, which of the following statements is true?
Correct Answer: Early maps sometimes filled unknown lands with pictures of monsters and guessed at coastlines.
The passage states: Early maps sometimes filled unknown lands with pictures of monsters and guessed at coastlines.