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In this video, we covered these passages and questions from CAT 2017:
Passage 1: Understanding where you are in the world is a basic survival skill, which is why we, like most species come hard-wired with specialised brain areas to create cognitive maps of our surroundings. Where humans are unique, though, with the possible exception of honeybees, is that we try to communicate this understanding of the world with others. We have a long history of doing this by drawing maps - the earliest versions yet discovered were scrawled on cave walls 14,000 years ago. Human cultures have been drawing them on stone tablets, papyrus, paper and now computer screens ever since.
1. Which one of the following best describes what the passage is trying to do?
2. Early maps did NOT put north at the top for all the following reasons EXCEPT
3. According to the passage, early Chinese maps placed north at the top because
4. It can be inferred from the passage that European explorers like Columbus and Magellan
5. Which one of the following about the northern orientation of modern maps is asserted in the passage?
6. The role of natural phenomena in influencing map-making conventions is seen most clearly in
Passage 2: I used a smartphone GPS to find my way through the cobblestoned maze of Geneva's Old Town, in search of a handmade machine that changed the world more than any other invention. Near a 13th-century cathedral in this Swiss city on the shores of a lovely lake, I found what I was looking for: a Gutenberg printing press. "This was the Internet of its day - at least as influential as the iPhone," said Gabriel de Montmollin, the director of the Museum of the Reformation, toying with the replica of Johann Gutenberg's great invention. Before the invention of the printing press, it used to take four monks up to a year to produce a single book. With the advance in movable type in 15th-century Europe, one press could crank out 3,000 pages a day. Before long, average people could travel to places that used to be unknown to them - with maps! Medical information passed more freely and quickly, diminishing the sway of quacks.
1. The printing press has been likened to the Internet for which one of the following reasons?
2. According to the passage, the invention of the printing press did all of the following EXCEPT
3. Steve Jobs predicted which one of the following with the introduction of the iPhone?
4. "I'm still waiting to see if the iPhone can do what the printing press did for religion and democracy." The author uses which one of the following to indicate his uncertainty?
5. The author attributes the French and American revolutions to the invention of the printing press because
6. The main conclusion of the passage is that the new technology has
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16 июн 2024
