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雪中飞舞888UID: 3609847

A divide between aesthetic and technical considerations has played a crucial role in mapmaking
and cartographic scholarship. Since nineteenth century cartographers, for instance, understood
themselves as technicians who did not care about visual effects, while others saw themselves as
landscape painters. That dichotomy structured the discipline of the history of cartography. Until the 1980s, in what Blakemore and Harley called “the Old is Beautiful Paradigm,” scholars largely focused on maps made before 1800, marveling at their beauty and sometimes regretting the decline of the pre-technical age. Early mapmaking was considered art while modern cartography was located within the realm of engineering utility. Alpers, however, has argued that this boundary would have puzzled mapmakers in the seventeenth century, because they considered themselves to be visual engineers.

2. It can be inferred from the passage that, beginning in the 1980s, historians of cartography
A. placed greater emphasis on the beauty of maps made after 1800
B. expanded their range of study to include more material created after 1800
C. grew more sensitive to the way mapmakers prior to 1800 conceived of their work
D. came to see the visual details of maps as aesthetic objects rather than practical cartographic aids
E. reduced the attention they paid to the technical aspects of mapmaking

答案选择B，但感觉这里的after 应该是before

nbshanshanUID: 3322812

Until the 1980s, in what Blakemore and Harley called “the Old is Beautiful Paradigm,” scholars largely focused on maps made before 1800, marveling at their beauty and sometimes regretting the decline of the pre-technical age.
语序是
scholars largely focused on maps made before 1800, marveling at their beauty and sometimes regretting the decline of the pre-technical age until the 1980s
也就是1980s之前都这么做，之后就不这么做了