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Not even close! Most of the giant mazes you visit in October are planned as carefully as a highway, sometimes with the help of satellites orbiting hundreds of miles above your head. Walk inside one and the corn towers over you like green walls, the stalks rustling in the autumn wind, the dead ends daring you to turn back. A good maze can swallow up a family for an hour or more before they finally find the exit.  \nThose looming walls of corn didn't sprout on their own, and neither did the twisting path between them. A maze usually begins on a computer, where a designer draws the pattern like a giant coloring page laid over a map of the field. One of the first big American corn mazes appeared in Pennsylvania in 1993, designed with the help of a man named Adrian Fisher, who has created hundreds of them around the world. Back then, cutting the design meant measuring the field by hand with stakes and string, a slow and sweaty job. Today, a worker can walk the field carrying a GPS device that beeps when a stalk needs to come out, matching the ground to the drawing on the screen.  \nThat satellite guidance is why modern mazes can pull off tricks that would have amazed those early stake-and-string crews. Designers now cut mazes shaped like dinosaurs, spaceships, famous faces, and messages you can only read from an airplane. The pattern is usually cut while the corn is still young and short, so the paths have room to grow tall and thick by fall. Some farms build mazes so enormous they cover more than 30 acres, which is bigger than a couple dozen football fields put together.  \nGetting lost on purpose is only one reason those farm gates swing open every October. A corn maze is usually the star of a bigger harvest festival, the kind of place where a wagon full of hay bumps you across the field and a pumpkin patch stretches out in rows of orange. Harvest celebrations are older than any maze, though—people around the world have thrown parties for generations to mark the moment the year's crops finally come in. You might sip warm cider, watch a scarecrow slump on its post, or race a friend through the corn while the smell of kettle corn drifts on the breeze.  \nHere's what makes all of this matter beyond one fun afternoon: a corn maze quietly connects a screenloving generation back to the dirt their food grows in. In my view, that's the clever part—a farm turns a plain October field into an attraction that keeps the lights on after the harvest is sold. Autumn is a favorite season for spending on treats and outings, and surveys by the National Retail Federation regularly rank fall celebrations among the most popular of the year. So the next time you're stuck at a dead end between two walls of corn, remember that a satellite may have helped put you there.  \nHarvest Festivals and Corn Mazes  \nName:  \n\n| Solve each problem.\u003Cbr>Use the article to answer the question.\u003Cbr>1) What common assumption about corn mazes does the author correct at the very beginning?\u003Cbr>A. That corn mazes take only a few minutes to walk through\u003Cbr>B. That corn mazes are always cut in the shape of a pumpkin\u003Cbr>C. That corn mazes are grown mainly to feed farm animals\u003Cbr>D. That a farmer randomly chops paths into a field with no plan |  |  |  |  | Answers\u003Cbr>1.  \u003Cbr>2.  \u003Cbr>3.   |  |  |  |  |  |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 2) What point of view does the author express about why corn mazes matter?\u003Cbr>A. They are the only way small farms can survive winter\u003Cbr>B. They are the best-designed attractions in the world\u003Cbr>C. They reconnect a screen-loving generation to where food grows\u003Cbr>D. They are more educational than any classroom lesson |  |  |  |  | 4.  \u003Cbr>5.  \u003Cbr>6.   |  |  |  |  |  |\n| 3) How did workers cut a maze design before GPS was available?\u003Cbr>A. 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