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Somewhere inside that field, carved into the living corn, is a puzzle stretching across an area larger than several football fields. This is a corn maze, and getting lost in one on purpose has become one of autumn's favorite games. Every fall, thousands of American farms open their gates so visitors can wander through these leafy labyrinths, ride wagons piled with hay, and hunt for the perfect pumpkin.  \nLong before anyone thought to cut mazes into corn, people were already  \nthrowing parties to celebrate the end of the growing season. Harvest festivals are among the oldest celebrations on Earth, held in cultures across the world to give thanks when the fields were finally emptied and the barns were full. In North America, autumn brings hayrides, apple picking, and pumpkin patches, while other harvest traditions carry their own deep meanings elsewhere. People have always found reasons to gather after the last crop is in, sharing food and marking the turn of the seasons together.  \nThe pumpkins piled at those festivals connect us to a plant with a surprisingly long history in this part of the world. Squash and pumpkins have been grown in the Americas for thousands of years, and today the round orange kind is a symbol of fall itself. Farms invite families to ride out to the patch, pick a pumpkin straight off the vine, and carry it home to carve or bake. According to a National Retail Federation survey, most Americans plan to buy a pumpkin around Halloween, which helps explain why you see them stacked outside stores every October.  \nPumpkin patches and hayrides are old-fashioned fun, but the corn maze is a surprisingly modern invention. The first big one appeared in Pennsylvania in 1993, when a maze shaped like a giant dinosaur was cut into a field and drew crowds from all over. That single attraction sparked a whole new industry, and soon farmers everywhere were turning ordinary fields into ticketed puzzles. Because the idea was so new, it changed how a working farm could earn money, letting families keep their land by welcoming visitors each fall.  \nCutting a shape that huge into a field sounds impossible, but technology is  \nthe secret behind it. Many mazes today are designed first on a computer, where an artist draws a pattern that might look like a face, a tractor, or a message. That design is then mapped onto the real field using GPS, the same satellite system that guides a car, so workers know exactly where each path should turn. Farmers usually cut the maze early in the season, while the corn is still short, and let the stalks grow tall around the finished paths. What began as a person walking with a marker has become a job for satellites orbiting far above the field.  \nFrom ancient thanksgiving feasts to satellite-guided puzzles, the harvest season keeps reinventing itself while holding onto the same idea. At its heart, every hayride and every twist of a corn maze is a way of celebrating the food the land gives us before winter arrives. The tools have changed dramatically, but the  \nreason people gather has not budged in thousands of years. Here is the fact worth carrying home with your pumpkin: the corn walls you wander between were plotted by machines circling the planet in space.  \nHarvest Festivals and Corn Mazes  \nName:  \n\n| Solve each problem.\u003Cbr>Use the article to answer the question.\u003Cbr>1) Which two central ideas does the passage develop together?\u003Cbr>A. Ancient harvest celebrations and the modern, technology-driven corn maze\u003Cbr>B. The science of growing corn and the recipes made from pumpkins\u003Cbr>C. 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