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共用题干 第二篇Ancient Egypt Brought Down by FamineEven ancient Egypt's mighty pyr...
共用题干 第二篇Ancient Egypt Brought Down by FamineEven ancient Egypt's mighty pyr...
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2020-12-24
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问题
共用题干
第二篇
Ancient Egypt Brought Down by Famine
Even ancient Egypt's mighty pyramid(金字塔)builders were powerless in the face of
the famine(饥荒)that helped bring down their civilization around 2180 BC.Now evidence
collected from mud deposited by the River Nile suggests that a shift in climate thousands of
kilometers to the south was ultimately to blame一and the same or worse could happen today.
The ancient Egyptians depended on the Nile's annual floods to irrigate their crops.But
any change in climate that pushed the African monsoons(季风)southwards out of Ethiopia
would have reduced these floods.
Declining rains in the Ethiopian highlands would have meant fewer plants to stabilize the
soil.When rain did fall it would have washed large amounts of soil into the Blue Nile and
into Egypt,along with sediment(沉积)from the White Nile.
Blue Nile mud has a different isotope(同位素)signature from that of the White Nile.
So by analyzing isotope differences in mud deposited in the Nile Delta,Michael Krom of
Leeds University worked out what proportion of sediment came from each branch of the
river.
Krom reasons that during periods of drought,the amount of Blue Nile mud in the river
would be relatively high.He found that one of these periods,from 4500 to 4200 years ago,
immediately came before the fall of the Egypt's Old Kingdom.
The weakened waters would have been disaster for the Egyptians."Changes that affect
food supply don't have to be very large to have a ripple(波浪)effect in societies."says
Bill Ryan of the Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory in New York.
Similar events today could be even more devastating,says team member Daniel
Stanley,a scientist from the Smithsonian Institution in Washington D.C,"Anything humans
do to shift the climate belts would have an even worse effect along the Nile system today
because the populations have increased dramatically."
选项
Why does the author mention"Egypt's mighty pyramid builders"?
A:Because they once worked miracles.
B:Because they were well-built.
C:Because they were actually very weak.
D:Because even they were unable to rescue their civilization.
答案
D
解析
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