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Egypt Felled by Famine Even ancient Egypts mighty pyramid builders were powerless in the face of the famine that helped brin
Egypt Felled by Famine Even ancient Egypts mighty pyramid builders were powerless in the face of the famine that helped brin
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2011-01-05
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Egypt Felled by Famine
Even ancient Egypts mighty pyramid builders were powerless in the face of the famine that helped bring down their civilian around 2180 BC. Now evidence gleaned(搜集) from mud deposited by the River Nile suggests that a shift in climate thousands of kilometers to the south was ultimately to blem -- and the same or worse could happen today.
The ancient Egyptians depended on the Niles annual floods to irrigate their crops. But any change in climate that pushed the African monsoons(季风)southwards out of Ethiopia would have diminished these floods.
Dwindling(逐渐变少;使变少)rains in the Ethiopian highlands would have meant fewer plants to establish 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;沉积物)from the White Nile.
The Blue Nile mud has a different isotope signature(签名;特征) from that of the White Nile. So by analyzing isotope(同位素;核素)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 the Blue Nile mud in the river would be relatively high. He found that one of these periods, from 4,500 to 4,200 years ago, immediately predates the fall of the Egypts Old Kingdom.
The weakened waters would have been catastrophic for the Egyptians. Changes that affect food supply dont have to be very large to have a ripple effect in societies, says Bill Ryan of the Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory(天文台)in New York.
"Similar events today could be even more devastating, " says team member Daniel Stanley, a geoarchaeologist(地质考古学家) 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 because the populations have increased dramatically. "
The word "devastating" in the last paragraph could be best replaced by
选项
A、frustrating.
B、damaging.
C、defeating.
D、worrying.
答案
B
解析
此处devastating为形容词,意思是“破坏性的”,其动词是devastate,意思是“使荒芜;破坏”。A项意思是“令人失望的”;B项意思是破坏的,毁坏的;C项为defeat的现在分词形式,动词defeat意思是“击败”D项意思是“令人担忧的,令人发愁的”。各项中只有B项与devastating意义相近,故选B。
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