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Egypt Felled by Famine{{/B}} Even ancient Egypt’s mighty pyramid builders were powerless in the face of the famine that helped bring down their civilisation around 2180 BC. Now evidence gleaned from mud deposited by the River Nile suggests that a shift in climate thousands of kilometres to the south was ultimately to blame -- 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 southwards out of Ethiopia would have diminished these floods. Dwindling rains in the Ethiopian highlands would have meant fewer plants to stablise the soil. When rain did fall it would have washed A. Change of climate. B. Famine. C. Flood. D. Population growth. 更多"下面有3篇短文,每篇短文后有5道题,每题后面有4个选项。请仔细阅读短文"的相关试题: [单项选择] 下面有3篇短文,每篇短文后有5道题,每题后面有4个选项。请仔细阅读短文并根据短文回答其后面的问题。 {{B}}第一篇{{/B}}
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