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2021年6月大学英语六级阅读练习题尼罗河的馈赠—埃及 【导语】英语四六级考试将要在202*年6月进行，日常的备考，听说读写都要关注，其中阅读理解是考生复习的重点和难点，日常备考需要加强英文阅读练习，下面是小编四六级频道为大家整理的《202*年6月大学英语六级阅读练习题:尼罗河的馈赠—埃及》一文，希望给大家带来帮助。 　　202*年6月大学英语六级阅读精练50篇汇总 　　英语六级阅读理解精炼第19篇，练习尼罗河的馈赠—埃及，含有六级阅读练习题，参考译文，答案等内容。供正在准备英语六级考试的学习者参考学习。 　　19. egypt 　　ever since herodotus2, the ancient greek historian and traveler, first described egypt as“the gift of the nile3”, she has been capturing the imagination of all who visit her. 　　the awe -inspiring monuments, left by the pharaohs, greeks and romans as well as by the early christians and muslims, attract thousands of visitors every year — but the pyramids, temples, tombs, monasteries and mosques are just part of this country’s fascination. 　　modern egypt —where mud-brick villages stand beside pharaonic ruins surrounded by towering steel, stone and glass buildings — is at the cultural crossroads of east and west, ancient and modern. while tv antennae decorate rooftops everywhere, from the crowded apartment blocks of cairo to the mud homes of farming villages and the goatskin tents of the bedouins4, the fellahin throughout the nile’s fertile valley still tend their fields with the archaic tools of their ancestors. 　　in the gargantuan5city of cairo the sound of the muezzin6 summoning the faithful to prayer competes with the pop music of ghetto blasters7 and the screech of car horns. and everywhere there are people : swathed in long flowing robes or western-style clothes, hanging from buses, weaving through an obstacle course of animals and exhaust-spewing traffic or spilling from hivelike buildings. 　　spectacular edifices aside, the attraction of this country lies in its incredible natural beauty and in the overwhelming hospitality of the egyptian people . 　　through everything the nile river flows serene and majestic, the lifeblood of egypt as it has been since the beginning of history. 　　阅读自测 　　Ⅰ. give the synonyms to the following words: 　　1. archaic 2 . swathe 3. incredible 4 . screech 5. serene 6 . garg