TOEFL阅读错题整理2

 Official 51 Passage 1

Memphis: United Egypt’s First Capital

The city of Memphis, located on the Nile near the modern city of Cairo, was founded around 3100 B.C. as the first capital of a recently united Egypt. The choice of Memphis by Egypt`s first kings reflects the site`s strategic importance. First, and most obvious, the apex of the Nile River delta was a politically opportune location for the state`s administrative center, standing between the united lands of Upper and Lower Egypt and offering ready access to both parts of the country. The older predynastic (pre-3100 B.C.) centers of power, This and Hierakonpolis, were too remote from the vast expanse of the delta, which had been incorporated into the unified state. Only a city within easy reach of both the Nile valley to the south and the more spread out, difficult terrain to the north could provide the necessary political control that the rulers of early dynastic Egypt (roughly 3000–2600 B.C.) required.

It can be inferred from paragraph 1 that one consequence of the unification of Egypt was

A. the reduction of the strategic importance of older centers of power

B. the opportunity for the recently united Egypt to become economically self-sufficient

C. the increase in political tensions (not mentioned) between the rulers of Upper and Lower Egypt

D. the reduction of Egypt’s dependence upon the Nile for trade and communications

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If you pinpoint the place, other choices are obviously wrong