Reading Comprehension Answers: The Phenomenon of Abu-Simbel Posted by Fisal on Feb 25, 2014 in Arabic Language, Culture, Grammar, Pronunciation, Vocabulary
Here are the answers to the reading comprehension exercise about the phenomenon of Abu-Simbel. To view the exercise again, click here.
تـــَـــتـــَـــحــَــــدَّثْ الــقــِـــطـــْـــعــَــــةُ عن ظاهرة معبد أبو سمبل و حب الملك رمسيس الثانى لزوجته نفرتارى
1) The passage is about the phenomenon of the Temple of Abu-Simbel and the love of King Ramses II to his wife; Nefertari.
تـــَــحـــدُثْ هـــَـــذهِ الـــظــَّـــاهــِـــرة فى صباح الثانى و العشرين (22) من شهر فبراير
2) That phenomenon happens in the morning of February 22nd.
يــَــأتــِــى السياح مــِــنْ كــُــل أنــْــحــَـــاءِ الــعــَــالــَــم لــِــمــُــشــَــاهــَــدَة هــَــذهِ الــظــاهــِــرة
3) Tourists come from all over the world to see that phenomenon.
تــُــؤكــِّــد هــذه الـظــاهــرة على تــقــَـــدُّم الـمـصــريــيــن الــقــُــدَمــَــاءِ فى علم الفلك
4) The phenomenon confirms that the ancient Egyptian surpassed in astronomy.
مــُـــفـــْــــرَد كـــَـــلـــِــــمــَـــة : “ظــَــواهــِــر” هــُــو “ظـــَــاهــِـــرة”
مـــُـــفــْــــرَد كـــَــــلـــِـــمــَـــة : “أنــْـــظــَــار” هــُــو “نـــَـــظـــَــــرْ”
مــُـــفـــْـــرَد كـــَـــلـــِـــمـــَـــة : “جــُــدران” هــُــو “جــَـــدَار”
5) The singular of the word: “ظــَــواهــِــر” is “ظـــَــاهــِـــرة”
The singular of the word: “أنــظــار” is “نـــَـــظـــَــــرْ”
The singular of the word: “جــُــدران” is “جــَـــدَار”
جـــَـــمــْـــع كـــَــــلـــِـــمــَــة : “تــِـــمــْـــثــَـــال” هــُـــو “تــَــمــَــاثــِــيـــِـــل”
جــَــمــْـــع كـــَـــلـــِـــمـــَــــة : “عـــِـــلـــْــــم” هــُــو “عــُـــلــــُـــــوم”
جـــَــمــْـــع كــَـــلـــِـــمــَــــة : “مــَـــعــْـــبـــَـــد” هــُــو “مــَـــعــَـــابـــِـــد”
6) The plural of the word: “تــِــمــثــَـــال” is “تــَــمــَــاثــِــيـــِـــل”
The plural of the word: “عــِــلــْــم” is “عــُـــلــــُـــــوم”
The plural of the word: “مــَــعــْــبــَـــد” is “مــَـــعــَـــابـــِـــد”
مــُـــرادِف كــَــلــِــمــَــة : “يــَـــتــَـــوّافـــَـــد” هــُــو “يــَـــأتــِـــي”
مــُـــرادِف كــَــلــِــمــَــة : “الــفــَـــيــَّــاض” هــُــو “الــمــُــتـــَــدفــِّــقْ” أو “الــشــَّـــديـــد”
مــُـــرادِف كــَــلــِــمــَــة : “رَبـــَّـــة” هــُــو “إلــــه”
7) The synonym of the word: “يــتــوافـــد” is “يــَـــأتــِـــي” = to come
The synonym of the word: “الــفــيــاض” is “الــمــُــتـــَــدفــِّــقْ” = flooding
The synonym of the word: “رَبــَّـــة” is “إلــــه” = goddess
مــُــضــَــاد كــَــلــِــمــَـــة : “صــَـــبــَـــاح” هــُـــو “مــَــســـَـــاء”
مــُــضــَــاد كــَــلــِــمــَـــة : “جــَــنـــُـــوب” هــُـــو “شــَـــمـــَـــال”
مــُــضــَــاد كــَــلــِــمــَـــة : “بــِــنـــَـــاء” هــُـــو “هـــَــــدْمْ”
8 ) The opposite of the word: “صــَــبــَــاح” (= morning) is “مــَــســـَـــاء” (=evening)
The opposite of the word, “جــَــنــُــوب” (= south) is “شــَـــمـــَـــال” (= north)
The opposite of the word: “بــِــنــَـــاء” (= construction) is “هـــَــــدْمْ” (= demolition)
فـِــعــلــَـــيــْــنِ مـُــضــَــارِعــَــيــْــنِ هــُــمــَــا : 1 – “تــَــجـــْـــذبْ” 2 – “يــَـــتـــَـــوَافـــَــــدْ”
فــِــعــْـــلــَـــيــْــنِ مــَــاضــِــيــَــيــْــن هــُــمــَـــا : 1- “شــَـــهــِـــدَتْ” 2- “خــَـــلــَّـــدَ”
9) The two present verbs are: 1- “تــَــجـــْـــذبْ“ = attract 2– “يــَـــتـــَـــوَافـــَــــدْ“ = come
The two past verbs are: 1- “شــَـــهــِـــدَتْ“ = witnessed 2- “خــَـــلــَّـــدَ“ = immortalized
تــَــرْجــَـــمــَــة الـجــُــمـْــلــَــة إلـى اللـغــة الإنـجــلـيــزيـة
10) Translation into English:
“ تــُــســَـــجــِّــل الــرُّســُـــوم و الــنــُــقــُـــوش عـلـى جــُــدرَانِ مـَــعــَــابــِــد أبــُــو سـِــمــْــبــل تــَــفـــَــاصــِـــيــلَ أجــْـــمــَـــل و أقــْـــدَم قــِــصــَّـــةِ حــُــبٍ رَبــَــطــَـــتْ بـيـنَ قــَـــلــبــَــىّ الــمــَـــلـِــك رَمــســيــس و زوجــتـــهُ نــِــفــِــرتـــَــارى ”
“The drawings and carvings on the walls of Abu-Simbel Temples document the details of the most beautiful and oldest love story that linked the two hearts of King Ramses II and his wife; Nefertari.”
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Well, I was born near the city of Rasheed or Rosetta, Egypt. Yes, the city where the Rosetta Stone was discovered. It is a small city on the north of Egypt where the Nile meets the Mediterranean. I am a Teacher of EFL.