Ancient Egyptian Ships - Test 3

C2 Proficiency · Listening Sentence Completion · Cambridge English: Proficiency 1, Cambridge University Press

You will hear part of a lecture about ancient Egyptian ships and an attempt to reconstruct one. For questions 1–9, complete the sentences with a word or short phrase.

on the Red Sea.

Archaeologists believe that the site called Mersa Gawasis was once a

, the Pharaoh Hatshepsut imported incense by ship.

To gain the support from the

for the ship they were building.

Ancient Egyptian shipbuilders differed from modern ones in that they did not make a

The speaker compares building an ancient Egyptian ship to doing a

to help attach planks together, unlike the seagoing ships.

The Egyptian river ship used

was used in the reconstruction of the ship.

Wood from trees grown in

by the archaeologists.

The modern shipbuilders were provided with a

to make the ship watertight.

The modern shipbuilders used

to get the ship to the sea.

The modern team used a

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