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22. According to the text the word strangler is not accurate because ...

A) the fig tree does not quite press the host tree

B) the host tree attacks the fig tree

C) the fig tree does not hurt environment

D) the fig tree supplies the host tree with nutrition

23. The word STIFLE in the text means ...

A) smother B) reside C) inhabit D) force

24. As it is given in the text, the fig tree does not only get nutrition from the host tree, but also ...

A) it exists at the expense of other plants. B) it is food for animals.

C) it produces nutrition to the air. D) it gives minerals to other plants.
Herodotus was a Greek historian born in Halicarnassus four years before the battle of Thermopylae. He is believed to have been exiled in his later life because of his opposition to the tyrant Lygdamis. He spent much time on Samos, thereafter travelling in the Persian Empire, Scythia and Egypt, observing with fascination the local customs and beliefs. He lived some time in Athens and travelled as an Athenian colonist to Thurii, in Italy, where he is supposed to have spent the rest of his life writing The Persian Wars, earning the title of Father of History from Caesar. This 9-book work is an inquiry into the origins of, and a description of, the Persian invasions of Greece. The first 6 books tell of the customs, geography and history of the combatants and their neighbours; the last three treat the war itself.