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READING PRACTICE

Read the paragraphs and answer the questions. Each question asks you to use a context clue to
help you find the meaning of the highlighted word.

[ PASSAGE A ]

After Germanic people moved out of unproductive, cold Scandinavia to the flourishing land
of the Rhine late in the third century A.D., the Roman Empire deployed their armed forces
to block the barbarian frontiers from moving southward. However, the en-masse migration
of European tribes occurred from the early fourth century, referred to as the Migration
Period, and threatened as well as changed the Roman world immensely. This migration
was regarded inexorable due to a population explosion, land scarcity, clashes of adjacent
nations and tribes.

The biggest reason for the Migration Period was the arrival of the Huns who stepped out of
Central Asia and migrated westward towards the borders of the Roman Empire. The Huns,
led by a mighty General Attila, pushed all other barbarians of Eastern Europe to migrate
other regions of Europe. This consequently plagued peoples dwelling Eastern and Central
Europe as well as Iberian Peninsula and North Africa, leading to the fall of the Western
Roman Empire.

01 The word immensely in paragraph 1 is closest in meaning to
A immediately
B greatly
C adversely
D scarcely

02 The word plagued in paragraph 2 is closest in meaning to
A infected
B affected
C argued
D tormented

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