Vocabulary
3 Complete the sentences about historical events
using these words.
evidence feat ill-fated
outlaw sacrifices
old
who stole from
1 Robin Hood was a(n) _
the rich and gave to the poor.
2 Napoleon's invasion of Russia was a(n)
expedition which ended in defeat.
3 The archaeological
suggests there
was a town here.
4 Alexander the Great's conquest of Persia was
an amazing _ for such a young man.
5 Mother Theresa of Calcutta made great
personal
to help the poor and sick.
6 It's always the same __ _story. Once
people gain power, they forget about the
people who helped to put them there.

Match the definition to the word for a better understanding of the paragraph. 1 money does not buy happiness or security. 2john ringling, one of the five brothers of the ringling brothers circus, started out in 1884 with a trained horse and a performing bear. 3for over forty years, he worked hard at the family enterprise, bought up smaller circuses, and imported new acts. 4in the 1920s, he was rated as one of the world's wealthiest men and owned every sizable circus in the country. 5over 5,000 people were on his payroll, and over 240 railroad cars were in his retinue each time the circus moved. 6at the time of his death, however, he was a nervous, unhappy man; he was also bankrupt and beset by lawsuits. 7his carefully built circus empire passed into alien hands. 8all those years of work had turned to dust. 1. business organization alien 2. group beset 3. without funds to pay debts retinue 4. troubled or harassed enterprise 5. strange; belonging to another person, place, country, or thing bankrupt