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III. Match a word in A with its derivative in B. Translate them.
A B
to break
remendment
tribe break-up
to achieve urgency
to profit inspiration
to remend arrangement
to defend government
urgent to testify
to revive tribal
to inspire profit
to arrange
establishment
to establish
achievement
to govern defensive
to test
revival
IV. Read and translate the text about Alfred the Great.
ALFRED THE GREAT (871—899)
Born at Wantage 849
Buried at Winchester
The Witan, so it turned out, chose well, for Alfred, seasoned
by many battles, proved also to be a great ruler. Though he was not, so
it is said, a man of any great physical strength, yet he was a considerable
warrior. He defeated the Danish onslaught, led by Gurthrum in 878,
at the famous battle of Ethandun. In 884 Alfred received the submission
not only of the English but also of many Welsh princes, and, after
897, the Danes, too, had learnt not to give him further trouble.
Maraudings were successfully combated by enlarging the navy, and the
defences of the country were improved by fortifying townships and by
building forts.
But great though Alfred’s military achievements were, his real
greatness lay not in war, which only destroys, but in the arts of peace.
Much of Alfred’s work, like his culinary misfortune, is probably fabulous,
but he did three great things which must be noted, for they alone are
enough to raise him high above others of his age: he started, after the
fashion of Charles the Great, a court school to educate the nobility; he
encouraged the greatest scholars of the day to come to England; and he
III. Match a word in A with its derivative in B. Translate them.

                     A                                 B
                 to break                      remendment
                   tribe                          break-up
               to achieve                          urgency
                 to profit                       inspiration
               to remend                       arrangement
                to defend                       government
                  urgent                          to testify
                 to revive                           tribal
                to inspire                           profit
               to arrange                      establishment
              to establish                     achievement
                to govern                         defensive
                  to test                           revival




IV. Read and translate the text about Alfred the Great.
                  ALFRED THE GREAT (871—899)
                       Born at Wantage 849
                       Buried at Winchester
         The Witan, so it turned out, chose well, for Alfred, seasoned
by many battles, proved also to be a great ruler. Though he was not, so
it is said, a man of any great physical strength, yet he was a considerable
warrior. He defeated the Danish onslaught, led by Gurthrum in 878,
at the famous battle of Ethandun. In 884 Alfred received the submission
not only of the English but also of many Welsh princes, and, after
897, the Danes, too, had learnt not to give him further trouble.
Maraudings were successfully combated by enlarging the navy, and the
defences of the country were improved by fortifying townships and by
building forts.
         But great though Alfred’s military achievements were, his real
greatness lay not in war, which only destroys, but in the arts of peace.
Much of Alfred’s work, like his culinary misfortune, is probably fabulous,
but he did three great things which must be noted, for they alone are
enough to raise him high above others of his age: he started, after the
fashion of Charles the Great, a court school to educate the nobility; he
encouraged the greatest scholars of the day to come to England; and he


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