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高考作文专题备课第二篇阅读理解王兴祖 PAGE  PAGE 11 Part1：人物传记篇 Nelson Mandela and wife Winnie, walking hand in hand, raise clenched fists upon his release from Victor prison, Cape Town, Sunday, February 11, 1990. Nelson Mandela died at the age of 95, on 6 December 2013, according to South African President Jacob Zuma. His death marks the final chapter in a life that changed South Africa forever. Those 95 years were remarkable. At the age of seven, he entered a local school, where he was given the name “Nelson”, after Admiral Horatio Nelson of the Royal Navy, by a teacher who had difficulty in pronouncing his African name. That name, Rolihlahla, means “troublemaker”. In 1927, when Mandela was nine, he decided to become a lawyer, influenced by the cases that came on his father. In 1942 Mandela entered politics by joining the African National Congress (ANC), South Africas major liberation movement and today the countrys ruling party. It was during this time that he and a small group of mainly young members of the ANC got down to a task transforming the party into a mass movement. In 1952, he was charged and brought to trial for his role in the campaign of fighting against Unjust Laws and given a prison sentence. The 1950s turned out to be a time of hardship and suffering for Mandela--he was banned, arrested and imprisoned. While in prison, Mandela studied by correspondence with the University of London, earning a Bachelor of Law degree. He never faced his teachers, but his name was familiar to all the teachers by means of his writing letters. After spending 27 years in prison, Mandela became South Africas first democratically elected president in 1994. He united a fearful country, bringing together blacks and whites in harmony, when South Africa was living through violent and troubled times. After serving a five-year term as president of the country, he retired from public life, though not from the public eye. He is the greatest son of the nation and a great father of his peo