NelsonMandela-amodernhero-reading每课一练(新人教版高中英语必修1unit5).doc

金太阳新课标资源网  HYPERLINK  第  PAGE 2 页 共  NUMPAGES 2 页 金太阳新课标资源网 HYPERLINK  Unit5 Neslson Mandela a modern hero-reading测试 Elias’ Story My name is Elias. I am a poor black worker in South Africa. ________________________ w as _______________________of my life. I was twelve years old. It was in 1952 and he had __________ a black law firm _______________________________. I began school at six. The school _________________________ was three kilometers away. I had to leave, because my family__________________________________. I could not read or write. ________________________, I got a job in a gold mine. This was a time when one had got to have a passbook to live in Johannesburg. Sadly I did not have this passbook because I was not born there and _________________________________ _____. The day when Nelson Mandela told me what to do and helped me was ________________ _________________. He told me how to get the correct papers so I could stay in Johannesburg. I never forgot how kind he was and when he organized the ANC Youth League, I joined it as soon as I could. He said: The last thirty years have seen the greatest manlier of laws stopping our rights and progress, until today we have reached a stage where we have almost no rights at all ____________________. Black people had no ___________ and could not choose who ruled them. The parts of town where they lived were places decided by white people. They could not get jobs they wanted. The places where they were sent to live were the poorest areas in South Africa. No one could grow food there. In fact as Nelson Mandela said: ... we were put in a position in which we had either to accept we were less important, or fight the government We chose to attack the law: We fast broke a way which was peaceful; when this was not allowed.., only then did we decide to answer violence with violence. _____________________, I do not like ______________, but in 1963 I helped him blow