高中英语人教版05

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[00:00.00]和谐英语学习网 Unit 5 Nelsom Mandela-a modern hero
[00:13.51]Reading
[00:17.35]ELIAS'STORY
[00:21.60]My name is Elias.I am a poor black worker in South Africa.
[00:29.47]The time when I first met Nelson Mandela was a very difficult period of my life.
[00:37.64]I was twelve years old.
[00:41.40]It was in 1952 and he had opened a black law firm
[00:47.75]to advise poor black people on their problems.
[00:52.61]I began school at six.
[00:57.47]The school where I studied only two years was three kilometres away.
[01:03.95]I had to leave,
[01:07.60]because my family could not continue to pay the school fees and the bus fare.
[01:13.95]I could not read or write.After trying hard,I got a job in a gold mine.
[01:22.29]This was a time when one had got to have a passbook to live in Johannesburg.
[01:29.94]Sadly I did not have this passbook because I was not born there
[01:36.42]and I was worried about whether I would be of work.
[01:41.56]The day when Nelson Mandela told me what to do
[01:47.02]and helped me was one of the happiest days of my life.
[01:52.20]He told me how to get the correct papers so I could stay in Johannesburg.
[01:58.96]I never forgot how kind he was and whe he organized the ANC Youth League,
[02:06.62]I joined it as soon as I could.He said:
[02:11.94]"The last thirty years have seen the greatest number of laws
[02:17.61]stopping our rights and progress,
[02:22.05]until today we have reached a stage where we have almost no rights at all."
[02:28.82]It was the truth.Black people had no vote and could not choose who ruled them.
[02:36.87]The parts of town where they lived were places decided by white people.
[02:43.03]They could not get jobs they wanted.
[02:47.08]The places where they were sent to live were the poorest areas in South Africa.
[02:53.74]No one could grow food there.In fact as Nelson Mandela said:
[03:00.90]"...we were put in a position
[03:04.97]in which we had either to accept we were less important,or fight the Government.
[03:11.74]We first broke the law in a way which was peaceful;
[03:16.00]when this was not allowed...
[03:21.27]only then did we decide to answer violence with violence."
[03:28.93]As a matter of fact,I do not like violence...
[03:34.36]but in 1963 I helped him blow up some government buildings.
[03:40.81]It was very dangerous because if I was caught I could be put in prison for years.
[03:48.26]But I was happy to help because I knew it was to realize our dream
[03:54.61]of making black and white people equal.
[03:58.97]Using Language
[04:06.23]Listening
[04:09.18]1.Listen to the tape and find out the reason why
[04:16.73]Elias joined the ANC Youth League.
[04:21.69]Then answer the following questions.
[06:23.74]Reading
[06:31.18]THE REST OF ELIAS'STORY
[06:35.55]You cannot imagine how the sound of the name of Robben Island made us afraid.
[06:43.20]It was a prison from which no one escaped.
[06:48.37]There I spent the hardest time of my life.
[06:53.83]But when I got there Nelson Mandela was also there and in one way it helped me.
[07:01.28]For Mr Mandela began a school for those of us who had studied very little.
[07:08.25]He taught us during the lunch breads and the evenings
[07:13.40]when we should have been asleep.
[07:16.87]We read books under our blankets
[07:21.52]and used anything we could find to make candles to see the words.
[07:28.16]I became a good student and wanted to study for my degree
[07:34.19]but I was not allowed to do that.
[07:38.03]I knew I was clever enough
[07:41.98]because Mr Mandela allowed the prison guards to join us.
[07:47.64]He said they should not be stopped from studying for their degrees.
[07:53.50]As they were not cleverer than me,but did pass their exams,
[07:59.37]I knew I could get a degree too.
[08:03.21]That made me feel good about myself.
[08:07.58]When I had finished the four years in prison,I went to find a job.
[08:13.51]Since I was better educated,I got a job working in an office.
[08:19.98]But the police found out and told the important men in my business
[08:26.15]that I had been to prison for blowing up government buildings.