2.Read the text again to find words that mean the same.
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lose one’s job |
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in fact |
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be taken to prison |
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money paid for going to school |
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what people do in a war |
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A yellow metal for making a ring |
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agree to take |
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V Reading
Ellas’ story
My name is Ellas .I am a poor black worker in South Africa .The time when I first met Nelson Mandela was a very difficult period of my life .I was twelve years old . It was in 1952 and he had opened a black law firm to advise black poor people on their problems .
I began school at six . The school where I studied only two years was three kilometers away. I had to leave, because my family could not continue to pay the school fees and the bus fare .I could not read or write. After trying hard ,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 I was worried about whether I would be out of work.
The day when Nelson Mandela told me what to do and helped me was one of the happiest days of my life .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 number of laws stopping our rights and progress, until today we have reached a stage where we have almost no rights at all.”
It was the truth .Black people has no vote 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 there 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 first broke the law in a way which was peaceful ;when this was not allowed… only then did we decide to answer violence with violence.”
As a matter of fact, I do not like violence… but in 1963 I helped him blow up some government buildings .It was very dangerous because if I was caught I could be put in prison for years .But I was happy to help because I knew it was to realize our dream of making black and white people equal.
1 Read the text and answer the following questions.
1) When and where was the writer born?
2) What difficulty did he meet when he worked in a gold mine in Johannesburg?
3 )why did Mandela organize the ANC Youth League?
4 )What position were the black in and what did they do
IV 把下列句子翻译成英语。
1 昨天我和妈妈关于如何养鱼争了起来（argument）
2 他感到一阵恶心，把吃下去的东西全吐了出来（bring up）
3 我喜欢体育运动的原因是他非常有趣，并且有利于健康（the reason why）
4 人必须要相信自己，这是成功的秘诀（believe in）
5 他对我们国家的贡献将被载入史册（contribution）
6 我偶尔看看电视，因为大部分时间都花在了写作业上了（spend）
7我的新衣服同你昨天买的那件在颜色上相似（be similar to）
8 初升的太阳看起来通常比已升起来的太阳大（rising）
Have you read the book _______is broken ?
A cover whose B whose cover C the cover of whose D the cover of that
The time is not far away _____ modern communications will become widespread in China’s vast countryside.
A as B when C until D before
I have many books ,but _____ deals with the problem.
A none of which B none of them C call of which D all of them
