高一英语必修一第五单元课文
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Unit
5
ELIAS’
STORY
My
name
is
Elias.
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
wa
s
in
1952
and
Mandela
was
the
black
lawyer
to
whom
I
went
for
advice.
He
offered
gui
dance
to
poor
black
people
on
their
legal
problems.
He
was
generous
with
his
time,
for
which
I
was
grateful.
I
needed
his
help
because
I
had
very
little
education.
I
began
school
at
six.
The
sc
hool
where
I
studied
for
only
two
years
was
three
kilometers
away.
I
had
to
leave
beca
use
my
family
could
not
continue
to
pay
the
school
fees
and
the
bus
fare.
I
could
not
r
ead
or
write
well.
After
trying
hard,
I
got
a
job
in
a
gold
mine.
However,
this
was
a
tim
e
when
one
had
got
to
have
a
passbook
to
live
in
Johannesburg.
Sadly
I
did
not
have
it
because
I
was
not
born
there,
and
I
worried
about
whether
I
would
become
out
of
w
ork.
The
day
when
Nelson
Mandela
helped
me
was
one
of
my
happiest.
He
told
my
ho
w
to
get
the
correct
papers
so
I
could
stay
in
Johannesburg.
I
became
more
hopeful
ab
out
my
future.
I
never
forgot
how
kind
Mandela
was.
When
he
organized
the
ANC
Yout
h
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
an
d
progress,
until
today
we
have
reached
a
stage
where
we
have
almost
no
rights
at
al
l.”
It
was
the
truth.
Black
people
could
not
vote
or
choose
their
leaders.
They
could
no
t
get
the
jobs
they
wanted.
The
parts
of
town
in
which
they
had
to
live
were
decided
b
y
white
people.
The
places
outside
the
towns
where
they
were
sent
to
live
were
the
po