单词串烧人教新课标高中英语必修一unit5.doc

我给你讲述我的朋友-当代英雄纳尔逊.曼德拉的故事. 曼德拉是一位南非前总统,他为黑人和白人间的平等而斗争,并为此而坐牢达30年.他积极参加社会活动,具有高尚的品德.他愿意帮助处于不幸之中的人,我就是其中之一. (I will tell you a story about Nelson Mandela-a modern hero .Mendela is an pre-president of south Africa.He fought for the equai between black and white people,and was in prison for 30 years.He took an active part in the society activities .and had noble qualities.He was willing to help the people who were in trouble. I was one of them )我12岁时,第一次看见他.当时他正在开设一家黑人律师事务所.那时我因家里太穷,不能交付学费,我不得不在一家金矿干活,整天担忧会不会失业.曼德拉建议我加入非国大青年联盟.他说:”我们正处于一个无法接受的境地,我们要用暴力反抗暴力”.1963年我帮助他炸毁了一些政府大楼而被捕入狱,并与曼德拉被关在同一个监狱中.曼德拉帮助我学习.我得到了良好的教育.1993年曼德拉上台执政,他给我一个工作,叫我带旅游团参观我与他同住过的那座旧监狱,使我回忆所有的恐怖和令人畏惧的情景.但我喜欢这份工作.在我心目中,曼德拉是一位优秀的领导人,我为他感到骄傲.(When I was 12,I saw him the first time. At that time he opened a black law firm. My family were too poor to continue to pay my school fees.I had to work in a gold mine.At that time I was worried about whether I would be out of work. Mandela advised me to join the ANC Youth League.He said:”We were put in a position which we could not accept.We decided to answer violence with violence”.In 1963 I helped him blow up some government buidings and was put in prison which Mandela and I were in.Mandela helped me study.And I was better educated.In 1993 He gave me a job taking tourists round my old prison.All the terror and fear of that time came back to me.But I