语法填空（每题1分，共10分）

  仔细阅读下列短文，按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求，在空格处填入一个适当的词或使用括号中单词的正确形式填空。

Nelson Mandela, born ____1.____ July 18, 1918, is the first black president of South Africa. He studied law____2.___ he entered university. In 1944 he founded ____3.____ ANC Youth League. Then in 1952 he set up a law office ____4.__ ( help ) poor black people. Because of his ____5.____( fight ) against the government and anti-black laws, he ___6.____ ( sentence ) to five years hard labor. Fighters from ANC began to blow up buildings in 1963 ____7.____ he was put in prison again for life imprisonment on Robben Island. Twenty-seven years later, he was freed at last by the white government. In 1993 he was made the ____8.___ ( one ) black president of South Africa. A lot of people in the world think Nelson Mandela is ____9.___ ( real ) a great person. ____10.___do you think of him?

Jumping out of _______ airplane at ten thousand feet is quite _______ exciting experi­ence．

The white man who was put in prison for trying to  __________the headquarters(总部)of the ANC tried to escape but failed.

       A. set up        B. break up    C. fire up       D. blow up

He is an old doctor with a lot of ________. But he has never travelled by air before.Taking a plane was quite ________ experience for him this time.

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