Unit 5 Nelson Mandela --- a modern hero

Reading

Step1 Scan the text in two minutes and find out what each paragraph is mainly talking about.

Paragraph 1

Elias's life _______ prison.

Paragraph 2

Elias's life _________ prison.

Step2 Read the 1st paragraph of the passage for a second time and choose the best answer to complete each sentence.

1. Elias was unhappy in the prison because _________.

A. he was kept with the criminals

B. the prison guards studied with him

C. he has to study

D. he could not study for a degree

2. Nelson Mandela showed how good a leader he was because ________.

A. he fought the guards in prison

B. he refused to let the guards study in his school

C. he let the guards study in his school but not take the exams

D. he let the guards study even though the prisoners could not take the exams

3. Life for Elias was not too bad in prison because _______

A. he had to study

B. he could study with the guards

C. he wanted to study

D. he could study and get a degree

4. As leader of South Africa, Nelson Mandela helped prisoners of Robben Island by ________

A. giving them an education

B. giving them money

C. putting the guards in prison

D. giving them a job

Step3 Read the 2nd paragraph of the passage for a second time and answer the questions.

* Why did Elias lose the job?

* When did Elias begin to work again?

* How did Elias's family make a living when he had no job?

* What's Elias's new job?

After Elias ____________(release) from prison, he found a job ______ (work) in an office as he was ______ (good) educated. However, they fired him when they found out he had been in prison. He had to _________ food and help from r______ or friends. ______, Mr. Mandela ____________in 1994 and he remembered Elias and offered him a job _____(take) tourists around his old prison. He felt ____ at first, but his family e_________ him. They said the job and the pay were a ______ after all his life for equal rights for the _______. So now he is _____ to show visitors _____ the prison, _____ he helped to make his people free in their own land.