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Unit 5
Elias' story
My name is Elias. I am a poor black worker in South Africa. The time 1________ I first met Nelson Mandela was a very difficult period of my life. I was twelve years old. It was in 1952 and Mandela was the black lawyer to 2_______I went to for advice. He offered guidance to poor black people on their legal problems. He was generous with his time, for 3_________ I was grateful.
I needed his help because I had very little education. I began school at six. The school 4_______ I studied for 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 5________ write well. After trying hard, I got a job in a gold mine. However, this was a time 6__________one had got to have a passbook to live in Johannesburg. 7_________(Sad)I did not have it because I was not born there, and I worried about 8____________ I would become out of work.
The day when Nelson Mandela helped me was one of my happiest. He told me how 9________( get) the correct papers so I could stay in Johannesburg. I became more hopeful about my future. I never forgot how kind Mandela was. 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 10_________(stop) our rights and progress, until today we have reached a stage 11________ we have almost no rights at all."
It was the truth. Black people could not vote or choose their leaders. They could not get the jobs they wanted. The parts of town in 12________they had to live were decided by white people. The places outside the towns where they were sent to live were the poorest parts of South Africa. No one could grow food there. In fact as Nelson Mandela said:
"...we were put into a position in 13________ we had either to accept we were less important, 14________fight the government. We chose to attack the laws. We first broke the law in a way 15_________ was peaceful; when this was not allowed...only then 16_________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 could17_________( put) in prison. But I was happy to help because I knew it would help us achieve our dream of 18_________make) black and white people equal.
The rest of Elias' story
You cannot imagine how the name of Robben Island made us afraid. It was a prison from 19________no one can escape. There I spent the hardest time of my life. But when I got there Nelson Mandela was also there and he helped me. Mr Mandela began a school for those of us 20________ had little learning. He taught us during the lunch breaks and the evenings when we should have been asleep. We read books under our blankets and use anything we could find to make candles 21___________(do) that. Later, Mr Mandela allowed the prison guards 22___________(join) us. He said they should not be stopped from 23__________(study) for their degrees. They were not 24__________(clever) than me, but they did pass their exams. So I knew I could get a degree too. That made me 25_________(feel) good about myself.
When I finished the four years in prison, I went to find a job. Since I was better educated, I got a job working in an office. However, the police found out and told my boss that I had been in prison for blowing up government buildings. So I lost my job. I did not work again for twenty years 26____ Mr Mandela and the ANC came to power in 1994. All that time my wife and children had to beg for food and help from relatives or friends. 27__________(Lucky) Mr Mandela remembered me and gave me a job taking tourists around my old prison on Robben Island. I felt bad the first time I talked to a group. All the terror and fear of that time came back to me. I remembered the beatings and the 28__________(cruel)of the guards and my friends who had died. I felt I would not be able to do it, but my family encouraged me. They said that the job and the pay from the new South African government were my reward after working all my life for equal rights for the blacks. So now at 51 I am proud to show visitors over the prison, for I helped to make our people free in their own land.