【正文】 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 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 could not vote or choose their leaders. They could not get the jobs they wanted. The parts of town in which 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 which we had either to accept we were less important, or fight the government. We chose to attack the laws. 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. But I was very happy to help because I knew it would help us achieve our dream of making black and white people equal.The rest of Elias’ storyYou cannot imagine how the name of Robben Island made us afraid. It was a prison from which no one escaped. 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 who had little learning. We read books under our blankets and used anything we could find to make candles to see the words. I became a good student. I wanted to study for degree but I was not allowed to do that. Later, Mr Mandela allowed the prison guards to join us. He said they should not be stopped from studying for their degrees. They were not cleverer than me, but they did pass their exams. So I knew I could get a degree too. That made me 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 until 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. Luckily 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 cruelty 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 Africa 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.A follower of Bill GatesI have been a friend of Bill Gates for a long time. I knew him when he was a student at Harvard University. We were surprised when he left University to set up his own pany” Microsoft” and make his own software. But he was the clever one! He is very good at writing puter languages and almost all puters now use Microsoft software. The program “Word” is used from Britain to China! Of course he has made a lot of money and that makes people very jealous. They want to stop his success. Even the government is against him and has tried to break his pany into two parts. They say that he is unfair to other people who want to sell similar software. Because hefits his new software free in every new puter, the government says he is stopping other panies from selling their programs. This is not fair. Everyone should be able to do what they can to make their pany bigger. Bill Gates has not only done what he can to stop other petitors. He is very rich, but he is generous. He has given millions of dollars to help the education and the health of many children around the world. You could not meet a better man than Bill Gates.A petitors of Bill GatesBill Gates has been very successful and bee very rich. He is very generous but how has he got his money? He has down this by making sure that no one else will be able to pete with his software. His software is not the best but it is used most widely in the world. When he sees what is needed, he makes a program and produces it quicker than環(huán)保型綠色生態(tài)養(yǎng)豬技術(shù)研究與開發(fā)可行性研究報(bào)告編制：修水縣科技開發(fā)服務(wù)中心二○○三年五月have just finished cutting three cartloads of golden brownmacaroni stalks. The whole village has been working day and night gathering and threshing this year39。s crop before the September rains. On the right, you can see Mrs Brabante herself. She has been helping her husband for thirty years now. Mrs Brabante is talking to the manager of the local factory where the crop is processed. This last scene shows you what will happen at the end of the harvest : the famous Calabrian macaronieating petition ! Signor Fratelli, the present champion, has won it every year since 1961. And that ends our special bulletin for today, Thursday, April 1st. We are now returning you to the studio.39。Lesson77 A successful operation 一例成功的手術(shù)The mummy of an Egyptian woman who died in 800 . has just had an operation. The mummy is that of Shepenmut who was once a singer in the Temple of Thebes. As there were strange marks on the Xray plates taken of the mummy, doctors have been trying to find out whether the woman died of a rare disease. The only way to do this was to operate. The operation, which lasted for over four hours, proved to be very difficult because of the hard resin which covered the skin. The doctors removed a section of the mummy and sent it to a laboratory. They also found something which the Xray of the god Duam