【英语卷（解析）·2014届宁夏银川一中高三下学期第三次模拟考试（201405）】C1 D
Nelson Mandela and wife Winnie, walking hand in
hand, raise clenched fists upon his release from Victor
prison, Cape Town, Sunday, February 11, 1990.
Nelson Mandela died at the age of 95, on 6 December
2013, according to South African President Jacob Zuma.
His death marks the final chapter in a life that changed South Africa forever. Those 95 years were remarkable.
At the age of seven, he entered a local school, where he was given the name “Nelson”, after Admiral Horatio Nelson of the Royal Navy, by a teacher who had difficulty in pronouncing his African name. That name, Rolihlahla, means “troublemaker”.
In 1927, when Mandela was nine, he decided to become a lawyer, influenced by the cases that came on his father. In 1942 Mandela entered politic s by joining the African National Congress (ANC), South Africa's major liberation movement and today the country's ruling party. It was during this time that he and a small group of mainly young members of the ANC got down to a task transforming the party into a mass movement.
In 1952, he was charged and brought to trial for his role in the campaign of fighting against Unjust Laws and given a prison sentence. The 1 950s turned out to be a time of hardship and suffering for Mandela--he was banned, arrested and imprisoned.
While in prison, Mandela studied by correspondence with the University of London, earning a Bachelor of Law degree. He never faced his teachers, but his name was familiar to all the teachers by means of his writing
