以下是部分人教版高中英语必修1 unit5课文的原文：

Wang Le: 嘿，各位，你们学习英语最大的问题是什么？

Liu Wen: 嗨！ 我从小学就开始学习英语。 我以前英语成绩很好，但现在我在听力方面有些问题。 当我听到以英语为母语的人在视频中讲话时，我只能听明白几个单词。 我永远无法抓住中心思想。 有什么建议吗？

逄文: 嗨，大家好，请问你们在学习英语时遇到的最大问题是什么？

Wang Le & Liu Wen & Jia Xin: 我觉得这完全取决于你在跟谁说话。 如果我是跟一个亲密的朋友说话，我可以用简短的请求，如“打开窗户”，这是因为我们关系密切，彼此平等，所以我只需要说几个字就能让对方明白我的意思。

Elias’s story

1.My name is Elias. 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 Mandela was the black lawyer to whom I went for advice . He offered guidance to poor black people on their legal problems. He was generous with his time ,for which I was grateful.

I needed his help because I had very little education. I began school at six . The school where I studied for only two years was three kilomertes 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 well . After trying hard ,I got a job in a gold mine ,However,this was a time when one had got to have a passbook to live in Johannesburg. Sadly I did not have it because I was not born there , and I worried about whether I would become out of work.

2.The day when Nelson Mandela helped me was one of my happiest . He told me how to 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 numeber of laws stopping our rights and progress ,untill today we have reached a stage where we have almost no rights at all .”