II. This text repeatedly contrasts the past with the present or the future. We
can use coordinated clauses to contrast two views, for emphasis or effect.
Given below are sentences carrying one part of the contrast. Find in the text
the second part of the contrast, and complete each item. Identify the words
which signal the contrast. This has been done for you in the first item.
1. For decades the Union Buildings had been the seat of white supremacy,
and now ...
2. Only moments before, the highest generals of the South African defence
force and police ... saluted me and pledged their loyalty. ... not so many
years before they would not have saluted
3. Although that day neither group knew the lyrics of the anthem they
would soon
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4. My country is rich in the minerals and gems that lie beneath its soil,
5. The Air Show was not only a display of pinpoint precision and military
force, but
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6. It was this desire for the freedom of my people ... that transformed
into a bold one, that drove
to become a
criminal, that turned
into a man without a home.
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2. but arrested me.
3. know the words by heart.
4. but I have always known that its greatest wealth is its people, finer and truer than the purest diamonds.
5. but a demonstration of the military’s loyalty to democracy, to a new government that had been freely and fairly elected.
6. frightened young man, a law-abiding attorney, a family-loving husband
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1. it was the site of a rainbow gathering of different colours and nations.
2. but arrested me.
3. know the words by heart.
4. but I have always known that its greatest wealth is its people, finer and truer than the purest diamonds.
5. but a demonstration of the military's loyalty to democracy, to a new government that had been freely and fairly elected.
6. frightened young man. a law-abiding attorney. a family-loving husband
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