Directions: There are two passages in this section. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A), B), C) and D). You should decide on the best choice. Passage Two Mr shocked his colleagues when, at 33, he announced that he looked forward to becoming South Africa's first black president. Yet he did not expect rewards; even when he was a world-famous figure he was modest, and seldom took his power for granted. Repeatedly in jail he would refuse privileges if they were offered to him but not to other prisoners. He complained, for instance, about having to wear shorts, one of the ways in which the government embarrassed black prisoners, but rejected the long trousers he was then given -- until two years later when the government agreed to let his colleagues wear them too. He was proud, it is true, to be related by birth to one of the Thembu kings. Yet he hated to behave like some African "big men", always being embarrassed while in jail on Robben Island that he received more visits than other prisoners, one of whom saw only three visitors in 15 years. As a free man in the 1990s, he chose to live in sub comfort, and in the holidays returned to Qunu, where he had spent the happiest days of his childhood, to build a house based on the design of his quarters in the Victor Verster prison that had held him during his final years as a prisoner. He encouraged no mistaken view of him as a god-like figure. Magnificent museums and statues were alien (陌生的) to him. But flash suits, white silk scarves and a physical-fitness program at least partly designed to maintain a boxer's muscular body shape were not. He would make good use of his appearance. In his youth, his looks and smart suits had done him no harm among women admirers. He was then considered more at ease with women than with men. Later, when he wore a traditional Xhosa leopard-skin cloak, to appear in court, he knew he would deliver a message that "I was a black African walking into a white man's court." The leopard is traditionally considered a Thembu royal symbol, and the cloak is traditionally worn by a Xhosa chief. This proved to be a very powerful surprise. It suited the African National Congress, of which Mr was a leader, to make a messiah (救星) out of him, first to inspire the masses at home, then to keep spirits up during the long years of political hopelessness. It could have ended badly. The great figure whose defiance (蔑视) so captured the public imagination -- Prisoner 466/ on Robben Island -- could have turned out to be a broken man or a paper hero. Instead, he proved to be a remarkably effective politician. 29. arrived at court, dressed in a traditional leopard-skin cloak, because ______.