【正文】 ures shone li ke gol d. Sadl y, al though the Am ber Room was si dered one of the wonders of the worl d, i t i s now m i si ng. In Septem ber 1941, the N azi army was near St Petersburg. Thi s was atim e when the two countri es were at war. Before the N azis coul d get to the summ er palace, the Russi ans were abl e to remove som e furni tures and sm al l art objects from the Am ber Room. H owever, some of the N azi s secretl y stol e the room i tsel f. In l es than two days 100000 pi eces were put i nsi de twentyseven wooden boxes. There is no doubt that the boxes were then put on a trai n for Koni gsberg, which was at a tim e a Germ an ci ty on the Balti c Sea. After that, what hapened to the Am ber Rom rem ains a m ystery. Recentl y, the Russi ans and Germans have buil t a new Am ber Room at the summ er pal ace. By studying ol d photos of the form er Am ber room, they have m ade the new one l ooke li ke the ol d one. In 2020 i t was ready for the peopl e of St Petersburg when they cel ebrated the 300th bithday of thei r city. A fact of an opi nion What i s a fact? Is i t som ethi ng that peopl e beli eve? No. A fact i s anything that can be proved. For exampl e, i t can be proved that Chi na has m ore peopl e than any other country i n the worl d. Thi s i s a fact. Then what i s an opi ni on? An opi nion i s what som eone bel i eves i s true but has not been proved. So an opi noi on i s not good evi dence in a trail. For example, it is an opinion if you say “Cats are better pets than dogs”. It may be true, but it is dificul t to prove. Some people may not agree with this opinion but they al so cannot prove that they are ri ght. In a trail , a judge m ust deci de whi ch eyewitnesses to bel i eve and whi ch not to beli eve. The judge does not consi der what each eyewi tness l ooks l i ke or where that person li ves or works. H e/She onl y cares about whether the eyewi tness has gi ven true inform ati on, whi ch m ust be facts rather than opi ni ons. Thi s ki nd of i nform ati on is cal l ed evi dence. Bi g Feng to the rescue His friends and famil y cal him “Big Feng” because he is bery tal l and played basketbal l as a young man. But he is al so big i n a di fferent way — he fights hard to protect China’s past. H is real name is Feng Jicai and he has written many novel s about l ife i n Chi na. Several years ago, however, he put down hi s pen for a whi l e and began to protect the cl tural reli cs i n Ti anji n, where he li ves. O nce som eon asked him why he no l onger wrote. He repli ed that at the m om ent he fel t protecti ng cul tural reli cs was m ore i m portant. Feng l oves hi s hom etown. He bel i eves that ol d things m ust be given a pl ave next to new thi ns, or peopl e wi l soon fet ther great past. H e does not m ake speeches to get others to hel p him i n hi s projects. Instead he goes out and does what he can hi m esel f. If others fol l ow him , so much the better. O ne of hi s biggest projects was to protect the ol dest street i n Ti anjin. Al ong that street some shops had done business for seven hundred years. Al thought the ci ty government rebuil t this street, they did save i ts oldestcoul d save into wagons. They helped one another climb the high hil s around the city. Never in al SanFrsncio’s histroy were her peopl e so ki nd as on that terribl e ni ght. Uni t 5 El ias’ story My name i s El ias. I am a poor worker in SouthAfri ca. The time when I fi rst met N elson Mandel a was a very di fficult peri od of my li fe. I was twelve years ol d. It was i n 1952 and Mandela was the black l awyer to whom I went for advi ce. H e offered gui dance to poor black people on their legal probl ems. He was generous wi th his ti me, for whi ch I was grateful. I needed hi s help because I had very l ittle education. I began school at six. The school where I studied for onl y two years was three ki lometers away. I had to leave because my fami ly coul d not continue to pay the school fees and the bus fare. I could not read or write wel . After tryi ng hard, I got a job i n a gol d mi ne. However, this was a ti me when one had to got to have a pasbook to live in Johannesburg. Sadl y I di d not have i t because I was not born there, and I worried about whether I would bee out of work. The day when N el son Mandela helped m e was one of my happi est. He tol d m e how to get the corect papers so I coul d stay in Johannesburg. I becam e more hopeful about my future. I never fot how ki nd Mandel a was. When he ani zed the AN C Youth League, I joined i t as soon as I coul d. He sai d: “ The l ast thi rty years have seen the greatest number of l aws stoppi ng our ri ghts and progress, unti l today we have reached a stage where we have alm ost no rights at al .” It was the truth. Bl ack peopl e could not vote or choose thei r l eaders. They could not get the jobs they wanted. The parts of town in which they had to li ve were deci ded by whi te people. The pl aces outside the towns where they were sent to live were the poorest parts of South Afri ca. No one could grow food there,. In fact as N el son Mandel a said: “… We were put i nto a posi tion i n whi ch we had either to accept we were less i mportant, or fight the government. We chose to attack the laws. We first broke the l aw i n a way which was peaceful 。 when this was not al owed… only then did we decide to answer violence wi th vi ol ence. ” As a matter of fact, I do not l ike vi ol ence… but i n 1963 I helped hi m blow up some governm ent buil di ngs. It was very dangerous because if I was caught I coul d be put i n prison. But I was very hapy to help because I knew it would hel p us achi eve our dream of m aki ng bl ack and white peopl e equal. The rest of El ias’ story You cannot i magine how the name of Robben Island made us afraid. It was a pri son from whi ch no one escaped. There I spent the hardest time of my li fe. But when I got there Nel son Mandela