【正文】 Petersburg. About four m etres l ong, the room served as a smal recepti on hal for im portant vi stors. Later, Catheri ne Ⅱ had the Am ber Room moved to a pal ace outsi de St Petersburg where she spent her sum mers. She tol d her arti sts to add m ore detail s to i t. In 1770 the room was pleted the way she wanted. Al m ost si x hundred candl es li t the room, and i ts mi rrors and pi ctures shone l ike 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 issi ng. In Septem ber 1941, the N azi arm y was near St Petersburg. Thi s was atim e when the two countri es were at war. Before the N azi s coul d get to the summ er pal ace, the Russians were abl e to rem ove som e furni tures and sm al l art objects from the Am ber Room. H owever, som e of the Nazi s secretly stol e the room i tsel f. In l ess than two days 100000 pieces were put i nsi de twentyseven wooden boxes. There i s no doubt that the boxes were then put on a trai n for Koni gsberg, which was at a tim e a Germ an city on the Bal ti c Sea. After that, what happened to the Am ber Room rem ai ns a mystery. Recentl y, the Russi ans and Germans have buil t a new Am ber Room at the summ er pal ace. By studyi ng ol d photos of the form er Am ber room , they have m ade the new one l ooke l i ke the ol d one. In 2020 i t was ready for the peopl e of St Petersburg when they cel ebrated the 300th bi thday of thei r ci ty. A fact of an opi ni on What i s a fact? Is i t som ething that peopl e bel i eve? N o. A fact i s anythi ng that can be proved. For exam ple, 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 opini on? An opi ni on i s what som eone beli eves i s true but has not been proved. So an opinoion is not good evidence in a trail. For exampl e, it is an opinion if you say “Cats are better pets than dogs”. It may be true, but it is difficult to prove. Some peopl e may not agree with this opinion but they al so cannot prove that they are ri ght. In a trai l, a judge must deci de whi ch eyewi tnesses 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 l i ves or works. H e/She onl y cares about whether the eyewi tness has gi ven true i nform ati on, whi ch m ust be facts rather than opi ni ons. Thi s ki nd of i nformati on i s cal ed evi dence. Bi g Feng to the rescue H is friends and famil y cal him “Big Feng” because he is bery tal l and pl ayed basketbal l as a young man. But he is al so bi g 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 novels about l ife in China. Several years ago, however, he put down hi s pen for a whil e and began to protect the cltural rel ics i n Ti anji n, where he li ves. O nce som eon asked him why he no l onger wrote. H e repl i ed that at the mom ent he fel t protecti ng cul tural reli cs was m ore im portant. Feng l oves his hom etown. H e bel i eves that ol d thi ngs m ust be gi ven a pl ave next to new thi ns, or peopl e wi l soon fet ther great past. He does not m ake speches to get others to hel p hi m i n hi s projects. Instead he goes out and does what he can hi meself. If others fol ow him , so much the better. One of hi s bi ggest projects was to protect the ol dest street i n Ti anji n. Al ong that stret som e shops had done business for seven hundred years. Al thought the city governm ent rebui lt thi s street, they did save its ol dest for degree but I was not al owed to do that. Later, Mr Mandel a al owed the pri son guards to joi n us. H e sai d they shoul d not be stopped from studyi ng for thei r degres. They were not cl everer than m e, but they di d pass thei r exam s. So I knew I coul d get a degree too. That m ade m e feel good about m ysel f. When I fi ni shed the four years i n prison, I went to fi nd a job. Si nce I was better educated, I got a job worki ng i n an office. However, the pol i ce found out and tol d m y boss that I had been in pri son for blowi ng up governm ent bui l di ngs. So I l ost m y job. I di d not work again for twenty years unti l Mr Mandel a and the AN C cam e to power in 1994. Al l that ti me m y wi fe and chil dren had to beg for food and hel p from relatives or fri ends. Lucki l y Mr Mandel a rem em bered m e and gave m e a job taki ng touri sts around m y ol d pri son on Robben Isl and. I fel t bad the fi rst time I tal ked to a group. Al the teror and fear of that ti m e cam e back to m e. I rem em bered the beati ngs and the cruel ty of the guards and m y fri ends who had died. I fel t I woul d not be abl e to do it, but m y fam il y encouraged m e. They sai d that the job and the pay from the new South Afri ca governm ent were m y reward after worki ng al m y li fe for equal ri ghts for the Bl acks. So now at 51 I am proud to show vi sitors over the prison, for I hel ped to make our peopl e free i n thei r own l and. A fol l ower of Bil l Gates I have been a fri end of Bil l Gates for a l ong ti me. I knew him when he was a student at H arvard Uni versi ty. We were surpri sed when he l eft Uni versi ty to set up hi s own pany” Mi crosoft” and m ake his own software. But he was the clever one! H e i s very good at wri ti ng puter l anguages and alm ost al l puters now use Mi crosoft software. The program “Word” i s used from Bri tai n to Chi na! O f course he has made a lot of m oney and that m akes peopl e very jeal ous. They want to stop hi s sucess. Even the government i s agai nst him and has tri ed to break hi s pany i nto two parts. They say that he i s unfai r to other peopl e who want to sel sim il ar software. Because hefi ts hi s new software free i n every new puter, the governm ent says he i s stoppi ng other pani es from sel i ng thei r program s. Thi s i s not fai