【正文】 hi s pany i nto two parts. They say that he is unfair to other people who want to sel l simi lar software. Because hefits his new software free i n every new puter, the governm ent says he is stopping other pani es from sel ing thei r program s. This i s not fai r. Everyone shoul d be abl e to do what they can to m ake thei r pany bi gger. Bil l Gates has not only done what he can to stop other peti tors. H e i s very ri ch, but he i s generous. H e has given mi li ons of dol ars to hel p the educati on and the health of m any chi l dren around the worl d. You coul d not m et a beter m an than Bi l Gates. A peti tors of Bil l Gates Bil Gates has been very sucesful and be e very ri ch. He i s very generous but how has he got hi s m oney? H e has down thi s by m aki ng sure that no one el se wi l be abl e to pete wi th hi s software. H i s software i s not the best but i t is used m ost wi dely i n the worl d. When he sees what is needed, he makes a program and produces i t qui cker than anybody el se. That way he gets a large part of the software m arket. Then he works on improving the software l ater. H e tries hard to stop others m aking beter software. In 195 the governm ent tri ed to m ake thi ngs fairer for people li ke m e. The government wanted to make Microsoft i nto two pani es so that nei ther of them was so strong nor so ri ch. Thi s m eant that they coul d not stop som ebody el se m aki ng new software. I al ways wonder how he coul d get so ri ch so quickly. H as he done i t by fair m eans? Or has he done i t by being a puter bul y? 必修二 Uni t 1 In search of the am ber room Frederi ck Wil li am I, the ki ng of Prussi a, coul d never have im agined that his greatest gi ft to the Rusian people woul d have such an am azi ng hi story. Thi s gi ft was the Am ber Room, which was gi ven this nam e because several tons of am ber were used to make it. The am ber whi ch was sel ected had a beauti ful yel owbrown col our li ke honey. The design of the room was i n the fancy styl e popul ar i n those days. It was al so a treasure decorated with gol d and jewel s, which took the country’s best artists about ten years to m ake. In fact, the room was not m ade to be a gift. It was desi gned for the palace of Fredrick I. H owever, the next Ki ng of Prussi a, Fredri ck Wi li am I, to whom the am ber rom belonged, deci ded not to keep i t. In 1716 he gave i t to Peter the Great. In return, the Czar sent him a trop of his best sol diers. So the Amber Room became part of the Czar’s winter palace in St Petersburg. About four metres long, the room served as a smal recepti on hal for im portant vi stors. Later, Catherine Ⅱ had the Am ber Rom moved to a palace outsi de St Petersburg where she spent her summers. She tol d her arti sts to ad m ore detai ls to i t. In 170 the room was pleted the way she wanted. Alm ost six hundred candles li t the room, and i ts m irrors and pi ctures shone li ke gold. Sadl y, al though the Amber Rom was si dered one of the wonders of the worl d, i t i s now m issi ng. In Septem ber 1941, the Nazi arm y was near St Petersburg. This was atim e when the two countri es were at war. Before the Nazi s coul d get to the summ er pal ace, the Russi ans were able to rem ove som e furni tures and sm al art objects from the Am ber Room. H owever, som e of the N azis secretl y stole the rom i tsel f. In l ess than two days 10000 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, whi ch was at a time a Germ an ci ty on the Bal ti c Sea. After that, what happened to the Am ber Rom rem ai ns a m ystery. Recentl y, the Rusians and Germ ans have buil t a new Am ber Room at the summer pal ace. By studying old photos of the former Amber room , they have m ade the new one l ooke li ke the old one. In 20xx it was ready for the peopl e of St Petersburg when they cel ebrated the 30th bi thday of their city. A fact of an opi ni on What is a fact? Is it som ething that peopl e beli eve? N o. A fact is anything that can be proved. For example, it can be proved that China has m ore people than any other country i n the worl d. This i s a fact. Then what i s an opi nion? An opi ni on i s what som eone beli eves is true but has not been proved. So an opi noi on i s not good evidence i n a trail. For exam ple, i t is an opi ni on if you say “Cats are better pets than dogs”. It may be true, but it i s di fi cult to prove. Som e people may not agre wi th this opi nion but they al so cannot prove that they are ri ght. In a trail , a judge m ust deci de whi ch eyewi tnesses to beli eve and which not to bel i eve. The judge does not consi der what each eyewitness l oks l i ke or where that person li ves or works. H e/She onl y cares about whether the eyewitness has gi ven true i nformati on, which must be facts rather than opi ni ons. Thi s ki nd of i nform ation is cal ed evidence. Bi g Feng to the rescue H is friends and family cal l him “Big Feng” because he is bery tal and pl ayed basketbal as a young man. But he is al so big in a diferent way — he fights hard to protect China’s past. His real name is Feng Jicai and he has written many novel s about life in China. Several years ago, however, he put down hi s pen for a whil e and began to protect the cl tural reli cs i n Ti anjin, where he l ives. Once someon asked him why he no l onger wrote. He repl ied that at the m oment he felt protecti ng cul tural reli cs was m ore im portant. Feng l oves hi s hom etown. H e bel ieves that ol d thi ngs m ust be given a pl ave next to new thi ns, or peopl e wil l soon fet ther great past. H e does not m ake speeches to get others to help him in hi s projects. Instead he goes out and does what he can himesel f. If others fol ow him, so much the better. One of hi s biggest projects was to protect the ol dest street i n Tianji n. Along that street som