【正文】 as down thi s by m aki ng sure that no one else wi l be abl e to pete with hi s software. Hi s software i s not the best but i t i s used m ost wi del y i n the worl d. When he sees what i s 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 im provi ng the software l ater. H e tri es hard to stop others m aki ng beter software. In 1995 the governm ent tri ed to m ake thi ngs fai rer for peopl e li ke m e. The governm ent wanted to m ake Mi crosoft 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 rich so qui ckl y. Has he done it by fai r m eans? O r has he done it by being a puter bul l y? 必修二 Uni t 1 In search of the am ber room Frederick Wil li am I, the ki ng of Prussia, coul d never have im agi ned that hi s greatest gi ft to the Russian peopl e woul d have such an am azi ng hi story. Thi s gift was the Am ber Room, whi ch was gi ven thi s nam e because several tons of am ber were used to m ake i t. The am ber whi ch was sel ected had a beauti ful yel l owbrown col our l i ke honey. The desi gn of the room was i n the fancy styl e popul ar i n those days. It was also a treasure decorated wi th gol d and jewels, which took the country’s best artists about ten years to make. In fact, the room was not m ade to be a gi ft. It was desi gned for the pal ace of Fredri ck I. H owever, the next Ki ng of Prussi a, Fredri ck Wi l iam I, to whom the am ber room bel onged, deci ded not to keep i t. In 1716 he gave i t to Peter the Great. In return, the Czar sent hi m a troop of hi s best sol di ers. So the Am ber Rom became part of the Czar’s winter palace in St Petersburg. About four metres l ong, the rom served as a smal reception hal for i m portant vi stors. Later, Catheri ne Ⅱ had the Am ber Rom moved to a pal ace outsi de St Petersburg where she spent her sum m ers. She tol d her arti sts to add m ore detai ls to it. In 1770 the rom was pl eted the way she wanted. Alm ost si x hundred candl es l i t the room , and i ts m irrors and pi ctures 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 mi ssing. In Septem ber 1941, the Nazi 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 sum mer pal ace, the Russians were abl e to rem ove som e furni tures and sm al art objects from the Am ber Room . H owever, som e of the N azi s secretl y stol e the rom itsel f. In l ess 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 city on the Balti c Sea. After that, what happened to the Am ber Room rem ai ns a m ystery. Recentl y, the Rusi ans and Germ ans 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 oke l i ke the ol d one. In 2020 i t was ready for the people 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 ethi ng that peopl e bel i eve? N o. A fact i s anythi ng that can be proved. For exam pl 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 opini on? An opi ni on i s what som eone beli eves is 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 beter pets than dogs”. It may be true, but it is difficul t to prove. Some peopl e 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 eyewi tnesses to bel i eve and which not to bel i eve. The judge does not consi der what each eyewitness l oks l ike or where that person l ives or works. He/She onl y cares about whether the eyewi tness has given true i nformati on, whi ch must be facts rather than opi ni ons. Thi s ki nd of i nform ati on i s cal l ed evi dence. Bi g Feng to the rescue H is friends and family cal him “Big Feng” because he is bery tal and pl ayed basketbal as a young man. But he i s 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 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. H e repli ed that at the m om ent he fel t protecting cul tural rel i cs was m ore im portant. Feng l oves hi s hom etown. H e beli eves that ol d thi ngs m ust be gi ven a pl ave next to new thi ns, or peopl e wil l soon fet ther great past. H e does not m ake speches to get others to hel p him i n his projects. Instead he goes out and does what he can him esel f. If others fol ow hi m, so m uch the better. O ne of hi s bi ggest projects was to protect the ol dest street in Tianji n. Al ong that street som e shops had done busi ness for seven hundred years. Althought the city governm ent rebui l t thi s street, they di d save i ts ol dest coul d save i nto wagons. They hel ped one another cl im b the hi gh hil ls around the city. Never in al l SanFrsncio’s histroy were her peopl e so kind as on that terribl e night. Unit 5 Eli as’ story My nam e i s El ias. I am a poor worker i n SouthAfri ca. The ti m e when I fi rst m et N el son Mandel a was a very di ffi cult peri od of m y li fe. I was twelve years ol d. It was i n 1952 and Mandel a was the bl ack l awyer to whom I went for advice. He offered gui dance to poor bl ack peopl e on thei r l egal problem s. H e was g