【導讀】andthecrueltyoftheguardsandmyfriendswhohaddied.IfeltIwouldnotbeabletodoit,butmyfamilyencouragedme.TheysaidthatthejobandthepayfromthenewSouthAfricagovernmentweremyrewardafterworkingalmylifeforequalrightsfortheBlacks.Sonowat51Iamproudtoshowvisitorsovertheprison,forIhelpedtomakeourpeoplefreeintheirownland.AfolowerofBilGatesIhavebeenafriendofBillGatesforalongtime.IknewhimwhenhewasastudentatHarvardUniv

　　

【正文】 on a trai n for Koni gsberg, whi ch 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 m ystery. Recentl y, the Russians and Germ ans have bui l t a new Am ber Room at the sum m 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 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 bi thday of their ci ty. A fact of an opi ni on What i s a fact? Is i t som ething that peopl e beli 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 people than any other country i n the worl d. Thi s is a fact. Then what is an opi ni on? An opi ni on i s what som eone beli eves i s true but has not been proved. So an opi noi on i s not good evi dence 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 di ffi cul t to prove. Som e people m ay not agree wi th thi s opi ni on 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 beli eve. The judge does not consi der what each eyewitness l ooks l i ke or where that person l i ves or works. H e/She onl y cares about whether the eyewitness 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 Hi s fri ends and fam il 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 big in a different 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 cltural 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 repl ied that at the m om ent he fel t protecti ng cul tural reli cs was m ore im portant. Feng l oves hi s hom etown. H e bel i eves that ol d thi ngs m ust be gi ven a plave next to new thins, or peopl e wil 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 him esel f. If others fol low him, so m uch the better. O ne of hi s bi gest projects was to protect the ol dest street i n Ti anjin. Al ong that street some shops had done busi ness for seven hundred years. Al thought the ci ty governm ent rebui l t thi s street, they di d save i ts ol dest buil ding. Another project was m ore successful : he persuaded the city governm ent to buy some l and i n the centre of the ci ty so it coul d not be sol d for businesses. Thi s area i s very im protant for the hi story of Ti anji n. It was here that the ci ty was first buil t during the Song Dynasty. Later m any treasures were found here. To Feng, di ggi ng down i n to the earth i s li ke reading page after page of a book. Each dynasty found i n the earth is l i ke an i nteresti ng story. N ot l ong ago he and other wri ters and arti sts took photos of the ol d parts of Ti anji n. The photos were put i nto a book whi ch was very popul ar. The m oney from the book helps hi s prjects. O nce, and ol d m an asked Feng to si gn a book for him , sayi ng he woul d gi ve i t to his grandson who was not yet born. Feng was gl ad to do it he knows that he past i s not only for us to enjoy but al so for the chil dren of the future. Unit 2 An i ntervi ew Pausani as, who was a Greek wri ter about 2020 year ago, has e on a magi cal journey on March 18th , 2020 to fi nd out about the presentday O l ym pi c Gam es. H e i s now i ntervi ewi ng Li Yan, a vol unteer for the 2020 O lym pi cs Games. P: My nam e is Pausanias. I li ved i n what you cal “ Anci ent Greece” and I used to wri te about the Ol ym pi c Gam es a l ong tim e ago. I’ ve e to your tim e to fi nd out about the presentday Ol ym pi c Gam es because I know that i n 2020 they were hel d i n m y hom el and. May I ask you som e questi ons about themodern Ol ympics? L: Good heavens! Have real lye from so l ong ago? But of course you can ask any questi ons you li ke. What woul d you l ike to know? P: How often do you hold your Games? L: Every four years. There are two m ain sets of Gam es—the Winter and the Sum mer O lympi cs, and both are hel d every four years on a regular basi s. The Winter Ol ympics are usual y held two years before the Summ er Games. Only athl etes who have reached the agreed standard for thei r event wil l be admi ted as peti tors. They and the cruel ty of the guards and m y fri ends who had di ed. I fel t I woul d not be abl e to do i t, but m y fami l 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 si tors over the pri son, for I helped to m ake our peopl e free i n their own l and. A fol ower of Bi l Gates I have been a fri end of Bil l Gates for a l ong ti m e. 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 make hi s own software. But he was the cl ever one! H e is very god at wri ti ng puter l anguages and alm ost al puters now use Mi crosoft software. The program “Word” i s used from Bri tai n to Chi na! O f course he has m ade a l ot of m oney and that m akes peopl e very jealous. They want to stop hi s success. Even the governm ent i s agai nst him and has tri ed to break hi s pany i nto two parts. They say that he i s unfair to other peopl e who want to sel l si mi l 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