【導(dǎo)讀】fordegreebutIwasnotalowedtodothat.Later,MrMandelaalowedtheprisonguardstojoinus.Hesaidtheyshouldnotbestoppedfromstudyingfortheirdegres.Theywerenotclevererthanme,buttheydidpasstheirexams.SoIknewIcouldgetadegreetoo.Thatmademefeelgoodaboutmyself.WhenIfinishedthefouryearsinprison,Iwenttofindajob.SinceIwasbettereducated,Igotajobworkinginanoffice.However,thepolicefoundoutandtoldmybossthatIhadbeeninprison

　　

【正文】 /She onl y cares about whether the eyewi tnes 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 nform ati on is 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 played basketbal l as a young man. But he is al so big i n a different way — he fi ghts hard to protect China’s past. His real name is Feng Jicai and he has written many novels about life in China. Several years ago, however, he put down his pen for a whil e and began to protect the cl tural relics in Ti anji n, where he l ives. Once someon asked hi m why he no longer wrote. H e repli ed that at the mom ent he felt protecti ng cultural rel ics was more i mportant. Feng loves his hometown. H e beli eves that old thi ngs must be gi ven a pl ave next to new thins, or people wil l son fet ther great past. H e does not make speeches to get others to help him i n his projects. Instead he goes out and does what he can hi mesel f. If others fol low 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 oldest for degre but I was not al lowed 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 stoped from studyi ng for thei r degrees. They were not cl everer than me, but they di d pass their exam s. So I knew I coul d get a degree too. That m ade me 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 beter educated, I got a job worki ng i n an offi ce. H owever, the poli ce found out and tol d m y bos that I had been i n prison for bl owing up government buil di ngs. So I l ost m y job. I di d not work agai n for twenty years unti l Mr Mandela and the AN C cam e to power in 1994. Al l that ti m e m y wi fe and chi ldren had to beg for food and hel p from rel ati ves or fri ends. Luckil 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 felt bad the first tim e I tal ked to a group. Al the terror and fear of that tim e cam e back to m e. I rem embered the beati ngs and the cruel ty of the guards and my fri ends who had di ed. I fel t I woul d not be abl e to do i t, but my fami l y encouraged m e. They sai d that the job and the pay from the new South Africa 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 hel ped to m ake our peopl e fre i n thei r own l and. A fol lower of Bil Gates I have been a fri end of Bi l Gates for a l ong tim e. I knew hi m when he was a student at Harvard Uni versity. We were surpri sed when he l eft Uni versi ty to set up hi s own pany” Mi crosoft” and m ake hi s own software. But he was the cl ever one! H e i s very good at wri ti ng puter languages and alm ost al l puters now use Mi crosoft software. The program “Word” is used from Britai n to Chi na! Of course he has m ade a l ot of m oney and that makes people very jeal ous. They want to stop hi s succes. Even the governm ent is agai nst hi m and has tri ed to break hi s pany i nto two parts. They say that he i s unfai r to other people who want to sel sim il ar software. Because hefi ts hi s new software fre i n every new puter, the governm ent says he i s stopping other pani es from sel li ng their 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 onl y done what he can to stop other peti tors. H e i s very ri ch, but he i s generous. H e has gi ven mil li ons of dol ars to hel p the educati on and the heal th of m any chil dren around the worl d. You coul d not m eet a beter m an than Bil Gates. A peti tors of Bil l Gates Bil l Gates has been very succesful and be e very ri ch. H e is very generous but how has he got his m oney? H e has down thi s by m aking 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 i s used most wi dely 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 aking beter software. In 1995 the governm ent tri ed to make thi ngs fai rer for peopl e l ike m e. The governm ent wanted to m ake 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 somebody el se maki ng new software. I al ways wonder how he coul d get so ri ch so qui ckl y. H as he done i t by fai r m eans? O r has he done i t by bei ng a puter bul y? 必修二 Unit 1 In search of the am ber room Frederi ck Wi l i am I, the ki ng of Prusi a, coul d never have i m agi ned that his greatest gi ft to the Rusi an peopl e woul d have such an am azi ng history. Thi s gi ft 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 amber whi ch was sel ected had a beautiful yel owbrown col our li ke honey. The desi gn 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 tok the country’s best artists about ten years to make. In fact, the room was not made to be a gi ft. It was desi gned for the palace of Fredri ck I. H owever, the next Ki ng of Prussi a, Fredri ck Wil li am I, to whom the am ber rom belonged, deci ded not to kep i t. In 1716 he gave i t to Peter the Great. In return, the Czar sent him a troop of hi s best sol diers. So the Amber Rom became part of the Czar’s winter palace in St Petersburg. About four met