【正文】 when thi s was not al l owed… only then di d we deci de to answer vi ol ence wi th vi ol ence. ” As a matter of fact, I do not li ke vi ol ence… but i n 1963 I helped hi m blow up som e governm ent buil di ngs. It was very dangerous because i f I was caught I coul d be put in pri son. But I was very happy to hel p because I knew i t woul d hel p us achi eve our dream of m aking bl ack and whi te peopl e equal. The rest of Eli as’ story You cannot im agi ne how the nam e of Robben Isl and m ade us afrai d. It was a pri son from whi ch no one escaped. There I spent the hardest tim e of m y l i fe. But when I got there N el son Mandela was also there and he helped m e. Mr Mandel a began a schol for those of us who had li ttl e l earni ng. We read books under our bl ankets and used anythi ng we coul d fi nd to make candl es to see the words. I becam e a good student. I wanted to study for degree but I was not al lowed to do that. Later, Mr Mandel a al lowed the pri son guards to joi n us. He 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 exams. So I knew I coul d get a degree to. That m ade m e feel good about m ysel f. When I fi nished the four years i n pri son, I went to fi nd a job. Si nce I was better educated, I got a job worki ng i n an offi ce. H owever, the pol ice found out and tol d m y boss that I had been i n pri son for bl owi ng up governm ent buil dings. 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 tim e my wife and chi l dren had to beg for food and hel p from rel ati ves or fri ends. Lucki ly 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 first tim e I tal ked to a group. Al the teror and fear of that tim e cam e back to m e. I rem em bered the beatings 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 i t, 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 my reward after worki ng al l my l i 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 make our peopl e free i n thei r own l and. A fol ower of Bil 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 versity to set up hi s own pany” Mi crosoft” and make hi s own software. But he was the cl ever 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 l ot of money and that m akes peopl e 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 his pany i nto two parts. They say that he i s unfai r to other peopl e who want to sel l si mi lar software. Because hefits hi s new software free i n every new puter, the governm ent says he i s stoppi ng other panies 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 their pany bi gger. Bi 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. He has given mi l i ons of dol l ars to hel p the education 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 l Gates. A petitors of Bil Gates Bi l Gates has ben very successful and be e very ri ch. H e i s very generous but how has he got hi s m oney? H e has down thi s by m aking sure that no one el se wi l be abl e to pete with hi s software. H i 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 neded, he m akes a program and produces i t qui cker than anybody el se. That way he gets a l arge part of the software market. Then he works on i mprovi ng the software l ater. H e tri es hard to stop others m aki ng better software. In 1995 the government tri ed to make thi ngs fai rer for peopl e l i ke m e. The governm ent wanted to m ake Mi crosoft i nto two pani es so that neither 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 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 ly? 必修二 Unit 1 In search of the am ber room Frederi ck Wi l iam I, the ki ng of Prusi a, coul d never have i m agi ned that his greatest gift to the Russi an peopl e woul d have such an am azi ng hi story. This gi ft was the Amber Room, whi ch was gi ven this 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 beautiful yel owbrown col our li ke honey. The desi gn of the room was i n the fancy style popul ar in 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 rom was not m ade to be a gi ft. It was desi gned for the pal ace of Fredrick I. H owever, the next Ki ng of Prussi a, Fredri ck Wi l i 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 troop of his best sol diers. So the Amber Room became part of the Czar’s winter pal ace in St Petersburg. About four m etres l ong, the room served as a smal recepti on hal for i m portant vi stors. Later, Catheri ne Ⅱ had the Am ber Room m oved to a palace outsi de St Petersburg where she spent her summ ers. She tol d her arti sts to add more detail s to i t. In 1770 the room 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 ct