【正文】 hi s pany i nto two parts. They say that he is unfai r to other peopl e who want to sel l simi 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 li ng thei r program s. Thi s i s not fair. Everyone shoul d be abl e to do what they can to make thei r pany bi ger. Bil Gates has not onl y done what he can to stop other peti tors. H e is very ri ch, but he i s generous. H e has gi ven m il li ons of dol ars to hel p the educati on and the heal th of m any chil dren around the world. You coul d not meet a beter m an than Bil l 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 hi s m oney? He has down this by maki ng sure that no one else wi l be abl e to pete with hi s software. Hi s software is not the best but it i s used most wi del y i n the world. When he sees what i s needed, he m akes a program and produces it qui cker than anybody el se. That way he gets a l arge 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 better software. In 1995 the governm ent tri ed to m ake things 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 neither of them was so strong nor so rich. 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 quickl y. H as he done i t by fair m eans? O r has he done it by bei ng 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 Prussi a, coul d never have im agi ned that hi s greatest gi ft to the Russi an peopl e woul d have such an am azi ng hi story. 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 am ber whi ch was sel ected had a beauti ful yel lowbrown 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 al so a treasure decorated wi th gol d and jewel s, whi ch 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 Amber Room becam e part of the Czar’s winter palace in St Petersburg. About four metres l ong, the rom served as a smal reception hal for important vi stors. Later, Catheri ne Ⅱ had the Am ber Room m oved to a pal ace outsi de St Petersburg where she spent her summ ers. She tol d her arti sts to add m ore detail s to i t. In 1770 the room was pleted the way she wanted. Al m ost si x hundred candl es li t the room, and i ts mi rrors 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 m issi ng. 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 Nazi s coul d get to the summ er pal ace, the Russi ans were abl e to rem ove some furni tures and sm al l art objects from the Am ber Rom. H owever, som e of the N azis secretl y stol e the room i tsel 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 Konigsberg, whi ch was at a tim e a Germ an ci ty on the Bal ti c Sea. After that, what happened to the Am ber Room remai ns a mystery. Recentl y, the Russi 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 peopl e 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, it can be proved that China has m ore peopl e than any other country i n the worl d. Thi s is a fact. Then what i s an opi nion? An opini on is what som eone beli eves i s true but has not been proved. So an opi noi on i s not good evi dence i n a trail . For exam pl e, i t i s an opinion if you say “Cats are better pets than dogs”. It may be true, but it is difficul t to prove. Some peopl e may not agree wi th this 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 tneses to beli eve and whi ch not to bel ieve. The judge does not consi der what each eyewi tness l ooks l i ke or where that person l i ves or works. H e/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 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 and pl ayed basketbal as a young man. But he is also big i n a di fferent way — he fights hard to protect China’s past. H is real name is Feng Ji cai and he has wri ten m any novel s about l i fe i n Chi na. 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 anjin, where he l i ves. Once som eon asked him why he no l onger wrote. H e repl i ed that at the m om ent he fel t protecti ng cul tural reli cs was m ore i mportant. Feng l oves hi s hometown. H e beli eves that ol d thi ngs m ust be gi ven a pl ave next to new thi ns, or people wil son fet ther great past. H e does not m ake speeches to get others to help hi m i n hi s projects. Instead he goes out and does what he can him esel f. If others fol ow hi m, so m uch the be