【正文】 s winter palace in St four metres long, the room served as a small reception hall for important ,Catherine Ⅱ had the Amber Room moved to a palace outside St Petersburg where she spent her told her artists to add more details to 1770 the room was pleted the way she six hundred candles lit the room ,and its mirrors and pictures shone like , although the Amber Room was considered one of the wonders of the world , it is now September 1941, the Nazi army was near St was a time when the two countries were at the Nazis could get to the summer palace , the Russians were able to remove some furniture and small art objects from the Amber , some of the Nazis secretly stole the room less than two days 100,000 pieces were put inside twentyseven woooden is no doubt that the boxs were then put on a train for Konigsberg, which was at that time a German city on the Baltic that, what happened to the Amber Room remains a , the Russians and Germans have built a new Amber Room at the summer studying old photos of the former Amber Room , they have made the new one look like the old 2003 it was ready for the people of St Petersburg when they celebrated the 300th birthday of their FACT OR AN OPINION?What is a fact? Is it something that people believe? fact is anything that can be example, it can be proved that China has more people than any other country in the is a what is an opinion? An opinion is what someone believes is true but has not been an opinion is not good evidence in a example, it is an opinion if you say ―Cats are better pets than dogs‖.It may be true, but it is difficult to people may not agree with this opinion but they also cannot prove that they are a trial, a judge must decide which eyewitnesses to believe and which not to judge does not consider what each eyewitness looks like or where that person lives or , which must be facts rather than kind of information is called 2AN INTERVIEWPausanias, who was a Greek writer about 2,000 years ago, has e on a magical journey on March 18th 2007 to find out about the presentday Olympic is now interviewing Li Yan, a volunteer for the 20。 STORYYou cannot imagine how the name of Robben Island made us was a prison from which no one I spent the hardest time of my when I got there Nelsom Mandela was also there and he helped Mandela began a school for those of us who had little taught us during the lunch breaks and the evenings when we should have been read books under our blankets and used anything we could find to make candles to see the became a good wanted to study for my degree but I was not allowed to do , Mr Mandela allowed the prison guards to join said they should not be stopped from studying for their were not cleverer than me , but they did pass their I knwe I could get a degree made me feel good about I finished the four years in prison, I went to find a I was better educated, I got a job working in an , the police found out and told my boss that I had been in prinson for blowing up government I lost my did not work again for twenty years until M r Mandela and the ANC came to power in that time my wife and children had to beg for good and help from relatives or Mr Mandela remembered me and gave me a job taking tourists around my old prison on Robben felt bad the first time I talked to a the terror and fear of that time came back to remembered the beatings and the cruelty of the guards and my friends who had felt I would not be able to do it, but my family encouraged said that the job and the pay from the new South African government were my reward after working all my life for equal rights for the now at 51 I am proud to show visitors over the prison, for I helped to make our people free in their own unit1IN SEARCH OF THE AMBER ROOMFrederick William Ⅰ，the King of Prussia , could never have imagined that his greatest gift to the Russian people would have such an amazing gift was the Amber Room , which was given this name because several tons of amber were used to make amber which was selected had a beautiful yellowbrown colour like design of the room was in the fancy style popular in those was also a treasure decorated with gold and jewels , which took the country39。s hospitals,75%of its factories and buildings and 90% of its homes were covered the ground like red autumn wind,however,could blow them dams fell and most of the bridges also fell or were not safe for railway tracks were now useless pieces of of thousands of cows would never give milk a million oigs and millions of chickens were now filled the wells instead of were ,later that afternoon,another big quake which was almost as strong as the first one shook of the rescue workers and doctors were trapped under the buildings fell ,food,and electricity were hard to begab to wonder how long the disaster would hope was not after the quakes,the army sent 150,000 soldiers to Tangshan to help the rescue of thousands of people were army organized teams to dig out those who were trapped and to bury the the north of the city,most of the 10,000 miners were rescued from the coal mines built shelters for survivors whose homes had been water was taken to the city bu train,truck and ,the city began to breathe of the City GovernmentTangshan,HebeiChinaJuly5,2007Dear____，Congratulations!We are pleased to tell you that you have won the high school speaking petition about new speech was heard by a group of five judges, all of whom agreed that it was the best one this parents and your school should be very proud of you!Next month the city will open a new park to honour those who died in the terrible park will also honour those who helped the office would like to have you speak to the park vistors on July 28 at 11:00 you know,this is the day the quake happened thirty____years invite you to bring your family and friends on that special ，Zhang ShaUnit 5ELIAS’ STORYMy name is am a poor black worker in