【正文】 n di d we deci de to answer vi ol ence with vi olence. ” As a m atter of fact, I do not l i ke vi ol ence… but i n 1963 I hel ped hi m bl ow up som e governm ent buil dings. 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 aki ng bl ack and whi te peopl e equal. The rest of Eli as’ story You cannot i m 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 li fe. But when I got there N el son Mandel a was al so there and he hel ped me. Mr Mandela began a school for those of us who had l ittl e l earni ng. We read books under our blankets 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 owed to do that. Later, Mr Mandel a al l owed the pri son guards to joi n us. H e sai d they shoul d not be stopped from studyi ng for their degrees. They were not cl everer than m e, but they di d pass thei r exam s. So I knew I coul d get a degree too. That m ade m e feel god about m ysel f. When I fini shed the four years i n pri son, 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 my bos that I had been i n prison for bl owi ng up governm ent 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 i n 1994. Al l that ti me m y wi fe and chil dren 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 prison on Robben Isl and. I fel t 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 em bered the beati ngs 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 it, 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 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 sitors over the prison, for I hel ped to make our peopl e free in thei r own l and. A fol l ower of Bil l Gates I have been a friend of Bil Gates for a l ong tim e. I knew hi m when he was a student at H arvard 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 China! Of course he has m ade a l ot of m oney and that m akes peopl e very jeal ous. They want to stop hi s success. Even the governm ent i s agai nst hi m and has tri ed to break hi s pany i nto two parts. They say that he is unfai r to other peopl e who want to sel sim il ar software. Because hefi ts his new software free i n every new puter, the governm ent says he i s stoppi ng 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. 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. H e has gi ven m il li ons of dol ars to help the educati on and the health of m any chil dren around the worl d. You coul d not m eet a beter m an than Bil l Gates. A peti tors of Bil l 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 money? H e has down thi s by m aki ng sure that no one el se wil be abl e to pete wi th hi s software. Hi s software i s not the best but i t is used m ost wi del y i n the worl d. 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 maki ng beter software. In 1995 the governm ent tri ed to m ake thi ngs fai rer for peopl e l i ke m e. The governm ent wanted to make 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 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 means? Or has he done i t by bei ng a puter bul y? 必修二 Uni t 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 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 given thi s nam e because several tons of am ber were used to m ake it. The am ber which was sel ected had a beautiful yel l owbrown col our l i ke honey. The desi gn of the room was i n the fancy style popul ar i n those days. It was also a treasure decorated with gol d and jewel s, which tok the country’s best artists about ten years to m ake. In fact, the room was not m ade 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 Wi li am 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 him a troop of hi s best sol di ers. So the Am ber Rom becam e part of the Czar’s winter pal ace in St Petersburg. About four m etres l ong, the room served as a sm al recepti on hal for im portant 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 pl eted the way she wanted. Alm ost si x hundred candl es li t the room , and i ts m i rors and pi ctures shone li ke gol d