【正文】 burg. This was atime when the two countries were at war. Before the N azis could get to the summer pal ace, the Rusi ans were able to remove some furnitures and smal l art objects from the Am ber Room. However, som e of the Nazis secretl y stole the rom i tsel f. In less than two days 100000 pieces were put i nsi de twentyseven wooden boxes. There i s no doubt that the boxes were then put on a train for Koni gsberg, which was at a ti me a German ci ty on the Balti c Sea. After that, what happened to the Amber Room remains a mystery. Recentl y, the Russi ans and Germans have bui lt a new Am ber Room at the summer palace. By studying ol d photos of the form er Am ber room, they have m ade the new one l ooke li ke the ol d one. In 2020 i t was ready for the peopl e of St Petersburg when they cel ebrated the 300th bithday of thei r city. A fact of an opi nion What i s a fact? Is i t som ethi ng that peopl e beli eve? No. A fact i s anything that can be proved. For exampl e, i t can be proved that Chi na has m ore peopl e than any other country i n the worl d. Thi s i s a fact. Then what i s an opi ni on? An opi nion i s what som eone bel i 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 ple, i t is an opinion if you say “Cats are better pets than dogs”. It may be true, but it is dificul t to prove. Some people may not agree wi th thi s 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 eyewitnesses to bel i eve and whi ch not to beli eve. The judge does not consi der what each eyewi tness l ooks l i ke or where that person li ves or works. H e/She onl y cares about whether the eyewi tness has gi ven true inform ati on, whi ch m ust be facts rather than opi ni ons. Thi s ki nd of i nform ati on is cal l ed evi dence. Bi g Feng to the rescue His friends and famil y cal him “Big Feng” because he is bery tal l and played basketbal l as a young m an. But he is al so bi g i n a di fferent way — he fights hard to protect China’s past. H is real name is Feng Jicai and he has written many novel s about l ife in China. 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 anji n, where he li ves. O nce som eon asked him why he no l onger wrote. He repli ed that at the m om ent he fel t protecti ng cul tural reli cs was m ore i m portant. Feng l oves hi s hom etown. He bel i eves that ol d things m ust be given a pl ave next to new thi ns, or peopl e wi l soon fet ther great past. H e does not m ake speeches to get others to hel p him i n hi s projects. Instead he goes out and does what he can hi m esel f. If others fol l ow 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 某某 省 月球 區(qū) 2020 年 節(jié)水灌溉 增效 示范項(xiàng)目 可行性研究報(bào)告 某某 省水利科學(xué)研究院 二 ○○ 七 年 一 月 coul d save into wagons. They hel ped one another cl imb the high hil l s around the city. Never in al l SanFrsncio’s histroy were her peopl e so ki nd as on that terri bl e ni ght. Uni t 5 El i as’ story My nam e i s Eli as. I am a poor worker i n SouthAfri ca. The tim e when I fi rst m et N el son Mandel a was a very di fficul t peri od of m y li fe. I was twel ve years ol d. It was i n 1952 and Mandel a was the bl ack lawyer to whom I went for advi ce. H e offered gui dance to por bl ack peopl e on thei r l egal probl em s. H e was generous wi th hi s tim e, for which I was grateful. I needed hi s hel p because I had very li ttl e educati on. I began school at si x. The school where I studi ed for onl y two years was three ki lom eters away. I had to l eave because m y fami l y coul d not conti nue to pay the schol fees and the bus fare. I coul d not read or wri te wel . After tryi ng hard, I got a job i n a gol d mi ne. H owever, thi s was a ti me when one had to got to have a passbook to li ve i n Johannesburg. Sadl y I di d not have i t because I was not born there, and I worri ed about whether I woul d be e out of work. The day when N el son Mandel a hel ped m e was one of m y happi est. H e tol d m e how to get the correct papers so I coul d stay i n Johannesburg. I became m ore hopeful about m y future. I never fot how ki nd Mandel a was. When he ani zed the AN C Youth League, I joi ned i t as soon as I coul d. H e sai d: “ The l ast thi rty years have seen the greatest num ber of laws stopping our ri ghts and progress,until today we have reached a stage where we have alm ost no ri ghts at al l. ” It was the truth. Bl ack peopl e coul d not vote or choose thei r l eaders. They coul d not get the jobs they wanted. The parts of town in which they had to li ve were deci ded by whi te peopl e. The pl aces outsi de the towns where they were sent to li ve were the poorest parts of South Afri ca. N o one coul d grow food there,. In fact as Nel son Mandela sai d: “… We were put i nto a posi ti on i n whi ch we had ei ther to accept we were l ess im portant, or fight the governm ent. We chose to atack the l aws. We fi rst broke the l aw i n a way which was peaceful。coul d save into wagons. They hel ped one another cl imb the high hil l s around the city. Never in al l SanFrsncio’s histroy were her peopl e so ki nd as on that terri bl e ni ght. Uni t 5 El i as’ story My nam e i s Eli as. I am a poor worker i n SouthAfri ca. The tim e when I fi rst m et N el son Mandel a was a very di fficul t peri od of m y li fe. I was twel ve years ol d. It was i n 1952 and Mandel a was the bl ack lawyer to whom I went for advi ce. H e offered gui dance to por bl ack peopl e on thei r l egal probl em s. H e was generous wi th hi s tim e, for which I was