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必修（二）

Unit 1 Cultural relics

IN SEARCH OF THE AMBER ROOM

Frederick William I, the King of Prussia, ______ (can, never, imagine) that his greatest _____ to the Russian people would have such a strange history. This gift was the Amber Room, _____ was given this name because almost seven thousand tons of amber were used to make it. Amber has a beautiful yellow-brown colour. A______ it feels as hard as stone, it easily melts when ______ (heat ). Once it is heated, the amber can be made _____ any shape. The design for the room was of the fancy style p_____ in those days. The Amber Room was also made with gold and jewels. It _____ a team of the country’s best artists ten years to make it. Everyone agreed that it was the best_____(good) and ______(big) work of amber art ever made.

In fact, the room was not made to be a gift. It was made for the palace of Frederick I. However, the next king of Prussia decided not to k__ it. In 1716, Frederick William I gave _____ to Peter the Great, as a gift of friendship from the Prussian to the Russian people. In r__ , the Czar gave the king of Prussia 55 of his best soldiers. The Amber Room soon became part of the Czar’s winter palace in St Petersburg. About four metres long, the room served __ a small reception hall for important _______(visit).

Later, Catherine II had the Amber Room ______ (move) to the palace outside St

Petersburg __ she spent her summers. She told her artists to add more d___ to its design. In 1770, the room was ______ (complete) the way she wanted it. Almost six hundred candles ______(light) the room. Its mirrors and pictures shone like gold. S__ , although the Amber Room was one of the great w__ of the world, it is now _____(miss).

In September,1941 the Nazi German army was near St Petersburg. This was a time______ the two countries were_____war. However, __ the Nazis could get to the summer palace, the Russians were only able to remove the f__ and small art objects from the Amber Room. But some of the Nazis s__ stole the Amber Room itself. In less than two days, 100,000 pieces of the room were put inside twenty-seven______(wood) boxes. There is no d_____ that the boxes were then put on a train ______ Konigsberg, at that time a German city on the Baltic Sea. After that, _____ really happened to the Amber Room remains a mystery.

While the s__ for the old room continues, the Russians and Germans have built a new Amber Room at the summer palace. __ (Follow)old photos, the new room has been made to look much ____ the old one. In ________(spring) of 2003, it was ready for the people of St Petersburg to c______ the 300th birthday of their city.

Using language

In a trial, a_____ must decide which eyewitnesses _____(believe) and which not to believe. The judge does not consider how each eyewitness looks or _____ that person lives or works. The judge cares only __ the eyewitness has

given_____(use) information, which must be facts, rather than o__ . This kind of information is called __ . So what is a fact? Is it something that more than one person b__ ? Or is it something that more than one person has seen or done? The answer ___ both of these questions is “No”. Then what really is a fact? A fact is anything that can be p__ . For example, it can be proved_____ China has more people than any _____ country in the world.

Of course, some people will never believe something is a fact _____ they are given lots of evidence. For example, men __ (walk) on the moon, but some people don’t believe it. They think the men are not t_____ the truth. They also think that the TV pictures of these men are not __ .

Then what is an opinion? An opinion is _____ someone believes is true but has not been proved. So an opinion is not good evidence in a _____. For example, it is an opinion if you say: “It is good for China not to have too many people.” It may be good, but it is difficult to prove. Some people might not agree __ this opinion but they also cannot prove they are right.