May 10th is Meg’s birthday. She gets a gift from her sister. It is a new coat .The coat is very beautiful and she feels very happy.

     One day, Meg finds that a button(纽 扣) of her coat is lost. She looks for the button everywhere, but she can’t find it. The next day, she doesn’t wear that coat to school and feels sad all day. After school, she goes to the clothes shops and wants to buy that kind of clothes. But she doesn’t find it. She feels very disappointed.

     Meg tells her sister about that, and her sister says, “We can change all the buttons. Then the buttons will be the same.” The coat is beau  tiful again and Meg feels happy again.

据1895年《纽约时报》报道，恭亲王在接受采访时表示，他自己并不了解日本人发动战争的目的，抑或日本人想从战争中获得什么。他说：“难道日本人能侵占我们所有的省份吗？他们这样做苍天会答应吗？其他民族、其他国家会坐视不管吗？”上述材料反映出甲午中日战争失败的原因是（　　）