Eiffel Is an Eyeful
Some 300 meters up,near the Eiffel Tower's wind-whipped summit the world comes to nese,icans-they graffiti their names,loves and politics on the cold iron-transforming the most French of monuments into symbol of a world on the move.
With Pairs laid out in miniature below,it seems strange that visitors would rather waste time marking their presence than admiring the the graffiti also raises a question:Why,nearly 114 years after it was completed,and decades after it ceased to be the world's tallest structure,is the Tour Eiffel still so popular?
The reasons are as complex as the iron work that graces a structure some 90 stories part of the answer is,no doubt,its agelessness,regularly maintained,it should never rust fiti is regularly painted over,but the tower lives on.
"Eiffel represents Paris and Paris is is very symbolic,"says Hugues Richard,a 31-year-old Frenchman who holds the record for cycling up to the tower's second floor-747 steps in 19 minutes and 4 seconds,without touching the floor with his feet."It's iron lady,it inspires us，"he says.
But to what?After all,the tower doesn't have a ceased to be the world's tallest in 1930 when the Chrysler Building went up in New ,television and radio signals are beamed from the top,and Gustave Eiffel,a frenetic builder who died on December 27,aged 91,used its height for conducting research into weather,aerodynamics and radio communication.
But in essence the tower inspires simply by being there-a blank canvas for visitors to make of it what they the technically minded,it's an engineering lovers,it's romantic.
"The tower will outlast all of us,and by a long way,"says Isabelle Esnous,whose ges Eiffel Tower.
does the author think the Eiffel Tower is transformed into symbol of a world of the move?____________
ists from all over the world come to the Eiffel Tower by car or by plane.
ists of all nationalities come to scribble on the cold iron of the tower.
Eiffel Tower is the tallest building in the world.
Eiffel Tower represents all the towers in the world.
seems strange to the author?____________
tors prefer wasting time scribbling to enjoying the view.
tors spends much time watching other people scribbling.
Japanese,Brazilians and Americans like to mark their presence.
bbling spread from country to country.
h statements is NOT true of Hugues Richard?____________
is a cyclist.
is a record holder.
climbed 747 steps up the tower in 19 minutes and 4 seconds.
cycled up to the tower's second floor.
did the builder use the Eiffel Tower for?____________
ing radio and television signals all over the world.
ucting research in various fields.
ng people inspiration.
nstrating French culture.
h of the following is nearest in meaning to "(The Eiffel Tower is like) a blank canvas for visitors to make of it what they will”?____________
tors can do whatever they want on the tower.
tors can paint on the tower whatever they want.
tors can imagine freely what the tower represents.
tors can draw on a blank canvas provided by the Tower management company.
參考答案：
31.B 第一段提供了答案。
32.A 第二段第一句中的句型would rather do something than do something else，也可以用prefer doing something to doing something else的.句型來表達。所以，A是正確答案。
33.C 第四段告訴我們，Hugues Richard蹬車上塔，打破世界紀錄。C不是正確選項，因為他cycling up to the tower‘s second floor，而不是climbing up the tower.
34.B 選項A不是正確選項，因為Gustave Eiffel沒有也不可能使用該塔向全世界發射電視訊號。第五段的最後一句提供了答案。
35.C 第六段的大意是：對不同的人，埃菲爾鐵塔有不同的象徵意義。
