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Some 300 meters up, near the Eiffel Tower’s wind-whipped summit the world comes to scribble. Japanese, Brazilians, Americans—the
Some 300 meters up, near the Eiffel Tower’s wind-whipped summit the world comes to scribble. Japanese, Brazilians, Americans—the
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2012-08-10
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Some 300 meters up, near the Eiffel Tower’s wind-whipped summit the world comes to scribble. Japanese, Brazilians, Americans—they graffiti (涂鸦) their names, loves and politics on the cold iron— transforming the most French of monuments into symbol of a world on the move.
With Paris laid out in miniature below, it seems strange that visitors would rather waste time marking their presence than admiring the view. But the graffiti also raises a question: why, nearly 114 years after it was completed, and decades since it ceased to be the world’s tallest structure, is La Tour Eiffel (法文,埃菲尔铁塔) still so popular?
The reasons are as complex as the iron work that graces a structure some 90 stories high. But part of the answer is, no doubt, its agelessness. Regularly maintained, it should never rust away. Graffiti is regularly painted over, but the tower lives on.
"Eiffel represents Paris and Paris is France. It 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 purpose. It ceased to be the world’s tallest in 1930 when the Chrysler Building went up in New York. Yes, television and radio signals are beamed from the top, and Gustave Eiffel, a frenetic (狂热的) builder who died on December 27, aged 91, used its height for conducting research into weather, aerodynamics (空气动力学) and radio communication.
But in essence the tower inspires simply by being there— a blank canvas for visitors to make of it what they will. To the technically minded, it’s an engineering triumph. For lovers, it’s romantic.
"The tower will outlast all of us, and by a long way," says Isabelle Esnous, whose company manages Eiffel Tower.
Which 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"?
选项
A、Visitors can do whatever they want on the tower.
B、Visitors can paint on the tower whatever they want.
C、Visitors can imagine freely what the tower represents.
D、Visitors can draw on a blank canvas provided by the Tower management company.
答案
C
解析
可定位在第6段,问题的重点在于解释“a blank canvas for visitors to make of it whatthey will(埃菲尔铁塔就像一张空白的油布,任游客自由遐想)”,本段后面几句继续诠释其含义:对于那些善于从技术角度考虑问题的人来说,它是一个工程上的胜利;而对于恋人们来说,它则象征着浪漫。因而应从概括的角度,则选择C。
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