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Eiffel Is anEyefull
Some 2,300 meters up, near theEiffel Tower’s wind-whipped summit the world comes to scribble. Japanese,Brazilians,Americans--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 Paris laid out in miniature below, it seems strange that visitors would rather waste time marking their presence than admire the view.But 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 la TourEiffel 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 whatAfter all, the tower doesn’t have a purpose. It ceased to be the world’s tallest in 1930 when theChryslerBuilding went up in New York. Yes, television and radio signals are beamed from the top, and GustaveEiffel, a frenetic builder who died onDecember 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 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 IsabelleEsnous, whose company managesEiffel Tower.
Which of the following is nearest in meaning to " (TheEiffel Tower is like) a blank canvas for visitors to make of it what they will"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.

网考网参考答案:C
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