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Good afternoon, class, today we are going to discuss the construction of one of the world's most famous tourist attractions. It's located in the middle of Paris, France. (20) It's the Eiffel Tower, designed by Gustave Eiffel and built between 1887 and 1889. The Eiffel Tower today remains the tallest structure in Paris, standing 300 meters high. The iron structure of the tower weighs a total of 7,300 tons. It took 300 workers to join together 18,038 pieces of puddle iron with three and a half million metal pins to set up the tower. That doesn't sound like such a big deal by today's standards, but for the time, it was the tallest structure in the world. It held the record for over 40 years.
(21) The tower was built to be the gateway into the 1889 World's Fair in Paris. Well, as famous as it is, many members of the French public did not approve of the tower. One famous novelist even ate his lunch at a restaurant near the tower because he felt it was the only place he could eat without having to see it.
And furthermore, the City of Paris had an agreement with Gustave Eiffel that after twenty years, rights to the tower would be theirs. Gustave Eiffel had a permit for the tower to stand for 20 years; it was to be demolished in 1909, when its ownership would belong to the City of Paris. (22) The City of Paris had planned to tear it down but as the tower proved valuable for communication purposes, it was allowed to remain after the permit expired. By that time, the tower was so firmly established in French history that they could not tear it down. The military used it to dispatch Parisian taxis to the front line during the First Battle of the Marne.
20. How long did it take to build the Eiffel Tower?
21. For what purpose was the Eiffel Tower built?
22. Why wasn't the Eiffel Tower torn down as planned?
同學(xué)們，下午好，今天我們將討論一個世界著名景點的建造。它位于法國巴黎市中心。它就是埃菲爾鐵塔，由古斯塔夫·埃菲爾設(shè)計，于1887年到1889年間建成。埃菲爾鐵塔至今仍是巴黎最高的建筑，高達300米。整個鐵塔塔身重7300噸。這座塔是由300位工人用18038片鋼鐵、350萬顆金屬釘搭建而成。按照如今的標(biāo)準(zhǔn)，這并不是什么大工程，但是對當(dāng)時來說，它是世界最高的建筑結(jié)構(gòu)，并維持該紀(jì)錄40多年。
埃菲爾鐵塔是為了1889年的巴黎世界博覽會而落成的。雖然該塔很有名氣，很多法國人并不喜歡它。一位著名的小說家甚至跑道埃菲爾鐵塔附近的餐廳去吃飯，因為他覺得這里是唯一在吃飯時看不到它的地方。
而且，巴黎市政府曾與古斯塔夫·埃菲爾達成協(xié)議，二十年后這座塔的所有權(quán)將歸政府所有。他們允許古斯塔夫·埃菲爾的塔聳立20年，原定于在1909年這座塔的所有權(quán)將歸巴黎市政府之后將其拆毀。巴黎市政府曾經(jīng)計劃將埃菲爾鐵塔拆除，但是在到期之后卻將其保留了下來，原因是埃菲爾鐵塔被證明極具通訊價值。到那時，埃菲爾鐵塔在法國歷史上已經(jīng)有了十分重要的地位，他們已經(jīng)無法拆除。第一次馬恩河戰(zhàn)役中軍方利用該塔派遣巴黎出租汽車去往前線。
問題20 建造埃菲爾鐵塔花了多長時間？
問題21 埃菲爾鐵塔的建造目的是什么？
問題22 為什么埃菲爾鐵塔沒有按計劃被拆除？
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