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巩固拓展案六 第二部分 阅读理解(共两节，满分0分) 第一节 （共 15 小题；每小题 分，满分 分） 阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C、和 D）中，选出最佳选项A Close your eyes and picture the city of Paris．Now imagine the city without its most famous landmark：the Eiffel Tower． The unthinkable almost happened． When French engineer Gustave Eiffel built this tower for the Paris World’s Fair of 1889，it was controversial．The iron structure contrasted(对比)sharply with the historic stone buildings of Paris．Eiffel’s four-legged iron archway was supposed to last only 20 years．That’s when Eiffel’s permit to operate the building would expire(过期)and the city could ch