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2012年职称英语综合类新增文章—阅读理解 7.*第十八篇：Goal of American Education（2011年教材中为C级文章）美国教育的目标 8.*第十九篇：The Family家庭 9.*第二十篇：Tales of the Terrible Past讲述可怕的过去 10.*第二十一篇：Spacing in Animals（2011年教材中为C级文章）动物的空间距离 11.*第二十二篇：Some Things We Know about Language（2011年教材中为C级文章）我们知道的关于语言的一些事情 12.*第二十三篇：The Only Way Is Up（2011年教材中为C级文章）只好向上 13.*第二十四篇：Clone Farm（2011年教材中为C级文章）克隆农场 14.*第二十五篇：Income（2011年教材中为C级文章）收入 15.*第二十六篇：Seeing the World Centuries Ago看许久以前的世界 16.*第二十七篇：Importance of Services（2011年教材中为C级文章）服务业的重要性 17.*第二十八篇：The National Park Service（2011年教材中为C级文章）国家公园的服务机构 18.*第二十九篇：Find Yourself Packing It On? Blame Friends（2011年教材中为C级文章）发现自己变胖了？这得责怪朋友们 19.*第三十篇：Lucky Lord Lucan - Alive or Dead“幸运的”鲁肯伯爵一是死是活 20.*第三十三篇：Oseola McCarty老妇人Oseola McCarty 第十七篇 Eiffel Is An Eyeful1Some2 300 meters up, near the Eiffel Towers wind-whipped summit the world comes to scribble3. Japanese,Brazilians, Americans — they graffiti4 their names,loves and politics on the cold iron — transforming the most French of monuments into symbol of a world on the move5.With Paris laid out in miniature6 below，it seems strange that visitors would rather waste time marking their presence than admiring the view7. 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 Tour Eiffel still so popular8?The reasons are as complex as the iron work that graces9 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 Richard10,a 31- year-old Frenchman who holds the record for cycling up to the towers second floor 一 747 steps in 19 minutes and 4 seconds, without touching the floor with his feet. Its iron lady，It inspires us11 ”， he says.But to what12? After all,the tower doesn t have a pu