In the following question, a set of sentences forming a meaningful
paragraph have been given out of which two sentences and three words are
missing. You have to fit the correct sentences/ words from the options
provided:
The most popular tourist place in Paris has stretched to the Parisian skies
for 127 years. Although now symbolic of France, it wasn’t meant to last.
Without a doubt, the turning point in the Eiffel Tower history took place
at the 1889 Universal Exposition. In commemoration of the 100th
anniversary of the French Revolution, a competition was organized with the
aim to “build on the Champ-de-Mars an iron tower with a square base, 125
meters wide and 300 meters
high.”_________________________________11_____________________________. By
his side were engineers Maurice Koechlin and Emile Nouguier as well as
architect Stephen Sauvestre.
The Eiffel Tower history was not an easy one. At the time, many were
against the building and voiced their ____12_____in a letter entitled "Artists
Against Mr. Eiffel’s Tower", stating the tower to be a threat against the
aesthetic nature of Paris. An iron tower erected smack in the heart of
Paris was considered unacceptable, a stark contrast to the elegance and
refined beauty of the city. For example, Verlaine nicknamed the Eiffel
Tower the “Skeleton of Beffroi” to demonstrate the giant tower’s ungainly
appearance that was bound to “disfigure” the city.
When the project came to being, it had been established that the licensing
rights linked to the convention for the tower’s construction would last
only 20 years, followed by imminent destruction.
_______________________________13_____________________________Following
this incredible success, the building became a symbol of French industrial
power. The Tower was as equally as successful during the 1900 Universal
Exposition. Determined to avoid the Tower’s destruction, Gustave Eiffel
went to great lengths to prove its scientific _____14____. Scientific
experiments were conducted in the fields of astronomy and physiology but
what would really save the Tower in the end was its use as a radio antenna
tower, first for military communications and then for permanent,
radiotelegraphy communications; in fact, the Tower served many a purpose
during the First World War. The Eiffel Tower is part of the French
History.
Every year approximately 7 million visitors climb the Tower. Its success
is such that many countries all over the world have _____15___ the Tower
more or less identically to the original one.
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