Interior Design A. circumstance B. environment C. surroundings D. space
Although interior design has existed since the beginning of architecture, its development into a specialized field is really quite recent. Interior designers have become important partly because of the many functions that might be (51) in a single large building.
B. The importance of interior design becomes (52) when we realize how much time we (53) surrounded by four walls. Whenever we need to be indoors, we want our surroundings to be (54) attractive and comfortable as possible. We also expect (55) place to be appropriate to its use.
C. You would be (56) if the inside of your bedroom were suddenly changed to look (57) the inside of a restaurant. And you wouldn’t feel (58) in a business office that has the appearance of a school.
D. It soon becomes clear that the interior designer’s most important basic (59) is the function of the particular (60) , for example, a theatre with poor sight lines, poor sound shaping qualities, and (61) few entries and exists will not work for (62) purposes, no matter how beautifully it might be (63) . Nevertheless, for any kind of space, the designer has to make many of the same kind of (64) . He or she must coordinate the shapes, lighting and decoration of everything from ceilling to floor, (65) addition, the designer must usually select furniture or design built-in furniture, according to the functions that need to be served.
Eiffel Is an Eyeful Some 300 meters up, near the Eiffel 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 Tour Eiffel 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 what After all, the tower doesn’t have a purpose. It ceased to be the world’s tallest in 1930 when the Chrysler Building went up in New York. Yes, television and radio signals are beamed from the top, and Gustave Eiffel, a frenetic builder who died on December 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 Isabelle Esnous, whose company manages Eiffel Tower. What did the builder use the Eiffel Tower for
A. Sending radio and television signals all over the world.
B. Conducting research in various fields.
C. Giving people inspiration.
Demonstrating French culture.