The world-famous Eiffel Tower takes its name from French engineer Gustave Eiffel, whose company designed (设计) and built it. In France, the Eiffel Tower is known as La Tour Eiffel or La dame de fer, which means “the Iron (铁) Lady”.

The Eiffel Tower is an iron tower that stands about 320 meters tall. To build the Eiffel Tower, hundreds of workers used more than 2 million rivets (铆钉) to join together more than 18,000 pieces of iron.

The Eiffel Tower was completed on March 31, 1889, and has since become the symbol of Paris and France, as well as one of the most famous structures in the world. At completion, it surpassed (超过) the Washington Monument as the tallest man-made structure in the world, until 1930 when the Chrysler Building was built in New York City. Today, the Eiffel Tower remains (仍然是) the tallest building in Paris.

The look of the Eiffel Tower is greatly loved by people today, but things were different when the design was first shown to the public. Many French artists thought that the design was ugly. The people of Paris considered it to be an eyesore and wanted to pull it down. However, Eiffel did not change a little. He believed that once it was completed, people in Paris and visitors around the world would love the tower. And the City of Paris planned to pull the tower down 20 years after it was completed. However, it turned out to be valuable as a radio communications tower, so it was allowed to stay.

Today, the Eiffel Tower is a tourist attraction around the world. Experts say more than 200 million people have visited the Eiffel Tower since it was opened to the public!

We often think about why money disappeared so quickly. That may be because we didn’t have a good budget. A budget is a plan to control where your money goes. A good budget can help you use money wisely. For example, it can help you save money for the things that you want but can’t pay for now. Have a look at the budget of Simon’s family this month and you will get a clear idea about what a budget is. The income of Simon’s family a month is RMB 6,000.

The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2021 was awarded (授予) to the novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah.     16     Seven of those came in the 21st century.

Abdulrazak Gurnah was born in 1948 and grew up on the island of Zanzibar, Tanzania, in Africa. He arrived in England as a refugee (难民) at the end of the 1960s.     17     And that allowed him to see his father shortly before the father’s death.

Before he retired (退休), Gurnah was a teacher at the University of Kent in England.     18     Most of them are about the refugees’ lives.

He began writing at 21. Although Swahili is his first language, he wrote in English. His 1994 novel Paradise tells the story of a boy growing up in Tanzania in the early 20th century during World War I.     19     And his recent work, Afterlives, tells a story about a boy named Ilyas.     20     He returned to his village after years fighting in a war against his own people.