There are many different ways of seeing a town for the first time. One of them is to walk around it, guide-book 36 hand. Of course, we may 37 with our guide-books the history and 38 developments of a town and get to know them. 39 then, if we take out time and 40 in a town for a while, we may get to know it better. When we 41 it as a whole, we begin to have some 42 ,which even the best guide-books do not answer. Why is the town just 43 this, this shape, this plan, this size? Why do its streets 44 in this particular way, and not in any 45 why?
Here even the best guide-book 46 us. One can’t find in it the information about how a town has developed to the 47 appearance. It may not describe the original (最初的) 48 of a town. However, one may get some idea of what I 49 look like by walking around the town. One can also imagine 50 the town was first planned and build. Then one can learn more about in what direction the town 51 to develop.
What is the 52 of studying towns in the way? For me, it is 53 that one gets a greater depth of pleasure by visiting and seeing a town with one’s own eyes. A 54 visit to a town may help one better understand why it is attractive 55 just reading about it in a guide-book.
36. A. in | B. at | C. by | D. on |
37. A. write | B. study | C. tell | D. remember |
38. A. strange | B. similar | C. separate | D. special |
39. A. But | B. Before | C. Since | D. Until |
40. A. march | B. work | C. stay | D. wait |
41. A. look at | B. look after | C. look for | D. look up |
42. A. ideas | B. opinions | C. feelings | D. questions |
43. A. of | B. for | C. like | D. as |
44. A. open | B. run | C. begin | D. move |
45. A. one | B. more | C. other | D. such |
46. A. helps | B. tricks | C. fails | D. satisfies |
47. A. old | B. normal | C. first | D. present |
48. A. capital | B. meaning | C. design | D. change |
49. A. used to | B. seemed to | C. had to | D. happened to |
50. A. what | B. how | C. when | D. where |
51. A. stops | B. appears | C. starts | D. continues |
52. A. point | B. view | C. problem | D. difficulty |
53. A. nearly | B. simply | C. generally | D. hardly |
54. A. costly | B. formal | C. group | D. personal |
55. A. from | B. than | C. through | D. with |