高考◆英语◆安徽省題庫下載題庫

There are many different ways of seeing a town forthe first time. One of them is to walk around it,guide-book ___36___ hand. Of course, we may___37___ with our guide-books the historyand___38___developments of a town and get toknow them. ___39___ then, if we take out timeand___40___in a town for a while, we may get to know it better. When we ___41___ it as awhole, we begin to have some___42___, which even the best guide-books do not answer. Whyis the town just___43___this, this shape, this plan, this size? Why do its streets___44___ inthis 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 atown 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 walkingaround the town. One can also imagine___50___the town was first planned and built. Then onecan 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 agreater depth of pleasure by visiting and seeing a town with one’s own eyes. A___54___visit toa town may help one better understand why it is attractive___55___just reading about it in aguide-book.