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There are many different ways of seeing a town for the first time．One of them is to walk around it with a guidebook in hand．Of course, we may 1 with our guide-books the history and special developments of a town and get to know them． 2 then, if we take our time and stay in a town for a while, we may get to know it better．When we look at it as a whole, we begin to have some 3 , which even the best guide-books do not answer．Why is the town just 4 this, this shape(形狀), this plan, this size? Why do its streets 5 in this particular way, and not in any other way?
Here even the best guide-book fails us．One can’t find in it the information about how a town has developed to the 6 appearance．It may not describe the original(最初的)design of a town．However, one may get some ideas of what it 7 to look like by walking around the town．One can also imagine 8 the town was first planned and built．Then one can learn more about in what direction the town 9 to develop．
What is the point of studying towns in this way? For me, it is simply that one gets greater pleasure by visiting and seeing a town with one’s own eyes．A personal visit to a town may help one better understand why it is attractive 10 just reading about it in a guidebook．
