There are many different ways of seeing a town for the first time. One of them is to walk around it, guide-book 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, 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 guide-book. |