第二节：完形填空（共20小题；每小题1分，满分20分）
阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从36～55各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项。
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   development of a town and get to know them.    39  then, if we take our 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  way?
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 it   49   look like by walking around the town. One can also imagine   50   the town was first planned and built. 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. match    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

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