阅读下面短文，从短文后所给各题的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳答案。
There are many different ways of visiting a town for the first time. One of them is to walk around it, with a guidebook in hand. Of course, with the guidebooks we may ____36____ the history and special development of a town. ____37____ 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 ____38____, which even the best guidebook cannot answer. Why is the town just ____39____ this, this shape, this plan or this size? Why do its streets ____40____ in this particular way, but not in any other way?
Here even the best guidebook fails us. One cannot find in it the information about how a town has developed into the ____41____ appearance. It may not describe the original (最初的) design of a town. However, one may get some idea of what it ____42____ to look like by walking around the town. One can also imagine ____43____ the town was first planned and built. Then one can learn more about the direction in which the town ____44____ to develop.
What is the point of studying a town in this way? For me, one can simply get 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 more attractive ____45____ just reading about it in a guidebook. Don’t you think it’s interesting?
( ) 36. A. write
B. study
C. tell
D. remember
( ) 37. A. If
B. Before
C. But
D. Until
( ) 38. A. ideas
B. opinions
C. feelings
D. questions
( ) 39. A. of
B. for
C. like
D. as
( ) 40. A. open
B. run
C. begin
D. move
( ) 41. A. old
B. normal
C. first
D. present
( ) 42. A. used
B. ought
C. had
D. happened
( ) 43. A. what
B. how
C. when
D. where
( ) 44. A. stops
B. appears
C. starts
D. continues
( ) 45. A. from
B. through
C. than
D. with