Between Virginia and Maryland on the Potomac River lie 1. ________ Washington D.C. It is about 220 miles in the south 2. ________ of New York City. The pleasantest and easiest ways to 3. ________ get there is by long-distance bus, or by the fast (125-mile-an-hour) train which spends a little more money than 4. ________ the bus journey and a little less money than flying. I could travel far more than 220 miles to see Washington. It’s not city that has 5. ________ been grown up accidently as most big cities have done. 6. ________ It was carefully planned for the nation’s capital by a 7. ________ Frenchman, Perril Enfant. The city was named 8. ________ George Washington, the much-loved, much-admired, much-respected first president of the United States. 9. ________ In 1791 he himself arranged to buy the land which it stands. 10. ________