Between Virginia and Maryland on the Potomac River lie  

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. ________