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12/03/2020 374Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions from 35 to 42.
Washington was the first city in history to be created solely for the purpose of governance. Following the Revolution, members of Congress had hotly debated the question of a permanent home for themselves and for those departments – the Treasury, the Patent Office and so on – which even the sketchiest of central governments would feel obliged to establish. In 1790, largely in order to put an end to congressional bickering, George Washington was charged with selecting a site for the newly designated federal district. Not much to anyone’s surprise but to the disappointment of many he chose a tract of land on the banks of the Potomac River, a few miles upstream from his beloved plantation Mount Vernon.
The District of Columbia was taken in part from Virginia and in part from Maryland. At the time it was laid out, its hundred square miles consisted of gently rolling hills, some under cultivation and the rest heavily wooded, with a number of creeks and much swampy land along the Potomac. There is now a section of Washington that is commonly referred to as Foggy Bottom; that section bore the same nickname a hundred and eighty years ago.
Two ports cities, Alexandria and Georgetown, flourished within sight of the new capital and gave it access by ship to the most important cities of the infant nation – Charleston, Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York, Newport, Salem and Portsmouth – and also to the far-off ports of England and the Continent.
The author implies that Georgetown was important in the eighteen century because it _________.
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Tác giả đã ngụ ý rằng Georgetown rất quan trọng ở thế kỉ 18 vì nó _______.
A. kết nối giữa đặc khu liên bang này với đại dương
B. là hình mẫu để xây dựng một đặc khu liên bang mới
C. giúp bảo vệ bờ biển phía động khỏi quân xâm lược
D. là ngôi nhà của Bộ tài chính và Cơ quan cấp bằng sáng chế
Thông tin: gave it access by ship to the most important cities of the infant nation
Tạm dịch: tạo ra lối đi vào bằng tàu đến những thành phố quan trọng nhất của quốc gia non trẻ này
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