[单项选择]Questions 41 to 44 are based on the following passage: Washington D.C. 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 permanenthome for themselves and for departments, such as the Treasury, the Patent Office, and so on, whicheven the sketchiest of centralgovernment would feel obliged to establish. In 1790, largely in order to put an end to congressionalbickering, George Washington was charged with selecting a site for the newly designated federaldistrict. Not much to anyone’s surprise but to the disappointment of many, he chose a tract of landon the banks of the Potomac River,a few miles upstream from his beloved plantation, MountVernon. The District of Columbia was taken in part from Virginia and in part from Maryland. At the timeit was laid out, its hundred square miles consisted of gently rolling hills, some under cultivation andthe rest heavily wooded, with a number
A. George Washington’s choice pleased almost everyone
B. Mount Vernon was not chosen because it was too close to the river
C. Congress was unable to agree on a location
D. Congress did not believe that a home for the federal government was necessary

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