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1. WHY DOES THE STUDENT GO TO SEE THE OFFICE WORKER? 
2. WHY DOES THE OFFICE WORKER SUGGEST THAT THE STUDENT 
TALK TO HIS PROFESSORS? 
3. WHAT IS STATED ABOUT THE GRADE REPORT THE STUDENT 
RECEIVED? 
4. ACCORDING TO THE OFFICE WORKER, WHAT CAUSED
THE STUDENT’S PROBLEM?
 
5. LISTEN AGAIN TO PART OF THE CONVERSATION. THEN ANSWER 
THE QUESTION.
 (Woman)
Yes, in a university of this size it is not unusual to get duplicate names, 
but you’re Anthony B. Taylor, and the other is Anthony M. Taylor. 
WHY DOES THE OFFICE WORKER SAY THIS? 
 (Woman)
Yes, in a university of this size it is not unusual to get duplicate names. 
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Questions 6 through 11. 
Listen to a lecture in a government class. 
(Professor)
Today, we’ll be talking about the city of Washington, D.C. The original 
name of the city was Washington City; it was, of course, named after the 
first president of the United States, George Washington. In later years, 
the name was changed to the District of Columbia. Today it’s most 
commonly called Washington, D.C., where D.C. is the abbreviated form 
of District of Columbia. 
First of all, let me give you a little background about this rather unique 
city. Washington, D.C. is unusual because there had never been a city 
that was created for the sole purpose of housing a government and in the 
United States, it’s the only city that is not part of any state.
Now, let’s look at a map of Washington, D.C. as we discuss the first 
point. In the early years of the country, the founding fathers believed that 
the capital of the United States should not be part of any state. Originally 
the capital of the U.S. was in Philadelphia, but uh for reasons that I’m not 
going to go into right now, it had to be moved. At that time, politicians 
from the northern states wanted the capital to be in New York City, but 
politicians from the southern states, well, they didn’t like this idea 
because they felt that it was too cold in the winter, and too far from their 
home states. Eventually a compromise was reached between the 

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northern and southern politicians and when a location was finally agreed 
on for the capital city, two states, Maryland and Virginia, were asked to 
give up land for it. Now you can see on the map that the District of 
Columbia was originally a square, with the Potomac River cutting through 
the square. The area to the northeast of the Potomac originally belonged 
to the state of Maryland, and the area to the southwest of the Potomac 
originally belonged to the state of Virginia. Now in the middle of the 
nineteenth century, the portion of the square that had previously 
belonged to Virginia, the portion to the southwest of the Potomac, was 
returned to the state of Virginia. Today, the District of Columbia is no 
longer a square. Instead, the District of Columbia is the portion of the 
square to the northeast of the Potomac. 
George Washington commissioned the French engineer Pierre Charles 
L’Enfant to design the city. L’Enfant came up with a street plan with 
diagonal streets radiating from the capitol building at the center; also, 
…um… the capitol building was situated on the highest point of land in 
the city, and L’Enfant superimposed a grid of streets running north to 
south, and east to west. The construction of Washington, D.C. began in 
1791, but the construction of many government buildings was not 
finished when the government officially moved there from Philadelphia in 
1799. 
Another surprising fact is that for most of its history, Washington, D.C. 
was not a self-governing city. When the city was first established, it was 
decided that its government would be appointed by the president of the 
United States; the citizens of Washington, D.C. would not elect their own 
city government. In addition, the citizens of Washington, D.C. for quite 
some time had no representation in Congress, and they were ineligible to 
vote for the president of the United States. The citizens of Washington, 
D.C. were given the right to vote for their government only relatively 
recently. The Twenty-third Amendment to the Constitution gave the 
people of Washington, D.C. the right to participate in presidential 
elections. Citizens of Washington, D.C. were first eligible to vote for the 
president of the United States in the 1964 election; however they didn’t 
have a representative in Congress until 1970. Finally in 1973 Congress 
passed the District of Columbia Home Rule Act, which created a city 
government for Washington, D.C. with direct elections of the mayor and 
the city council.