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EXERCISES A, AN, THE 1 Exercise: Put “ a, an, the or nothing” in the space blank.

1 Jason’s father bought him bicycle that he had wanted for his birthday

2 Statue of Liberty was a gift of friendship from France

to United States

3 Rita is studying English and math this semester

4 judge asked witness to tell truth

5 Please give me cup of coffee with cream

and sugar

6 big books on table are for my history class

7 No one in Spanish class knew correct answer to

Mrs Perez’s question

8 My car is fours years old and it still runs well

9 When you go to store, please buy bottle of

chocolate milk and dozen oranges

10 There are only few seats left for tonight’s musical

at university

11 John and Marcy went to school yesterday and then studied

in library before returning home

12 Lake Erie is one of five Great Lakes in North

America

13 On our trip to Spain, we crossed Atlantic Ocean

14 Mount Rushmore is the site of magnificent tribute

to four great American presidents

15 What did you eat for breakfast this morning?

16 Louie played basketball and baseball at Boy’s

Club this year

17 Rita plays violin and her sister plays guitar

18 While we were in Alaska, we saw Eskimo village

19 Phil can’t go to movies tonight because he has to write

essay

20 David attended Princeton University

21 Harry has been admitted to School of Medicine at

Midwestern university

22 Mel’s grandmother is in hospital, so we went to visit her last

night

23 political science class is taking trip to Soviet Union

in spring

24 Queen Elizabeth II is monarch of Great Britain

25 Declaration of Independence was drawn up in 1776

26 We need to get new phone

27 Alex, would you please answer phone?

28 I still keep wondering if I was doing right thing when I asked my

father for permission to leave school

29 We needed house to live in when we were in London

30 There are some things gentleman can’t do, Tom

31 You are only person whose opinion is of any value to me

in present regrettable circumstances

32 He told me he hated doctors

33 She had laughing eyes and most charming mouth

34 We talked about books Charles had just finished last volume of Roust

35 I went into room quietly and sat down opposite him without word

36 Mr March spent most of the night talking to Francis about buying house two of them were happy discussing plans and prices

37 I told myself that in wartime letters are lost

38 He is man to deal with customers’ complaints

39 She went to writing-desk and brought out sealed envelope

40 I’ll book sleeper on Geneva-Paris train for tomorrow night

41 .second bell sounded, and pupils began to walk into auditorium

42 They never read anything but local paper, and local papers report London affairs in one line

43 When he got back to hotel he took newspaper and considered at his leisure story on page two

44 He didn’t like idea of staying with them for other day

45 She wrote to her mother that things were going well and that she was not to be anxious

46 I had brought all my possessions in two old suitcases

47 For first term we shred same desk at the school because our names came next to each other in list

48 I haven’t chance of getting this job anyhow

49 Bill came out to meet them, wiping his hands on oily rag

50 He took crumpled telegram out of his pocket and flattened it out on his knee with great care and studied it

51 Mike waited in main hall while Henry escorted visitors

to lift

52 I don’t believe word of his story

53 He was on his feet as soon as curtain came down at end

of second act

54 He asked where I had picked up such word

55 She gave same answer as before

56 Of all papers I read this morning none interested me as much as this one

57 It was only birthday he had celebrated since he was child

58 He began to hum song It was old popular song

59 Then I heard voice asking if I was in

60 I ate three cakes; he pressed me to have fourth but I didn’t

61 .young man listened to conversation with amused smile

62 He heard popular song played by dance band

on radio

63 He began to climb stairs, which were dark and smelt of cats

64 I read until breakfast time novel I had borrowed from Marion

65 What he said reminded me of film I had seen.

66 The man offered me cigarette which I refused

67 questions Ann asked always seemed to be questions to which Paul knew the answers

68 Stanley knows woman in Milford who might be persuaded to come out once a week to clean house

69 She was not little girl he had known, but she was not

yet woman either

70 Her eyes were really like searchlights, picking out things that no one else saw

71 fact that he would have independent means made her feel relieved

72 Her father made her presents of books she did not read

73 And then he put forward amazing suggestion that she should turn down the offer and settle in London

74 I liked reading in garden, which was several steps below the level of the yard

75 I have impression that you don’t trust me

76 He went up to the third floor where assistants’ office was located

77 She lives in doll’s house at the back of the garden

78 They were promised four days’ rest

79 With one hand on young man’s shoulder, he went up the stairs

80 She is out visiting neighbor’s daughter

81 He sat on the floor stroking cat’s fur

82 After two months’ leave I was sent to Officers’ Training Camp in Dorset

83 In that mood I was unsuitable for attending parents’ meeting at the school

84 The scheme of studying in Teachers’ Training College is based upon compulsory and optional subjects

85 I was told by my friends not to believe girl’s tears

86 “Is that Mr Blair?” woman’s voice asked in the telephone

87 Then she leaped to one side as car’s brakes screamed behind her

88 She was drinking glass of orange juice

89 My friend is man of culture and wide reading

90 Tom sat down on edge of a log and looked at glassy surface of the lake

EXERCISES A, AN, THE 2 Exercise: Put “a, an, the or nothing” in the space blank.

1 deposit of 5 pounds is payable by anyone who wishes to

become reader of the library

2 The college ordinary course was planned to run for full academic

year of forty-seven weeks

3 faint purring of a motor woke Julia the next morning

4 “Come back in half an hour I’ll give you bottle of medicine,” said

the doctor

5 He was disturbed by sound of a shot

6 Willy leaned on back of the chair

7 I should like glass of water

8 My grandfather was man of force and intellect

9 From the kitchen came singing of a kettle on the stove

10 “I’ll have cup of tea with you”, said my mother

11 Heat up the water to temperature of 60oC

12 The wallpaper was dark blue with design of conventional flowers

13 This machinery drills holes to depth of two miles, or even more

14 The woman moved her chair slightly toward right side of the path

15 He sent me box of cigars

16 There were party of twelve people arriving at the hotel

17 .head of the department was a man named Coles

18 They had started from Amman early in the morning

with temperature of 98o in the shade

19 .girl from farm came once week to help

clean house

20 To them I must have appeared most undesirable visitor

21 He sat down at piano and played piece that he had

played in the morning

22 “What does penniless person do in case like this?”

Marion said

23 It’s not story I could tell anyone else

24 car drove up to front of movie theatre

They got out Jack looked up at poster in front

of theatre .poster advertised picture

called “The Stolen Midnight.”

25 For past hundred years parties at their house had

been held according to same pattern

26 They walked without speaking across lawn

27 I know man who will lend me car

28 His daughter is married to man who lives by his pen

29 He merely said: “Ah, that’s question nobody can answer, lad.”

30 Her people were too poor to provide her with books

and proper clothes

31 letter is supposed to make you see things in a

different light

32 He gave suspicious look to box I carried

33 .breeze blew some dead leaves onto terrace

34 Keeping in shadow of house, he crept

to back door

35 He was writing note for his wife when outer door swung open, and short man of thirty came in

36 Harvest was over leaves were red and golden on trees

37 He took cigar from his mouth and blew away long trail

of smoke

38 gates of sports ground stood open, and we walked along road, under chestnut trees

39 He went to corner of room and gazed

at bookshelf

40 I thought that English was language he had learnt from books

41 There’s hardly man among us who knows mountain

as you do

42 Williams stood in middle of room, with expression of child from whom sweet has been taken

43 Finally she stopped him in front of .small picture In silence and for

a long time they stood looking at picture It was very good picture

44 One winter afternoon she had been buying something in little antique shop in Curson Street It was shop she liked

And man who kept shop was fond of serving her

45 It is portrait of friend I told you about the other day

46 She wishes to speak to him about important message she had received from London

47 All presents that he had given her were in their usual places

48 They turned off road into drive that would between tall trees

49 He looked at figure that was standing on upper step

50 I don’t know any of people living in house next door

51 We sat side by side smoking and thinking

52 It was sort of occasion when one wants to help but doesn’t know how

53 He didn’t want to walk home with any of other fellows

54 Marion, like most of girls in group, came from lower middle class family

55 They cleaned house from top to bottom

56 What kind of place are your friends living in?

57 She would know names of nearly all of people who lived there

58 While they went from room to room, Blair explained purpose of his visit

59 Janine was Finn, with extraordinary blue eyes

60 She was married to man called Bronson He was planter He was manager of estate

up river

61 Outside in street, he called for taxi at

top of his voice, and set off in chase of it like young man

62 You can’t treat Charles like child He is grown man

63 pleasantest man in office was big

ex-paratrooper named John Duncan He was six feet tall, had face

of farmer, and seemed to like everybody and everything

64 He felt gentle touch of Betty’s hand on his shoulder

65 Her father had started life as errand boy, then

became draper’s assistant and was now owner

of prosperous little business

66 Opposite window stood full-length painting of Charles

as small boy

67

68 people use plants in many different ways Plants

supply us with oxygen They are a source of lifesaving medicines We

use plant products to build houses and to make paper

and textiles

69 When you look at sandy shore, it might seem practically empty

of animals This appearance is deceptive, however

Beneath surface, the sand is full of life It is teeming

with crabs, shrimp, worms, snails, and

other kinds of marine animals

70 Our children enjoyed going to the beach yesterday When they dug

in sand, they found various kinds of animals Susie

found crab, and so did Johnny crab Johnny found pinched

him, which made him cry But he had good time at beach

anyway

71 The biggest bird in the world is the ostrich It eats just about anything it can

reach, including stones, glass, and keys It can kill

person with one kick

72 Do you ever gaze into space and wonder if other life forms

exist in universe?

73 most mirrors are made from glass to which thin

layer of silver or aluminum has been applied

74 In recent newspaper article, I read about Australian swimmer

who was saved from shark by group of dolphins

When shark attacked swimmer, dolphins chased it away

They saved swimmer’s life

75 I heard on the radio that there is evidence that dolphins

suffer in cavity Dolphins that are free in nature live around 40 years

Captive dolphins live average of 12 years It is believed that some

captive dolphins commit suicide

76 phonograph records have become old-fashioned They have been

supplanted by compact discs, which are commonly referred to as CDs

77 Look There’s fly walking on ceiling It’s upside down Do

you suppose fly was flying right side up and flipped over at the last

second, or was it flying upside down when it landed on ceiling?

78 Last week I went to exhibition of paintings at

Tate Gallery in London I’m not really great art lover but I’d

read good reviews of exhibition and I was keen to see it

When I arrived, there were already people waiting outside for doors to open I joined queue and in end doors opened and we went inside to see show

Now, I must be honest and admit that many of paintings disappointed me Although I spent time looking carefully

at each one, I had difficulty in understanding what artist was getting at Finally, as I was looking rather stupidly at one of paintings and trying to decide if it was right way up

or not, old gentleman came up behind me and started to explain whole thing to me He kindly answered all of my questions and we talked for over hour Then he said he had

appointment and had to go and now I found that all paintings seemed really beautiful

It was only as I was leaving gallery that I found out who old man was – his self-portrait was on posters advertising exhibition!