Additional exercises

Exercise 1. Insert articles where necessary.

1. Have you … grandfather? 2. There is … garden behind … house. 3. My brother – in – law is … writer and his wife is … doctor. 4. These are … difficult sentences. 5. I have … father, … mother and … little sister. 6. What’s … matter with you? 7. We are … students of … English faculty. 8. There came … knock at … door. 9. Benny is already in … bed. 10. Once there lived … captain brave. 11. … Doctor Smith is still at … hospital. 12. This isn’t … snow, this is … ice. 13. She has … velvet dress. 14. He is … good – looking young man of 20. 15. there are … beautiful flowers in … park.

Exercise 2. Insert articles where necessary.

1. Come to … blackboard and write … Exercise 12. 2. You have … spelling mistake in … word “ nursery”. 3. He is … old friend of mine. 4. There came … tap at … door and in another moment we saw … small girl enter … room. 5. He is … young artist and, I should say, rather talented. 6. He gave her … cigarette and lighted it. 7. I don’t feel … sympathy towards this man. 8. They are going to build … new house. 9. Are … rooms in your flat large or small. 10. … hours is … long time. In … hour you can read … newspaper, or write … letter. 11. What … beautiful music he is playing! 12. There is … curiosity in her look. 13. … Sandfords have … nice house. … house isn’t large but comfortable.

Exercise 3. Point out countable nouns by using an indefinite article.

1. He is … honesty itself. 2. … iron is … metal. 3. … knife is made of … metal. 4. I want … glass of … milk. 5. I like … jam on … piece of … bread. 6. We can write … letter in … ink or with … pencil. 7. I prefer … book of … poetry to stories of … adventure. 8. Can you give me … piece of … advice? 9. No news is … good news. 10. … kindness is … good quality.

Exercise 4. Insert articles where necessary.

1. He read … leading article slowly moving his lips over … words. 2. … I was … interpreter during … war. 3. We were shocked by … scene that followed. 4. We were met by … handsome young man. … man was … guide. 5. … street was empty. But suddenly she noticed … old woman on … opposite side of … street. 6. I want you to explain … incident we had this morning. 7. What … nice cheerful fellow he is! 8. … young woman of about 30 with … pleasant face rose to greet them when they entered … room.

Exercise 5. Insert articles where necessary.

1. What shall we have for … dessert today? 2. Let’s go to the canteen and have … bite. 3. … cucumbers and … tomatoes are vegetables. 4. I don’t like … mineral water, I prefer … cup of … tea. 5. Pass me … butter, please. 6. … water, … milk, tea and … coffee are drinks. 7. Is there anything to your taste on … menu? 8. Will you bring … knife from … kitchen? 9. Only after … second course he felt he was not hungry any longer. 10. Is … pudding to your taste? 11. They sat down to … table and began eating. 12. It was …. stewed – fruit and … ice – cream to follow . … ice – cream was rather melted.

Exercise 6. Insert articles where necessary.

1. Did you finish … school last year? 2. … examiner has already come.

3. What was your mark in … History? 4. He has made … great progress since … beginning of … term. 5. It is easy for … child to study … foreign language. 6. Where is … money? – It is on … table. 7. … boy is good at … Mathematics, … and … Chemistry, but his knowledge of … Literature and … English is rather poor. 8. What … fine weather we are having today! 9. At last he found … very interesting work. 10. … news he brought yesterday is very important. 11. What … clever advice! 12. … Phonetics is … branch of … Linguistics. 13. If you want to speak without … mistakes you must study … grammar hard. 14. What is … news? 15. … exercise 12 must be done in … written form. 16. Do you often work in … laboratory? 17. She attends … course of … lectures on … Russian Literature at … University. 18. I am not interested in … Chemistry. 19. Her subject is … History of … art. 20. It was clear she had … good news. 21. … advice is good but I cannot follow it.

Exercise 7. Insert articles where necessary.

… boy who had always lived in … country and who had never heard of … animals that live in other lands came one day to … town where there was … wild – beast show. … elephant attracted his attention, and he was particularly struck by … animal very much like … cat, but considerably larger, with … spotted skin and of … quiet and peaceful appearance. Near … cage, containing this beautiful animal, was another of much less attractive appearance with two humps on its back and with … long ugly neck. “What is … name of that pretty animal which you have placed next to this other ugly one?” asked … boy of … attendant. “That animal which you admire so much,” he replied, “is … leopard, and is one of … most dangerous of all wild beasts.”

Exercise 8. Insert articles where necessary.

Robert Robinson, my old acquaintance, had worked at … plant in Detroit. There … technical school was started for advertising reasons. …. newspapers had stressed fact that … school would be open to all … workers “regardless of colour”.

Robinson’s life before ha came to that school had been full of … hardships. His home was in one of … southern states where he had become … instrument – maker. … unemployment caught up with him, and he went to Detroit where … newspapers promised … employment. In Detroit … new period in his life began: … endless search for … work. He managed to enter … technical school. He was … only coloured student there. … newspapers made … most of it and even featured his photograph at … work. … papers, however, did not mention … fact that he was paid less than … white workers, and they kept quiet about … animosity that he was met with every morning.

Exercise 9. Insert articles where necessary. Pay attention to the with – phrases (adverbial and attributive).

1. …driver was … young fellow with … large red hands, … long legs and … orange hair. 2. They watched them go with … amused look. 3. She always met me with … smile. 4. He sat down to table with … great pleasure. 5. They have been working with … enthusiasm all this time. 6. It was … little house with … green windows and … brown door. 7. It was … cold winter with …sunny weather and … severe frosts. 8. The child looked at us with … surprise. 9. He was … young man with … pleasant open smile. 10. He spoke with … bitterness.

Exercise 10. Insert articles where necessary.

1. She nodded to me with … smile. 2. I shall do it with … pleasure. 3. He closed the door with … bang. 4. Everybody looked at her with … approval. 5. They were talking in … low voices. 6. Though he said it in … whisper I heard everything. 7. She was pulling her gloves on in … very slow way. 8. She went up the steps like … bird. 9. I was trembling like … leaf. 10. She said it in … matter – of – fact voice. 11. The young man smiled in … amazement. 12. She was weeping like … child.

13. With … deep sigh she rang the bell. 14. They were walking along … side by … side. 15. He worked from … morning till … night but earned very little. 16. She told me everything … word for … word. 17. The boys were all dirty from … head to … foot. 18. I always meet them walking … arm in … arm.

Exercise 11. Insert articles where necessary.

Mor knew that now was his chance to give Miss Carter … letter. He stood up. Miss Carter looked at him, … little surprised. Mor searched his pockets for … letter, which took him … moment or two. Then he held it forth and threw it quickly on to her knee. It fell to … floor and she picked it up with … puzzled look. As she did this, … motion caught … Mor’s eye and he looked over … Miss Carter’s head to see that Demoyte, was standing at … open door, had not observed him. She put … latter quickly into … handbag, which lay beside her, and looked up again at Mor.

Exercise 12. Insert articles where necessary.

1. He leaned on … back of … chair.2. He saw the boy on … roof of … house. 3. … neck of … bottle was very narrow. 4. It was … face of … old man. 5. … cover of … book was very bright.

1. He gave her … little bunch of … flowers. 2. I am looking for … box of … matches. 3. She joined … group of … students standing near by. 4. … whole pack of … cigarettes got wet and he couldn’t smoke. 5. The house was reached by … flight of … steps.

1. She asked for … glass of water. 2. We could see … drops of … dew on the grass. 3. What do you say to … bottle of … beer? – No beer, thanks, I prefer … glass of … mineral water or just … cup of … tea. 4. He took … jug of … milk standing on the kitchen - table and poured himself a little. 5. Here’s … piece of … chalk for you to write with.

Exercise 13. Insert articles where necessary.

1. … building Lammiter saw now was … garage (once it had been … stable and … coach – house). 2. … curiosity is … vivid emotion. 3. He looked like … man with several problems on his mind. 4. She went to … window for … air. … pain about her heart was dreadful. 5. It was not … answer he had expected. 6. He asked her if she could get him … clothes in which he could pass unnoticed. 7. … young man in … photograph seemed familiar to me. 8. She stared at him with … strange look that he could not interpret. 9. On … evening of St.Valentine’s day Boldwood sat down to … supper as usual. 10. Suddenly round … corner of … house … group of … men appeared. 11. “… boy is all right,” he said in … low voice. 12. … new information about them? Do you really have … new information? 13. When we returned to … town it was already … late autumn. 14. Oh, darling, it’s … Behrman’s masterpiece – he painted it there … night when … last leaf fell. 15. My brother has … little cottage … mile or so from here, and I have been spending … couple of … days with him.

Exercise 14. Insert articles where necessary.

Before … week had passed … whole neighbourhood knew that Mr. Dale was going to … Africa as … mechanic with … big scientific expedition. … expedition would have to cross to … America with all its machines on board … big liner, and to Algeria and from there it would cross … African continent to … Madagascar.

Anyone who has ever traveled on … New York underground railway during … rush hours can easily understand … following: … little man, pushed into … car, suddenly thought of … pickpockets and quite suddenly remembered that he had some money in his overcoat. He put his hand into his pocket and was somewhat shocked upon finding … fist of … fat fellow – passenger.

“Aha!” cried … latter, “I have caught you this time!”

“Let my hand go “, replied … little man.

“… Pickpocket,” cried … fat passenger.

“… scoundrel”, answered … little one.

Just then … tall man, who stood between them, glanced up from … paper he was reading.

“I’d like to get off here, if you ,… fellows, don’t taking your hands out of my pocket.”

Exercise 15. Insert articles where necessary.

1. There was at … dining – table … middle – aged man with … dark eyes and … sunburnt face, who had attracted … Martin’s attention. 2. Aileen knew almost nothing of … literature except … few authors. 3. I must have slept … long time, for when I got up and went out of … room I didn’t know whether it was … night or … morning. 4. We had … cold bacon for … lunch that day. There was not much of it. I took it to be … bacon we had not eaten for … breakfast. But on … clean dish it looked rather appetizing. 5. When … winter came Hans suffered … good deal from … cold and … hunger and often had to … bed without any supper but … few dried peas or some nuts.

Exercise 16. Translate into English.

1. Приходил почтальон? 2. Дом был построен два года назад. 3. Мое любимое дерево – дуб. 4. Мы опоздали на поезд и нам пришлось долго ждать на вокзале. 5. Серебряная луна светила на солнце. 6. Шекспир и Сервантес умерли в одном и том же году. 7. Мы получили телеграмму в самый день нашего отъезда. 8. Вы мне дали не тот адрес. 9. Некоторые из гостей ушли рано. 10. Он постучал не в ту дверь. 11. Попугай может подражать человеческой речи.