41 С.А.Макаров. Упражнения по теме «Артикль» Тверь, 2005
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A man ought to read just as inclination leads him; for what he reads as a task will do him little good. S. Johnson |
Ex. 1. Use correct articles with nouns. Translate into Russian.
… rabbit, … vegetable-eating land animal, is generally peaceable if it is left undisturbed.
They elected me … president by a show of hands.
… Prime Minister asked me if he was … good prime minister.
… glass I drink from is not large, but at least it is my own.
Three is … cardinal number that is one more than two.
… very pale moon rose slowly. So did … stranger as they approached … bench.
It is amazing what little harm doctors do when one considers all … opportunity they have. (Mark Twain)
It is truly written that … man has five times as many fingers as ears, but only twice as many ears as noses. (Don Geddis)
Horses look remarkably healthy. That’s because they don’t sit up all … night playing … cards and drinking … whisky.
Basically … word mankind is made up of two separate words, mank and ind. What do these words mean? Nobody knows and that is why … mankind is … mystery. (Jack Hand)
I lent … friend of mine … thousand dollars for plastic surgery and now I don’t know what he looks like.
Under … capitalism … man exploits … man. Under … communism it’s just … opposite. (J.K. Galbraith)
I prefer … cinema to … theatre; … television to … cinema; and … radio to … television.
Have you ever heard … Bach concerto?
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest is … Milos Forman film.
… tiger is in … danger of becoming extinct.
Ex. 2. Use correct articles. Translate into Russian.
… real art of conversation is not only to say … right thing at … right place but to leave unsaid … wrong thing at the tempting moment. (Dorothy Neville)
I wish it would dawn upon … engineers that, in order to be … engineer, it is not enough to be … engineer. (Jose Ortega y Gasset)
Better than … thousand days of … diligent study is one day with … great teacher. (Japanese proverb)
If you are going through … hell, keep going. (Sir Winston Churchill)
Use … telephone and spare yourself a visit.
… wastebasket is … writer’s best friend. (Isaac Bashevis Singer, writer)
The fall in … value of … pound will enable us to export more goods.
He is not much of … swimmer, but he brushes his teeth every day.
I go to … theatre as seldom as I can.
She looked like something from … circus.
He is a listener by … trade.
He’s the dirtiest person I know, and he has … nerve to tell my shoes need cleaning.
Where is … sense in going by boat when the plane costs no more and is quicker.
… outer space seems to be infinite.
… most people who are as attractive, witty and intelligent as I am are usually conceited.
It’s no good to talk about your troubles; … eighty per cent of the people who hear them don’t care and the other twenty per cent are glad you’re having trouble.
I don’t answer … telephone because I have this feeling there is going to be someone on … other end.
Just … other day in … Underground I enjoyed … pleasure of offering my seat to three ladies. (G.K. Chestertone)
… botany is … art of insulting … flowers in … Latin and … Greek.
The hardest person to awaken is … one already awake. (Tagalog saying)
A teacher affects … eternity, he can never tell where his influence stops. (Henry Adams)
Before you visit Myanmar you ought to learn … language.
… teak is a type of … wood.
Ex. 3. Use correct articles with names of substances. Translate into Russian.
His explanation of where he got the money from doesn’t hold … water.
… iron rusts from disuse, … stagnant water loses its purity, and in … cold weather becomes frozen, even so does … inaction sap the vigor of the mind. (Leonardo Da Vinci)
… coffee just isn’t my cup of … tea.
We didn’t starve but nobody ate … chicken unless we were sick or … chicken was.
… alkali forms a chemical salt when combined with … acid.
… mocha [´mokә] is a type of … fine coffee.
… hydrogen is … gas that is … simple substance, without … colour or smell, is lighter than … air, and burns very easily.
… carbon dioxide is produced when animals breathe out, when … carbon is burned in … air, or when animal or vegetable matter decays.
Ex. 4. Use correct articles with abstract nouns. Translate into good Russian.
1. … truth is stranger than … fiction.
2. Our English teacher made sure that we were well grounded in … basic grammar.
3. Having pet alligators is … idiosyncrasy.
4. All our students receive … good grounding in … English grammar.
5. It is better to err on the side of … caution.
6. … collateral aim of … government’s industrial strategy is to increase … employment.
7. I have … horrible feeling we’re going to fail the exam.
8. He had half … mind to go and ask the Gaffer who the inquirer was. But he thought better (or worse) of it, and turned and walked quickly back.
9. They went in … single file along hedgerows and the borders of coppices, and … night fell dark about them.
10. It’s … dangerous business going out of your door.
11. … sudden unreasoning fear of discovery laid hold of Frodo.
12. You must keep your secret for … present, if you want to be mysterious.
13. ‘Well, Mr Frodo,’ Maggot went on, ‘I’m glad that you’ve had … sense to come back to Buckland.
14. … only thing to do is to go off in … quite unexpected direction.
15. As … matter of fact he came out on … right side in … end.
16. … concealment was no longer possible, and they could only hope that no enemy or spy was observing them.
17. It’s not easy when you’ve spent the rest of your life trying to do … opposite.
18. All we ever do nowadays is … talk.
19. … poetry is … art of uniting … pleasure with … truth.
20. If … parsimony could have made a man rich, Sir Pitt Crawley might have become very wealthy. (W. Thackeray)
21. … loyal wife is … one who sticks with her husband through all … troubles he wouldn’t have made if he hadn’t married her.
22. … truth is rarely pure, and never simple. (O. Wilde)
23. Speak … truth, then leave quickly. (Serb proverb)
24. … logic is the first thing you have to get rid of.
25. … responsibility for … continual prevalence of … ignorance lies not with the teacher but with those taught.
26. Australia faces … grey future.
27. … time slips through our fingers like water. We gape in … astonishment to see how little is left.
28. I get into … trouble and get out again.
29. Mr Brown was busy having … nervous breakdown.
30. She is … zero, but terrific looking.
31. Sometimes the road less traveled is less traveled for … reason.
32. In ... interior darkness he seems a suit of clothes hung from the broad knob of his face.
33. … willing contemplation of … vice is … vice. (Arabic proverb)
34. There is no fire like … passion, there is no shark like … hatred, there is no snare like … folly, there is no torrent like … greed. (Buddha)
35. Enjoy … silence!
36. Sometimes I think the surest sign that … intelligent life exists elsewhere in … universe is that none of it has tried to contact us. (Bill Watterson)
37. … shortest distance between … two truths is … lie.
38. … smile that you send out returns to you. (Indian proverb)
39. … language is not neutral. It is merely … vehicle which carries ideas. It is itself … shaper of ideas. (Dale Spender)
40. … sounds were … voices and … voices were … words and … words were thoughts.
Ex. 5. Use correct articles with abstract nouns. Translate into good Russian.
1. We found it hard to choose a carpet: they were all much of … muchness.
2. … tact is … ability to describe others as they see each themselves. (A. Lincoln)
3. … time does not seem to pass here: it just is. A remarkable place altogether.
4. … human mind is more … universe than … universe itself.
5. … procrastination is … art of keeping up with yesterday.
6. …simplicity doesn’t mean to live in … misery and … poverty. You have what you need, and you don’t want to have what you don’t need. (Charan Singh, mystic)
7. That is to say, the publishers offer … reader a stream of undoctored records that speak … volumes both of … subconscious and the writing method of the great writer of … absurd.
8. If you put your hand on … working car engine, you will feel vibrations of … 1Hz to 100Hz frequency.
9. … social problems in … modern society are mounting.
10. There’s going to be … constant speculation about the date of the election.
11. The whole policy has proved … failure and should be abandoned.
12. I feel … pity rather than … anger to these people.
13. I think that’s … great pity after all she’s done.
14. This is the most exciting period in … human history.
15. It’s … common knowledge among politicians that an election will be called soon.
16. I gave her some chocolate as … small thank you.
17. I write with … beautiful simplicity of … style.
18. I’m looking for … trouble in any shape or form.
19. If you play with dangerous chemicals like that you’re just asking for … trouble.
20. We must thank you for taking … trouble to cook.
21. ... trouble with me is that I didn’t learn grammar.
22. She leads … trouble-free existence
23. The lesson was going at … very slow pace.
24. Venice has … timeless beauty.
25. I have been learning … grammar non-stop for 18 hours.
26. … excessive study can rapidly reduce … mental powers too.
27. The speech was … embarrassment to listen to.
28. Getting enough sleep makes … difference in how one feels and looks.
29. The hypothesis is only … crude approximation to … reality.
30. What … atrocious dinner!
31. Flies and stinging insects were giving us … bad time.
32. A thing of beauty is … joy forever. (Keats)
33. When another person departs from the truth, it is … lie; when we do, it is … imagination.
34. … common sense is not so common. (Voltaire)
35. It is these things that cause me concern: … failure to cultivate virtue, … failure to go more deeply into what I have learned, … inability, when I am told what is right, to move to where it is, and … inability to reform myself when I have defects. (Confucius)
36. To be fond of something is better than merely to know it, and to find … joy in it is better than merely to be fond of it. (Confucius)
37. When I have pointed out one corner of a square to anyone and he does not come back with … other three, I will not point it out to him … second time.
38. Philosophers before Kant had … tremendous advantage over philosophers after Kant in that they didn’t have to waste years studying Kant. (Bertrand Russel)
39. People should work for … benefit of … society.
40. … healthy society can tolerate a lot of criticism.
Ex. 6. Use correct articles with abstract nouns. Translate into good Russian.
That painted portrait is … perfect likeness of her.
The book was … immense success.
The project was … utter failure.
That pianist has … considerable talent.
I have … musical talent.
It takes … practice to learn how to play … violin.
… history does not repeat itself, … historians merely repeat each other.
Always acknowledge … fault frankly. This will throw those in … authority off their guard and give you … opportunity to commit more.
Helen and Mary sat in the kitchen having … good gossip about their friends.
… Mary’s singing is … joy to listen to.
The readers were filled with … joy.
It was such … pleasure to be present at the lesson.
Mr Smith’s guinea pig is … little horror.
I hope they’ll have … sense to shut the windows before they leave.
It makes … sense to buy a large packet because it works out cheaper in … end.
The helicopter hovering overhead added to … sense of urgency.
These changes strike at the heart of … British society.
There’s … danger that we will end up blaming ourselves for … society’s problems.
Mr Drunkenstein has … limited knowledge of French.
The details of the scandal are now … common knowledge.
Mr Frühstück started to photograph the documents, safe in … knowledge that he wouldn’t be disturbed at least an hour.
Keeping warm in the winter is … major worry for many students.
In … hot weather shops do … roaring trade in cold drinks and ice creams.
… drama is … life with the dull bits cut out. (Alfred Hitchcock)
I prefer … Dutch cheese to … modern art
It’s … sheer stupidity.
The king had … absolute power over his subjects.
His success was to … sheer determination.
It was … sheer coincidence that we met at the German lesson.
What’s your idea of … perfect happiness?
I have … absolute faith in her judgment.
… real knowledge is to know the extent of one’s ignorance. (Confucius)
She looked at me in … genuine surprise.
Mr Gook enjoys … eighteenth-century art.
The author seems to pretend that … Russian culture ended in 1917, and after a brief period of inexorable decline, there appeared … void.
We were hard put to find … replacement for our secretary.
These worn tyres are badly in need of … replacement.
I dislike … idle talk.
There was … loud knock at the door.
In … heavy frost one tends to think in very short thoughts.
Ex. 7. Use correct articles. Translate into Russian.
The day’s march promised to be … warm and tiring work.
I’ve just played … work by an unknown Portuguese composer.
One of the ground rules of … social behaviour is to avoid offending … people.
Long tales are thirsty. And long listening is … hungry work.
At first they made … fair progress, but as they went on, their passage became slower and more dangerous.
There is … strong evidence that … Bush administration is gearing up for the next stage of the war against … terrorism.
Don’t accept your dog’s admiration as … conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.
We must believe in … luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don’t like. (Jean Cocteau)
You can’t trust … English weather.
I have … permission to tell you.
It’s not known how many of them have been given … permission to leave.
Why is Friday the thirteenth so widely regarded as a day that brings … bad luck?
She is making … good progress with her German.
It’s … poor fun if we have … full information.
Seek … professional advice is what we should do.
They are making … good progress but still have a fair way to go.
Mr Glück is in … very good health.
Mr Greengoose has had … good education.
Ex. 8. Use correct articles. Translate into Russian.
At Rector’s, Drouet had met Mr. G.W. Hurstwood, … manager of Fitzgerald and Moy’s. (Dreiser)
I may not be elected … governor again. (Dreiser)
I’m made … president of the company. (Leacock)
Gerald du Maurier, … very good director, told me himself that he took no interest in directing a play that he could not partly rewrite. (Maugham)
Am I speaking to … Chairman?
… Pharaoh Rameses II is well known to all the students.
She got a job as … personal secretary to … company chairman.
… Britain’s ambassador to Brazil was expected at the football match.
If … prime minister loses support in … House of … Commons, they are expected to resign, as Margaret Thatcher did in 1990.
… Queen is … chief of the armed forces by right.
In the Second World war Eisenhower was … commander-in-chief of the Allied armed forces.
… Prime Minister wore carroty shoes and yellow trousers.
… Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin, … Russian Foreign Ministry, and I have sent letters to the investigation agencies confirming that the whole scheme was in effect pursuant to a decision by … then government of … Viktor Chernomyrdin, and that Russia today has no complaints against our partners and the intermediary firm.
Ex. 9. Use correct articles. Translate into Russian.
On … Groundhog Day, according to … old stories, … groundhog comes out of its hole for the first time since … winter began.
It’s … beautiful morning. – What’s beautiful about it?
It was … pale morning: in the East, behind long clouds like lines of solid wool stained red at the edges, lay glimmering deeps of yellow.
The road lay quiet under the long shadows of … early evening.
I rode away at … dawn; and I came at long last to the dwelling of Saruman. (J.R.R. Tolkien)
… day leaped into the sky.
At … twilight, the air was full of velvet, swooping bats. (Clark)
… bright sunlight streamed through the windows of the delightful room. (Mansfield)
Towards … evening it grew colder.
Somewhere it was … afternoon.
Ex. 10. Correct the following statements. Use articles where necessary.
E.g. The students learned grammar from morning till night. – I am sorry to contradict you, but the students learned grammar from night till morning.
1. It’s usually warmer in the university at night than during the day.
2. The students don’t go to the university until midday.
3. Our classes are over before noon.
4. It’s pleasant to have breakfast in the canteen at dawn.
5. I usually spend the morning in the theatre.
6. I only come along here on Monday morning.
7. We never speak English during the summer.
8. Towards evening I always grow sulky.
9. I’ll stay here through the winter.
10. It’s spooky in the Dean’s Office after midnight.
Ex. 11. Use correct articles. Translate into Russian.
I got the news from Mrs Firestone at … first hand.
At … first sight the problem seems easy.
I’ll come round to collect it … first thing tomorrow.
John took … first place in the competition.
… first prize in the raffle is a holiday for two in the village Gadyukino.
Do you know anything about … first aid?
You’ve gotten to … first base if you’ve landed an interview. (AmE; =first stage of success in an attempt to achieve something)
There’s a lot more space in … first class.
I never travel … first class.
He has gone to China to study conditions there at … first hand.
That was … tough first half for Wales. (=the first period of a football match)
“Ich bin” is … first person present singular of the verb “sein”.
If you sell your house, will you let me have … first refusal on it? (BrE; the right to decide whether to buy something before it is offered to other people)
That’s … second time you’ve asked me that.
Our personal wishes take … second place to the needs of the government.
I’m rich enough to own … second kettle.
Bill only finished in … second place in the race.
He came … poor second. (=a long way behind the first person)
As a footballer I am … second to none.
Here is … second helping of potatoes!
I only play … second fiddle.
If you go to Funafuti you’ll probably need … second pair of shoes.
If you have … second chance don’t hold back.
The shop didn’t have quite what we wanted so we had to settle for … second best. (=not as good as the best)
England came off … second best in the big football match. (=were defeated)
It’s … second nature for me to be late for classes, even though I’m a bright student.
On … second thought I think I will eat some more porridge.
I seem to think I am … second Napoleon.
The police gave the suspect … third degree. (=hard questioning)
… time is sometimes called … fourth dimension.
It was … most amazing coincidence.
Mary is … most unusual person.
Ex. 12. Use correct articles with substantivized adjectives. Translate into Russian.
… English eat millions of sandwiches every day.
… absent are always in … wrong.
A committee is a group of … unfit, appointed by … unwilling to do … unnecessary.
O dark, dark, dark. They all go into … dark.
The vacant interstellar spaces, … vacant into … vacant. (Eliot)
He is more Irish than … Irish.
You can tell those who are above … average about … best, but not those who are below … average. (Confucius)
He who would distinguish … true from … false must have an adequate idea of what is true and false. (Spinoza)
I always expect … unexpected.
… English take … dozen monosyllabic words in their jaws, chew them, crunch them and spit them out again and call that speaking (Heinrich Heine)
But when … great fall, … less must lead.
… beautiful is not always the same as … good.
Ex. 13. Use correct articles in the combinations with the possessive case. Translate into Russian.
By no means all Hobbits were lettered, but those who were wrote constantly to all their friends (and a selection of their relations) who lived further off than … afternoon’s walk.
It’s been … hard day’s night.
He told them … elephant’s big.
Sometimes I think that … knowledge – when it is … knowledge for … knowledge’s sake, anyway is the worst of all.
Not only do the World Cup organizers have to keep … England’s and … Holland’s supporters apart, they will also have to cope with … Ireland’s peaceful “green army”, which could number 20,000.
She had something of … horse’s dreadful beauty.
It’s … student’s first idiom.
In my book you’re … nickel’s worth of nothing.
I want … ten years’ supply for whisky.
If a car is dirty, it’s … woman’s.
I acquired … baker’s dozen of small collapsible bicycles.
Have you ever seen … Prokofyev’s ballet Cinderella?
… old wives’ tale is a traditional idea which is believed by many people but is usually incorrect.
… Miss Lawson’s story is … Miss Lawson’s story. Just that.
If you do that you will open … Pandorra’s box.
The snail was moving at … snail’s pace.
The camera aboard … NASA’s Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) spacecraft currently orbiting … red planet photographed … Earth, … moon and … Jupiter, as seen in the evening sky of … Mars, at 9 a.m. EDT, May 8, 2003.
All … above are asked to attend … tomorrow’s meeting.
The day when Petrovich finally brought the greatcoat, it’s hard to say with any exactitude what day it was, but it was probably the most memorable day in … Akaky Akakievich’s life. (Gogol)
Ex. 14. Use correct articles in set expressions. Be sure to translate into Russian.
There was too much of that Mr Underhill to go vanishing into … thin air; or into … thick air, as is more likely in this room.
All in … good time. You are not supposed to talk or worry about anything today.
Is the flight from Funafuti running on … time?
There is more about you than meets … eye.
She and I see … eye to … eye on this matter.
The thief had to stay on … run to keep from being caught by the police.
Completing your education may not seem important to you now, but in … long run, you will be glad you did.
Give the actor … big hand!
Please keep my phone number at … hand in case you need to call me.
Some new information has come to … light about … last week’s match.
We always see things in … different light.
The deal was completely open and above … board.
After the passengers were all on … board, the train left the station.
When the conversation turns to chemistry he’s on … familiar ground.
My business hasn’t got off … ground yet.
There was … silence, for suddenly the dark and unknown forest, so near at … hand, made itself as a great brooding presence, full of secret purpose. (J.R.R. Tolkien)
Our team took … first place.
Anyone chancing on Nevsky Prospekt will be dazzled by the infinite variety of hats, dresses, and scarves, light and colourful, which will sometimes retain the affections of their wearers for two whole days on … end. (N.V. Gogol)
Ex. 15. Use correct articles with proper names. Translate into Russian.
… Madras is … city and port in … Southeastern India, … capital of … Tamil Nadu state.
… Chunnel is a popular name for … Channel Tunnel.
… Nevsky Prospekt is … St Petersburg’s busiest thoroughfare.
… K2, also … Mount Godwin Austin, is … second highest mountain in the world after … Mount Everest, on the border between … Kashmir and China.
… Gondwanaland was the large mass of land that existed before it broke up to form … Antarctica, Australia, Africa, … South America and India.
But a man who takes … control of a state whether it be for good or evil, … Napoleon or … Genghis Khan, … Caesar or … Charlemagne, these are remembered and remembered as great.
At the time of … Renaissance there was no division separating … art from … science.
… Peak District is popular for climbing, walking and pot holing.
… Potomac separates … Maryland and Washington DC from … Virginia and … West Virginia.
The caves went on being occupied during … Mesolithic period, which dated from 9,000 to 4,500 BC.
Throwing the hammer here is … champion William Anderson, who, when he’s not winning prizes, is … hard working shepherd in … Highlands.
… Pleiades are a group of stars in … constellation Taurus.
… Transkey is … homeland in … SE South Africa bordering on … Lesotho [lə’su:tu:] to the North and … Indian Ocean to … Southeast.
… Sinn Fein wishes … Northern Ireland to become … part of … Republic of Ireland.
The nearest star to the sun is … Proxima Centauri, which is 33,923,310,000,000 km from … earth.
We are sailing on … QE2.
I was swimming in the swimming pool, the size of … Lake Huron, only less dirty.
… Reformation was both an extension of … Renaissance and a reaction from it.
… Chairman Mao introduced … Great Leap Forward in 1958 and … Cultural Revolution (1966-69), in … 1970s he was influenced by his wife Jiang Qing and … Gang of Four.
… Inkatha Freedom Party is … black South African nationalist movement representing the Zulu people and led by … Chief Buthulezi.
… Marie Celeste was found in … Atlantic Ocean in 1872 with no one on it; the ship was undamaged, and a table was prepared for a meal. No one knows why … sailors left the ship, or what happened to them.
… main New York Public Library is on … Fifth Avenue between … 40th Street and … 42nd Street.
A stock market crash brought … financial ruin to thousands and started … Great Depression.
… Basque language (in Basque, euskara) is spoken by about 660,000 people (1991 census) at the western end of … Pyrenees, along … Bay of Biscay.
… Chicago Tribune is thought of as the voice of the people of … Middle West.
I can just remember … Titanic. (Galsworthy)
Mr Edward Woodward was in … West Indies two years and seven in … Cape Verde.
The President’s attempt to get … Congress to vote in the new bill did not go down well on … Capitol Hill.
… Shannon Airport is used for transatlantic flights.
… Carthage was in … Northern Africa, near the modern city of Tunis.
… Chesapeake Bay is important for trade and shipping.
… Brittany is … peninsula between … Bay of Biscay and … English Channel.
The satellite was launched from … French Guiana.
… Sumer was the southern part of … ancient Mesopotamia, where one of … world’s oldest civilizations lived.
On … clear, moonless night … shimmering light of … Milky Way glows especially bright toward … constellation Sagittarius.
… Chickamauga [¸tſikə’mo:gə] is a creek flowing from …northwestern Georgia into … Tennessee River.
Ex. 16. Use correct articles with proper names. Translate into Russian.
… Britain’s history as … seafaring nation is brought vividly to … life in … National Maritime Museum, which includes two galleries devoted to … Lord Nelson, one of … Britain’s greatest admirals.
One of the city’s favourite landmarks, … Madame Tussaud’s famous waxworks display has been going strong since 1835, with old favourites such as … Chamber of Horrors, and new attractions such as … time-ride through London.
… Trafalgar Square is the setting for one of … London’s best loved landmarks, … Nelson’s Column, which stands over 184ft (55m).
Another of … London’s great spectacles is provided on state occasions, when the queen and her mounted guard process down … Mall – the wide avenue which leads from … Buckingham Palace – along the north side of … St James’s Park and into … Trafalgar Square.
Five miles below … Tower Bridge ... Thames leads gracefully to … Greenwich on the south shore, and many visitors choose to arrive in style by … riverboat.
… Emperor Claudius had intended that Colchester, in … Essex, should be … capital of … Roman Britain, and that is where … Roman invasion force headed in AD 43 after landing near the site of … today’s Richborough, in … Kent.
With … Queen Victoria’s accession to … throne, the focus moved firmly to … Buckingham Palace, where the Royal Family still live today – ‘above the shop’, as … Prince Philip remarked, for most of the 600 rooms are offices for staff.
Although the tower is often called … Big Ben, the name actually applies to the huge bell inside the clock itself.
Military units in … Roman Empire appear to have run their own regimental breweries, according to new evidence from archaeological excavations near … Hadrian’s Wall.
Ex. 17. Translate into English using correct articles.
Была обыкновенная погода, шёл первый день бессмысленного года.
Учитель сказал, что я совсем не знаю математики, и поставил мне в дневник какую-то цифру.
Тяжёлый град, и снег и мокрый гной
Пронизывает воздух непроглядный,
Земля смердит под жидкой пеленой. (Данте)
Спорт – трата времени на трату сил. (М. Цветаева)
Чтобы лечиться в Российской Федерации необходимо иметь железное здоровье.
И рядом снова оказалась МЫСЛЬ, та самая огромная белая масса, от которой мне сделалось тогда мерзко – четыре года она мне не являлась. (Ж.-П. Сартр)
Мне приоткрылась истинная природа настоящего: оно – это то, что существует, а то, чего в настоящем нет, не существует. (Ж.-П. Сартр)
Длинные тускло-жёлтые стены коридора качались перед глазами; двери с квадратными матовыми стёклами и с номерами классов казались пластинами какой-то опытной установки, погружёнными в радиоактивную жидкость и излучавшими детские голоса, которые мелодично выговаривали французские фразы … .
Университет развивает все способности, в том числе – глупость. (А.П. Чехов)
День, остывая, приближался к вечеру.
В чём квинтэссенция концептуальной основы вашей весьма одиозной парадигмы политической амбивалентности? (В.С. Черномырдин)
Ex. 18. Use correct articles. Answer the questions.
Where was … cheddar cheese first made?
How did … hamburger get its name?
What did … dachshunds once hunt?
How did … Blackfoot Indian tribe get its name?
What man gave his name to … word boycott?
How did … Saint Bernard get its name?
How many sides does … hexagon have?
What is … Möbius strip?
Through what countries does … Mekong flow?
When did … United States celebrate its bicentennial?
What countries does … Cameroon border?
What other states of India besides … Maharashtra do you know?
Ex. 19. Insert the right articles in the right place.
It’s been … too … fine … day. (Dreiser)
‘It is … rather … strange and sad story,’ he went on after a pause.
It must be … so … cold … night. (Galsworthy)
… many … man fails to become a thinker for the sole reason that his memory is too good. (Nietzsche)
… half … world is so composed of people who have something to say and can’t, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it. (Robert Frost)
It was going to be … quite … interesting lecture.
For a young man, this was … rather … morbid turn of character, and so it affected Carrie. (Dreiser)
Persuading her it’s a good idea is … half … battle; once she’s convinced, she’ll do a good job.
… half … loaf is better than no bread.
My income is … double … national average.
It was as … pleasant … day as I have ever spent.
How … accomplished … pianist is he?
However … good … stereo you have, you will never get absolutely perfect reproduction.
It was … so … warm … day that the students decided to go to University.
It was … too … nice … day to stay inside.
I like … both … paintings.
Yours is … exactly … wrong answer.
He made … quite … effort, but it wasn’t good.
There’s … quite … good film on down the road.
She’s got … rather … strident voice.
It’s … rather … good idea.
It’s … no less … person than the President!
Mary is … more hardworking … student than anybody else.
I am … slower … reader than you are.
Ex. 20. Insert correct articles where necessary. Translate into Russian. Learn by heart.