1. Fill in the gaps with the correct article where necessary.

1. … English book we are reading now in class will be translated into Russian … next year. 2. What are you reading now in class? – … interesting book by Mark Twain. 3. Where is … credit card? I can’t pay for … CD. 4. I have got … elder sister living in Canterbury. 5. I’m afraid I can’t answer … question. 6. My father is … children’s doctor. 7. Open … magazine at … Page 17 and look at … photo. 8. She is … kind and gentle woman. 9. … cell phone is … telephone you can take with you to any place. 10. Let’s go to … country and have … picnic. 11. Yesterday I bought oranges for 30 rubles … kilo. 12. … man is mortal. 13. … tiger belongs to … cat family. 14. Do you know where … oldest university in Europe is? 15. I am to make … speech tomorrow at … meeting. 16. He is not … experienced driver. He doesn’t drive faster than 90 km … hour. 17. … former President of Russia was … great tennis fan.

2. Fill in the gaps with the correct article with nouns modified by the other, another, other.

Note! We say the other when contrast two objects or two groups of objects, another when we mean something different or one more of the same kind.

1. Positive thinking is … other cause Pearce has always tried to promote. 2. I’ve got … other things to talk about. 3. She had flowers in one hand and a cake in … other. 4. Only two students passed the exam with excellent marks, … others got satisfactory and poor marks. 5. So January passed, and Peter quite frequently caught himself wondering how he might contrive an excuse to pay … other visit to her. 6. My father believes in ghosts and … other unexplained phenomena. 7. In … other experiment, Sissons arranged for an actor to dress up in a suit and bowler hat and stand on Paddington station, periodically asking people the way to Hyde Park. 8. I don’t like pasta. Have you got … other things to eat? 9. This film is about two different brothers. One is shy and … other is outgoing. 10. He pulled a book down at random, then … other and … other. 11. Not only did he order the apple pie and cream, but he also poured her yet … other glass of wine. 12. Don’t bother … other people with your problems. 13. “… other game?” asked Pete. 14. Last week the new Romanian authorities asked the Bank of England and … other major central banks to freeze assets said to belong to the Ceausescu family. 15. I wonder if … other dogs think poodles are members of a weird religious cult?

3. Fill in the gaps with the correct article with nouns modified by particularizing and descriptive attributes.

1. … Last year was … first real attempt to recognize the new energy around in the visual arts. 2. In … house there was nothing but … poor warn bed with … ragged mosquito net, … rickety chair and … washstand. 3. … main building dates from … 19th century. 4. … school is an all girls, comprehensive school in Newcastle upon Tyne and has two libraries on … upper and lower sites of the school. 5. Scotland is making a strong contribution to this study and … final conference on … theme is to be held here … next year. 6. It’s … very good thing for … man to be … gentleman. 7. In … next chapter is … section devoted to … dictionaries: Anglo-Saxon, Middle English, Old French and so on, and these will not be detailed here. 8. This happened to me on the Seven Mile Straight; I saw … lorry coming in … opposite direction in spite of … road signs. 9. In … middle of … garden stood … small summer house. 10. … previous crime was supposed to have been … assault. 11. It should be pointed out that … previous law probably covered most of … acts. 12. Brad Pitt is … famous movie star. 13. … principal aim of … project is to provide an answer to this question. 14. Anyone in her shoes would have done … same thing. 15. It wasn't … usual rationalization procedure, believe me! 16. It was … very next day that you so inconveniently smashed up my car.