4. Fill in the gaps with the correct articles in the following quotations. Comment on some of them.

1. … best time to plan … book is while you're doing the dishes (Agatha Christie). 2. My best friend is … man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake (Aristotle). 3. You can put wings on … pig, but you don't make it … eagle (Bill Clinton). 4. … man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies (Oscar Wilde). 5. … hero is born among … hundred, … wise man is found among … thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among … hundred thousand men 6. It is … wise father that knows his own child (William Shakespeare). 7. … enemy is anyone who tells the truth about you (Elbert Hubbard). 8. … cynic is … person who knows the prize of everything and the value of nothing (Oscar Wilde). 9. Better three hours too soon than … minute too late (William Shakespeare). 10. ... wise men speak because they have something to say, … fools because they have to say something (Plato). 11. Even if you're on … right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there (Will Rogers). 12. It is easier to forgive … enemy than to forgive … friend (William Blake). 14. Look at … day when you are supremely satisfied at … end. It's not … day when you lounge around doing nothing; it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it (Margaret Thatcher).

5. Fill in the gaps with the definite article where necessary. Mind the generic use of the definite article.

1. Cuban President Fidel Castro in his opening speech denounced … continuing US embargo against Cuba as “genocide and an insult to … humanity”. 2. He said: “ … People obviously want to shop on Sundays - we have over 3,500 customers every Sunday”. 3. “It's about the future of … mankind”, says Godley of the project. 4. Who invented … telescope? 5. I wonder whether … woman can head a European central bank. 6. For the post-war generations in the developed nations reared on the statistics of economic and social improvement, it will not be easy to accept that … twenty-first century threatens … humanity with hard times and lowered standards of living. 7. You have an opportunity of performing a service to … mankind. 8. In … 20^th century … man went to the space for … first time. 9. … Catholics are always trying to find out if you are a Catholic. 10. … Maori live in New Zealand. 11. It’s impossible for … deaf to study in ordinary schools. 12. Share your feelings with … people.

6. Fill in the gaps with the correct article.

1. It was hot; the old people said that it was … hottest spell which the town had ever known. 2. I made up my mind to see Strickland … following evening. 3. I want you to explain to me why you won’t exhibit Dorian Gray’s picture. I want … real reason. 4. “Henry is … best type of the American Businessman,” he said, “and I think you ought to know him.” 5. She was talking about thirty Africans who, at the request of the State Department were being admitted to Whitehall in … coming semester. 6. Downstairs in … small imagined kitchen I imagined … small image of … man groping for a phone beside him on … floor. 7. He picked a photograph album from one of … lower shelves, and came back across … room looking for the place in the collection. 8. And clapping me in … friendliest way upon … shoulder he went away. 9. He sat back comfortably, in silence, allowing Dorlacker to make … necessary moves. 10. In the middle of … garden stood … old summer house. 11. … only difference in their eating habits was that he used his fork with … left hand. 12. There was not … slightest need for anyone to turn out the spare room but Mrs. Tinker obtained … same pleasure from turning out a room that the other people get from writing … symphony, or winning … cup of Golf or swimming … Channel. 13. The haze of factory smoke intruded on the sky and lay suspended like … grey, flat tarpaulin above … horizon. 14. But all … previous criticism of her conduct was as nothing compared with the buzz of gossip that now went through … town. 15. On … upper side … large piece of vegetation sprouted from the crest on … band. 16. It seemed … loveliest bonnet she had ever seen. 17. I imagine the French aristocrats thought practically … same thing until … very moment when they climbed into the tumbrils. 18. It was … usual noisy crowded place filled with the smell of stale coffee, … very French smell that haunts its houses with the ghosts of ten million coffee brewings. 19. As he spoke he opened a door and showed the way into a room which appeared to be very richly furnished – but again … only light was afforded by … single lamp half turned down. 20. He would do … right thing and allow her to divorce him. 21. Mrs. Packletide was annoyed at the fact that … wrong animal had been hit. 22. He had to stand all the way, and though there were at least five nice-looking girls in … same compartment – and one was very close to him and two of … others he had noticed several times before – not one of them showed … slightest interest in him. 23. He meant that they were preparing their next speech and were merely waiting for … next appropriate moment to give utterance to it. 24. As Gran … last few yards he saw Pat’s eye fixed on something along … shore, and turned to see what it was.