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shoeing, basically anything that involves being (11) a /–/ the outdoors
and having (12) a /–/ the thrill. Yet mountaineering definitely comes
(13) a /–/ the first with him.
Jordan became the youngest American to summit (14) a /–/ the Africa’s famous Kilimanjaro and (15) a /–/ the world’s youngest climber
to scale both (16) a /–/ the Elbrus in (17) a /–/ the Caucasian mountains of Europe and (18) a /–/ the Mount Aconcaquain in (19) a /–/ the
South America. The boy can also boast of being one of (20) a /–/ the two
people who reached (21) a /–/ the top of St. Helen in the USA.
His most challenging climb – that of Everest – provoked (22) a /–/
the criticism over whether (23) a /–/ the teenager should be allowed to
attempt this. Some specialists doubted that Romero was mentally mature enough. Besides in his daring attempt (24) a /–/ the young climber
was accompanied by (25) a /–/ the small team including his dad and
three native guides.
This fact gave rise to some opinions that (26) a /–/ the teenager
would be something of (27) a /–/ the passenger, assisted on every step,
rather than (28) a /–/ the real climber. But Jordan Romero managed to
shake off all doubts and triumphantly reached (29) a /–/ the top of the
world. Later he wrote (30) a /–/ the book ‘The Boy Who Conquered
Everest: (31) a /–/ the Jordan Romero Story’ which is (32) a /–/ the
visual journey through his quest. His next goal lies in (33) an /–/ the
Antarctica and (34) a /–/ the boy has been making (35) a /–/ the plans
for some time.
8.21. Read the following text. In most lines there is an unneces-
sary word, a word missing or an incorrect word. Spot the mistake.
MAGNUM: PAST AND PRESENT
(1) ____ Magnum is a co-operative of nearly sixty photographers
(2) ____ with offices in New York, London, Paris and Tokyo.
(3) ____ A co-operative was founded in 1947 by photographers
(4) ____ the Robert Capa, Henri Cartier-Bresson, George Rodger and
(5) ____ David Seymour. All them had been involved in the Second
(6) ____ World War. Rodger had walked hundreds of miles through
(7) ____ forest to escape Japanese in Burma. And Seymour received
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(8) ____ a medal for his work in American intelligence. However, all of
(9) ____ founders of Magnum had been photographers for some time.
(10) ___ Photographic work they were famous for dated back further.
(11) ___ Capa’s photos of the Spanish Civil war were called finest pictures
(12) ___ of front-line action ever taken. They all appreciated an importance
(13) ___ of showing the world what really happens during this major
(14) ___ conflicts and world crises, so they decided to produce the best
(15) ___ documentary photography at this time. Cartier-Bresson
(16) ___ once commented that “photographers tell the news step by the step
(17) ___ as if making an accountant’s statement”. He and Magnum,
(18) ___ on the other hand, felt that the news had to be shown in that way
(19) ___ that would engage most the people who are unable to experience
(20) ___ world-changing events at first-hand. Tragically, within a decade
(21) ___ of the start of Magnum, the half of its original founders died
(22) ___ while covering other wars. However, agency had started to
(23) ___ employ other top class photographers and its work was sure
(24) ___ to continue. Today, Magnum is some goal for many young
(25) ___ photographers. It produces the finest photographs of world events.
8.22. Complete the text with correct articles (or zero article).
FOOD FRIGHTS
Planning (1) … big day out this summer? It’s not just (2) … rides that
could turn your stomach! The risk of food poisoning should be (3) … last
thing on your mind when you’re enjoying (4) … quiet day out. But, in (5)
… UK, there were around 95,000 reported cases of (6) … food poisoning
in (7) … last year alone — (8) … four-fold increase on (9) … number of
reported cases just ten years ago.
We checked (10) … food safety at thirteen of our top tourist attractions. We tested (11) … food on offer and inspected (12) … hygiene standards at restaurants, cafes and kiosks on site. Standards were generally
poor. About (13) … third of (14) … sixty-five food samples we bought
failed to meet satisfactory microbiological guidelines.
Sandwiches came out worst – in five of (15) … twenty-five samples we bought we found food-poisoning bacteria. But, to judge from
our inspections, (16) … results are not that surprising. Only one in (17)
… seven food outlets passed our inspection criteria. (18) … majority of
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problems we came across were staff-related, and showed (19) … lack of
training in (20) … food safety.
8.23. Complete the sentences with correct articles.
1. Everyone hates to have to go out in ... rainy weather.
2. ... work gave him ... increasing pleasure.
3. … weather was so warm that we decided to go swimming.
4. He had ... romantic affection for all ... manifestations of ... nature.
5. What ... fine weather we’re having today!
6. It would be ... fun for George to be ... chairman.
7. At first I found it difficult to understand ... English money.
8. I turned the radio on and listened to ... nine o’clock news.
9. In ... warm weather I spent most of the afternoon out in ... garden.
10. That morning ... nature was at its loveliest.
11. I did not enjoy my holiday because ... weather was very cold.
12. What’s ... news anyway?
13. “Congratulations. That was ... very smart work altogether”, he
said.
14. We have been having ... frosty weather for ... week.
15. I lent him five pounds. Do you think he’ll pay ... money back?
16. … birds don’t like this sort of ... weather.
17. “James is not coming tonight”. – “Oh, that is ... bad news”.
18. You ought to stay at home in ... cold weather.
19. I know ... work I’ve done is ... good work, the best of my life.
20. I’m not the man to give you ... advice.
8.24. Supply the required articles.
1. They watched him in ... nervous silence.
2. ... winter set in early and unexpectedly with ... heavy fall of ...
snow.
3. It was ... dark night, with no moon.
4. It gave me ... intense satisfaction that they all enjoyed my article.
5. He went out shooting every morning in ... autumn.
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6. In ... morning when he awoke, he found his breath frozen on ...
blanket.
7. He had succeeded in bearing ... unbearable and he was not ...
man he had been .. year ago.
8. He soon learned that Grey was ... head of ... department.
9. Then ... spring came, late, cold and rainy.
10. I paid my first visit to his house on ... clear February night.
11. ... expedition started in ... autumn of 1967.
12. ... letter began so tritely as though ... surgeon Dr. Larry Skeen
were still ... small boy writing home from ... vacation camp.
13. … magnificent spring afternoon was already deepening into ...
dusk.
14. In ... winter this region is deep with ... snow.
15. He was ... bachelor with ... small income.
16. Isn’t it nice that ... winter is behind us?
17. It was nearly ... sundown.
18. They had better finish ... work before ... winter.
19. In ... moment he was quiet again. ... stillness of ... room became
oppressive.
20. … house must be cold in ... winter.
8.25. Supply the correct articles.
AN ILLNESS
I did not feel too good. I had (1) ... headache and (2) ... sore throat,
and I went to (3) ... bed at eight o’clock with some lemon and honey.
When I woke up in (4) ... morning I was so full of (5) ... cold that I could
hardly breathe. I got up and took my temperature, and upon finding it
was (6) ... hundred point four I went straight to (7) ... bed again.
(8) ... Father wanted to send for (9) ... doctor, and I said I did not
want (10) ... doctor. I slept most of (11) ... day. At (12) ... teatime (13)
... Father came up to see me. He was carrying (14) ... huge parcel. He
put it down on (15) ... bed. I started to undo (16) ... brown wrappings. It
was (17) ... enormous doll. It had (18) ... real hair and several complete
changes of (19) ... clothes, with (20) ... hats and (21) ... gloves and (22)
... shoes and (23) ... socks and (24) ... parasol. I was overcome. I stared at
(25) ... bright cheeks and (26) ... black curls and (27) ... blue china rolling eyes and (28)... long lashes. It was (29) … most lovely doll – (30) …
very present for me then!
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8.26. Supply the correct articles.
A MEDICAL INCIDENT
I came home from (1) ... school one day with (2) ... slight head ache,
and took (3) ... two aspirins from (4) ... bottle in (5) ... medicine cupboard. They left (6) ... curious aftertaste in my mouth, and when my
mother came home half (7) ... hour later I told her what I had done. She
shrieked and ran to (8) ... telephone; I had taken some tablets that (9) ...
doctor had prescribed for her stomach cramps, and she had been warned
that it was dangerous to exceed (10) ... stated doze — one tablet (11) ...
day. She had broken (12) ... bottle that morning, and transferred (13) ...
tablets to (14) ... empty aspirin bottle. That was quite (15) … incident
indeed!
8.27. Supply the correct articles.
STUDYING MATH
My Uncle Nick began teaching me (1) ... mathematics and I spent
(2) ... hour every day with him. I liked (3) ... figures. They amused me.
They gave me (4) ... certain sense of (5) ... power. I liked to be able to
tell (6) ... people how many gallons of (7) ... water were used in our town
every day, how many hours everyone sleeps in (8) ... lifetime, how long
it would take to cover (9) … Mount Everest with (10) ... cigarette stubs
thrown away every week in London. Uncle Nick was (11) ... excellent
teacher. He took care not to bore me with too many theories. Instead,
we went through (12) ... books of (13) ... puzzles, and we invented (14)
... puzzles to try to baffle one another. That was (15) … education of my
dreams!
8.28. Supply the correct articles paying special attention to geo-
graphic names.
1. He had ... pronounced views on what ... United States was doing
for ... world.
2. .... weather over ... Baltic was said to be worsening every hour.
3. This captain, he said, had made marine history by passing
through ... Bosphorus and ... Dardanelles without ... aid of ...
pilot.
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4. Mr Roberts sipped ... cup of ... coffee and looked out over ...
Lake of Geneva.
5. His ship nearly sank in ... Pacific.
6. He told me how he had discovered ... statue, five hundred feet
tall, buried in ... sand of ... Sahara.
7. … book was about ... author’s wanderings in ... interior of ...
Ceylon.
8. ... man from ... Sudan carried his bags to ... car.
9. She showed me ... pictures taken in ... Swiss Alps.
10. “I know there are ... British bases in ... Cyprus”, he said.
11. He said it is ... story of ... writer who goes on ... voyage to ...
South Seas.
12. You oughtn’t to spend ... winter in ... London with that cough
and your chest. I’ll give up my work if you’ll come for ... month
with me to some small place on ... Riviera.
13. His fortieth birthday was at ... hand, and he had never been farther ... west than Chicago.
14. The article says that ... events in ... Asia and now in ... Africa are
not without their repercussion in ... Latin America.
15. They stood for some time, talking in quiet tones, comparing ...
Thames with ... Seine.
16. This was not ... Paris that he had accepted thirty years ago as his
spiritual home.
17. … rains were moving ... north from ... Rhodesia.
18. So George, after forming ... various vague plans for ... winter in
... Sicily or ... Island of Majorca had to admit that he had not
... money for it.
19. He was ... well-known mountaineer scaling ... Andes.
20. He went down ... road to ... library and came home with ... new
book about ... headwaters of ... Amazon.
21. “Where is he?” asked Ann. “He’s in ... Buenos Aires”.
22. There aren’t many sharks in ... Mediterranean, It is down ...
Red Sea that you get them in numbers.
23. He retired to his hotel and sat in his shirt sleeves looking at ...
Grand Canal.
24. ... Asia Minor is ... part of ... Asia between ... Black Sea and ...
Mediterranean Sea.
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25. They stayed in ... Venice for ... fortnight.
26. She was going on ... cruise down ... Adriatic.
27. You haven’t come back to ... very cheery England.
28. He was staring out across ... Nile at ... distant hills.
29. And several hours later he stepped out upon ... soil of ... Newfoundland.
30. The firm made ... loans to ... Argentine and ... Brazil.
8.29. Supply the correct articles paying special attention to
proper names.
1. “Do you know where he’s staying?” – “At ... Bristol”.
2. Mr Robinson arrived at ... London airport from ... New York on
his way to ... Ukraine.
3. Usually he used to read ... few articles out of ... Time or ...
Newsweek.
4. When last heard from he was at ... University of Berlin.
5. “What’s ... French for factory?” – “Usine”.
6. They drove up to ... main terminal – ... brightly lighted, airconditioned Taj-Mahal.
7. He had applied for this assistantship in ... answer to ... advertisement in ... Lancet.
8. Soon after that he was expelled from ... Harvard University.
9. ... Friedrich Weber was ... freighter sailing from ... Hamburg to ...
Colombo.
10. On their way to ... Savoy Hotel he refused to tell Tom anything.
11. Schiller, ... most popular dramatist in ... Germany, was forced to
make ... translations from ... French in order to earn ... money
enough to live on.
12. David said in ... gruff voice that he never read ... News of the
World.
13. Gracie was ... student at ... London University.
14. ... liner Queen Elisabeth sails at 8 a. m. this morning, on ...
schedule.
15. ... lady talked ... bad French at ... top of her voice.
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8.30. Complete the quotes with correct articles – and have a
good laugh.
1. … diplomat is … person who can tell you to go to hell in such a
way that you actually look forward to … trip. (Caskie Stinnett)
2. … dog is … only thing on earth that loves you more than you love
yourself. (Josh Billings)
3. … Americans like … fat books and …thin women. (Russell
Baker)
4. … accountant is … man who is hired to explain that you didn’t
make … money you did. (Anonymous)
5. … actor is … guy who, if you ain’t talking about him, ain’t listening. (Attributed to Marlon Brando)
6. … optimist is someone who thinks… future is uncertain.
(Anonymous)
7. … death is … nature’s way of telling you to slow down.
(Anonymous)
8. … diplomacy is the art of saying “nice doggie!” until you can
find … stone. (Wynn Catlin)
9. … equality is … lie – … women are better. (Anonymous)
10. … birds do it; … bees do it; even … educated fleas do it. Let’s do
it. Let’s fall in … love. (Cole Porter)
11. I always pass on ... good advice. It is … only thing to do with it.
It is never any use to oneself. (Oscar Wilde)
12. I love acting. It is so much more real than … life. (Oscar Wilde)
13. Nothing’s illegal if … hundred businessmen decide to do it, and
that’s true anywhere in … world. (Andrew Young)
14. Remember that as … teenager you are at … last stage in your life
when you will be happy to hear that … phone is for you. (Fran
Lebowitz)
15. … happiest time of anyone’s life is just after … first divorce. (John
Kenneth Galbraith)
16. Treat … work of art like … prince: let it speak to you first.
(Attributed to Arthur Schopenhauer)
17. When I was … boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could
hardly stand to have … old man around. But when I got to be
twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in
seven years. (Mark Twain)
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18. When I was born, I was so surprised that I couldn’t talk for …
year and … half. (Grade Allen)
19. A banker is … man who lends you … umbrella when … weather
is fair, and takes it away from you when it rains. (Anonymous)
20. California is … great place – if you happen to be … orange.
(F. Allen)
4.31. The articles (THE and A/AN) have been taken out of these
texts. Replace them where necessary.
1. School classrooms have changed very little over last century.
Walls may be a little more colourful and chairs may be more
comfortable, but school-child of 100 years ago would have no
difficulty in recognising today’s classroom. There are still rows
of desks, perhaps blackboard, and shelves of books. However,
these days there is something found in classrooms that would
bewilder them – computer. And it is this that is completely
changing way we learn at school, at college and in home.
2. When crime is first discovered, police often don’t know who
has done it or why. Usually, though, person who has committed
crime will have left some evidence of their identity at scene such
as footprint, blood, or fibres from clothing. This evidence often
forms basis of any case against suspect who police may take to
court.
3. Space satellite does not need to be streamlined in order to fly
since there is no air in space to slow it down. However, it does
need source of energy to power its electronic circuitry, so satellite has large solar panels that convert sunlight into electricity. In
addition, it is necessary for satellite to stay in exactly right position so that its antennae face radio stations on ground. For this
reason it is equipped with gas thrusters which can move satellite
into correct orbit, high above Earth.
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8.32. Articles have been removed from the following passage.
Find 18 missing articles.
LONDON BRIDGE IS FALLING DOWN
Romans invaded Britain in AD 43 and, chasing ancient Britons
along Thames, they came to first place where it was easy to cross. They
built garrison there – and London was born. They also erected bridge
over river. Garrison became major trading post. Later, bridge suffered
neglect and whole area was raided by Vikings. In AD 886 Alfred Great
drove out raiders, bridge was repaired and city prospered again. Hundred
years later. Vikings returned but King Ethelred sailed up Thames, attached ropes to London Bridge, headed downriver and pulled it down.
8.33. Complete the paragraph below with correct articles (zero
articles sometimes).
A DAY IN THE LIFE OF AN ORDINARY MAN
This morning I woke up around ten, I made (1) … cup of coffee,
took it into (2) … bedroom and put it on … (3) table next to … (4) bed,
on … (5) side my wife sleeps on. I go through this ritual twice (6) … week – I
do it on (7) … Saturday and (8) … Sunday mornings. On (9) … other days
of (10) … week, we go to (11) …work at different times and I always get
up first to get (12) … kids ready for (13)… school.
I drop them off outside (14) … school which is an old Victorian
building on the corner of (15) … Hill Road, and then go straight to (16)
… work. I work in (17) … office in (18) … city centre and I always have
(19) … problem finding (20) … parking space. My wife says I’m always
complaining about (21) … traffic and the pollution, which is true – you
see, I grew up in (22) … country, close to (23) … nature and I have never
got used to living in (24) … city.
I think the only thing I would miss about living in (25) … big city like
this is going to (26) … concerts of all kinds. I love rock and classical music, too, and especially going to (27) … cinema, which I am particularly
keen on. I also like (28) … good food and occasionally we go out and
have (29) … dinner in a nice restaurant, but most of the time we eat at
(30) … home, where the food is delicious – except when I make it!
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