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“A/an” and “The” Fill in the gaps with a / an / the / 1. …………… Acropolis is in …………… Athens 2. I have got …………… umbrella 3. …………… Sophia is from …………… Italy. …………… Italians are nice people 4. Mr. Smith is …………… teacher. He is in …………….. classroom now. 5. …………… Sally is …………… actress. She is …………… good actress 6. …………… New York is in …………… USA Fill in with a, an, the or -. 1. Jeff reads……..…local newspaper everyday. 2. – What does your dad do? – He’s ……..architect. 3. We attend karate lessons twice………week. 4. The children’s favorite game is……….football. 5. We must help……….homeless of our city. 6. She always listens to…………music after school. 7. Maria is………..person to ask for advice. 8. ‘The Beatles’ were a famous group of……….1960s. 9. The children always go to………..bed early. 10. He usually goes to………work by……….bus. 11. Does your brother play……….violin? 12. …….Everest is…….highest mountain in…….world. 13. Don’t drive over 50 kilometers……hour here. 14. ……….Whales are large sea mammals. 15. ………..lion is the king of……..jungle. Fill in the gaps with a / an / the / 1. What’s this? It’s …………… cat 2. Where’s …………… cat? It’s under …………… bed 3. I’ve got …………… pen in …………… my hands 4. She’s at …………… home now 5. Father goes to …………… work every day 6. My brother is writing …………… letter 7. …………… milkman is at …………… door 8. …………… Mediterranean Sea is between …………… Europe and …………… Africa 9. …………… those boys over there are …………… my cousins 10. Is this …………… bicycle? 11. …………… moon goes round …………… earth 12. …………… dog is barking 13. …………… Rocky mountains are in …………… America 14. …………… Diana is eating …………… egg 15. …………… nurses work in …………… hospitals 16. That’s …………… pretty dress 17. They’re buying …………… shoes in that shop over there 18. Come in and shut …………… door 19. They play …………… chess every Saturday

20. These are …………… our books Fill in the gaps with a / an / the / 1. Please give me …………………book 2. Would you like …………………banana? 3. I go to …………………school 4. …………………Thames is …………………river in …………………London 5. Mary plays …………………basketball 6. …………………this book is red 7. …………………Sahara is …………………very big desert 8. …………………Mothers love …………………their children 9. …………………London is …………………capital of …………………England 10. …………………John is …………………student 11. He is …………………thief. He is in …………………prison 12. We have …………………breakfast every morning Fill in the gaps with: a/an/the/1. …………………Greece is in Europe. 2. The re is …………………orange on the table. 3. My father goes to …………………work every morning 4. …………………Pacific Ocean is a very big ocean. 5. Look at …………………these books. 6. There is…………………bread on the table. 7. Children go to …………………school everyday. 8. …………………Sahara is in Africa. 9. I want to wear…………………blue shoes. Fill in “a/an” or “the” where necessary a. Jim is from (1) …………… Scotland. He’s got (2) …………… two brothers and (3) …………… sister. They live with their mother and father in (4) …………… big house in (5) …………… countryside. Jim has lots of hobbies. He likes (6) …………… football and he plays (7) …………… guitar. He has (8) …………… red bicycle. Every day he takes his dog for (9) …………… walk in (10) …………… park. His dog’s name is (11) …………… Spot. b. Clare live in (1) …………… Liverpool. She is (2) …………… secretary. She works in (3) …………… office. She goes to work in (4) …………… morning. She starts work at 9.00 and she goes (5) …………… home at 5.00 in (6) …………… evening. She likes her job because her boss is (7) …………… kind man Fill in the article >aan< or >the< where necessary. Choose >x< where no article is used. 1) I like --------- blue T-shirt over there better than ----------red one. 2) Their car does 150 miles ------- hour. 3) Where's ------------ USB drive I lent you last week? 4) Do you still live in ---------- Bristol? 5) Is your mother working in ----------- old office building? 6) Carol's father works as ----------- electrician. 7) The tomatoes are 99 pence ------------ kilo. 8) What do you usually have for ------------- breakfast? 9) Ben has------------ terrible headache. 10) After this tour you have ------------- whole afternoon free to explore the city.

Fill in the blank with the appropriate article, a, an, or the, or 1. I want ____ apple from that basket. 2. ____ church on the corner is progressive. 3. Miss Lin speaks ____ Chinese. 4. I borrowed ____ pencil from your pile of pencils and pens. 5. One of the students said, "____ professor is late today." 6 Eli likes to play ____ volleyball. 7. I bought ____ umbrella to go out in the rain. Fill in the gaps with a, an, the or zero article (). a) I usually have ________ breakfast at half past ten. b) I loved ________ breakfast that I had at your house yesterday. c) ________ clothes in this shop are really fashionable. d) He isn’t at all interested in ________ clothes. e) They went to ________ Bahamas on holiday, and then they went to ________ Mexico. f) ________ Lawrence plays ________ guitar very well. g) ________ moon looks really nice today. h) Where’s ________ dog? Has he run away again? i) ________ new hospital is very modern. j) We went to visit ________ Eiffel Tower in ________ Paris. k) ________ Republic of Ireland won the competition; ________ France lost. l) How often does he play ________ football? m) I don’t like ________ fish, but I love ________ meat. n) ________ Nile river is really long. o) I’m going to buy ________ sweater I told you about. p) We must save ________ Amazon jungle from total destruction. q) We never go to ________ church. r) ________ old church in the village is really beautiful. s) Is there ________ university in this town? t) He has ________ FTP server. u) I’d love to see ________ unicorn. v) Would you like ________ egg sandwich. w) Her mother is ________ engineer. Underline the correct article. a) What time do you have the / a /  lunch. b) I watched an / a /  BBC documentary this morning. c) I’m going to have the / a /  shower. d) It was an / a / the unilateral decision. e) Do you want to watch an / a / the movie? I have got lots of new DVDs. f) I love the / a /  horror movies! g) He is training to be the / a / an dentist. h) In my opinion, the / a /  dog is friendlier than the / a /  cat. i) The / A /  dogs are friendlier than the / a /  cats. j) They shot down  / a / an US fighter plane. k) I’d like  / a / an apple, please. l) Sandra has lost  / a/ an earring. m) I’m taking my books back to a / the /  library.

Fill in the blanks. Use a, an or the, where it is necessary. 1. Mary is from 1) England. She’s got2) _______ brother and 3) __________two sisters. They live with 4)________their family in 5) ___________ small, but 6) __________ very comfortable cottage near 7)_______London. Mary has lots of hobbies. She likes 8) __________ tennis and she plays 9) _________ piano. Mary’s family has 10) __________ big garden. Mary always takes her dog for 11) __________ walk in 12) _________ garden. 13) _________dog’s name is 14) ___________ Charlie. 2. Steve is from 1) ____________ Manchester. He is 2) _____________ manager. He works in 3) __________ office. He goes to work in 4) ____________ morning. He starts work at 8 o’clock and he goes 5) ___________home at 5.00 in 6) ___________ evening. Steve has 7) _____________ flat not far from 8) ___________ office. It is on 9) __________ third floor of 10) _________ five-storey building. It’s not big, but comfortable. Steve is quite happy. 3. Peter is 1) _________ new student at 2) _______ International School in London. He is 3)___________friendly and he has 4) __________ lot of friends here. Peter is 5) __________ active person. ”I like going out with my 6) _________ friends on 7) _________ Sundays. We often go to 8) ________ London museums and to 9) _________ theatre. Sometimes we go 10) ________ hiking. We like to sit around 11) _______ fire somewhere in the forest at 12) _______ night, play 13) ________ guitar and sing songs. On 14)________ weekdays I’m very busy. I play 15)_________ football three times 16) _______ week and learn foreign languages. I have 16) _________ very little free time to meet my friends.” Put in “a/an” or “the” where necessary Hi! I'm …………… Dimitri. I'm …………… Greek. this is …………… island. It is …………… Rhodes. It's …………… very beautiful island. Look! …………… palm trees are …………… big! …………… sea is blue and …………… very clean Use articles wherever necessary: 1. India is ____ large country. 2. Would you like _____ tea? 3. This is ____ best I can do. 4. He is ____ senior teacher. 5. Shekhar is ____ nice boy. 6. Delhi is ____ capital city. 7. He has ____ big dog. 8. Close ____ door, please. 9. He bought ____ utensil. 10. She is ____ hour late. 11. Rana hit him on ____ head. 12. He has ____ interesting book. 13. ____ table has four legs. 14. Do you play ____ football? 15. We like ____ music very much. 16. This is ____ book I’d always wanted. Complete with a, an, the or no article: 1. My little cousin wants ........... doll for her birthday. 2. ........... Krusty ........... clown is ........... friend of ........... Bart. 3. ........... Simpsons live in ........... Springfield.

4. “Do you want to go to ........... University?” “Yes, I want to be ........... scientist.” 5. ........... Seine is in ........... Paris. 6. Next month we’re going on ........... trip to ........... Bahamas. 7. She wants ........... apricot for ........... lunch. 8. I love ........... pets. I have ........... dog. She is called ........... Coco. 9. ........... dog is my favourite animal. I think ........... animals are great. 10. ........... greatest thing in life is ........... music. 11. ........... Flanders live in ........... Evergreen Terrace, which is in ........... USA. 12. Last week I bought ........... DVD. ........... DVD is ........... animation movie. 13. All my friends went to ........... cinema to see ........... new horror film. 14. In ........... future, I want to be ........... singer. 15. ........... Stacy Malibu is ........... very beautiful doll. ........... doll is made of plastic. 16. ........... Mount Fuji is ........... highest mountain in ........... Japan. 17. “How do you go to ........... work?” “I go by ........... bus” 18. In ........... morning, when ........... sun is shining, we like to have ........... breakfast all together before going to ........... school. 19. “How ........... cute teddy bear you have!” “Yes, it’s ........... Bobo.” Fill in the blank with the appropriate article, a, an, or the, or leave the space blank if no article is needed. 1. My daughter is learning to play ____ violin at her school. 2. Please give me ____ cake that is on the counter. 3. I lived on ____ Main Street when I first came to town. 4. Albany is the capital of ____ New York State. 5. My husband's family speaks ____ Polish. 6. ____ apple a day keeps the doctor away. 7. ____ ink in my pen is red. 8. Our neighbors have ____ cat and ____ dog. Insert the correct articles where necessary: a) Jessica is wearing ______ nice gray suit today. I like ______ suit. b) I went to ______ supermarket to buy some bread. c) We are planning to go to _______ Italy _______ next summer. d) _____ house over there belongs to _____ Browns. They moved in last month. e) "Let's go to _____ cinema this evening." "That's _____ good idea. Which cinema shall we go?" f) Can you turn on _____ radio, please? I want to listen to some _______ music. g) We live in _____ old house near ____ station. It's ____ two miles from _____ center. h) Peter and Mary have ____ two children, _____ boy and ______ girl. _____ boy is _____seven years old and ____ girl is ___ three. Write “a”, “an” or “the”: a) Moscow is ___largest city in Russia. b) He is _____ engineer at a small company. c) Open _______ door, please. d) My father wrote _____ long article on gardening. e) ______ car that I like is expensive. f) My aunt is ____ teacher of English. g) It's going to rain. Take _______ umbrella.

h) We left on _____ tenth of July. Insert a, an or the if necessary. 1 There was . . . knock on . . . door. I opened it and found . . . small dark man in . . . blue overcoat and . . . woolen cap. 2 He said he was . . . employee of . . . gas company and had come to read . . . meter. 3 But I had . . . suspicion that he wasn't speaking . . . truth because . . . meter readers usually wear . . . peaked caps. 4 However, I took him to . . . meter, which is in . . . dark corner under . . . stairs (. . . meters are usually in . . . dark corners under . . . stairs). 5 I asked if he had . . . torch; he said he disliked torches and read . . . meters by . . . light of . . . match. 6 I remarked that if there was . . . leak in . . . gas pipe there might be . . . explosion 7 He said, 'As . . . matter of . . . fact, there was . . . explosion in . . . last house I visited; and Mr Smith, . . . owner of . . . house, was burnt in . . . face.' 8 'Mr Smith was holding . . . lighted match at . . . time of . . . explosion.' 9 To prevent . . . possible repetition of this accident, I lent him . . . torch. 10 He switched on . . . torch, read . . . meter and wrote . . . reading down on . . . back of . . . envelope. 11 I said in . . . surprise that . . . meter readers usually put . . . readings down in . . . book. 12 He said that he had had . . . book but that it had been burnt in . . . fire in . . . Mr Smith's house. 13 By this time I had come to . . . conclusion that he wasn't . . . genuine meter reader; and . . . moment he left . . . house I rang . . . police. 14 Are John and Mary . . . cousins? ~ No, they aren't . . . cousins; they are . . . brother and . . . sister. 15 . . . fog was so thick that we couldn't see . . . side of . . . road. We followed . . . car in front of us and hoped that we were going . . . right way. 16 I can't remember . . . exact date of . . . storm, but I know it was . . . Sunday because everybody was at . . . church. On . . . Monday . . . post didn't come because . . . roads were blocked by . . . fallen trees. 17 Peter thinks that this is quite . . . cheap restaurant. 18 There's been . . . murder here. Where's . . . body? There isn't . . . body. Then how do you know there's been . . . murder? 19 Number . . . hundred and two, - . . house next door to us, is for sale. It's quite . - . nice house with . . . big rooms. . . . back windows look out on . . . park. 20 I don't know what . . . price . . . owners are asking. But Dry and Rot are . . . agents. You could give them . . . ring and make them . . . offer. 21 . . . postman's little boy says that he'd rather be . . . dentist than . . . doctor, because . . . dentists don't get called out at . . . night. 22 Just as . . . air hostess (there was only one on the plane) was handing me . . . cup of . . . coffee . . . plane gave . . . lurch and . . . coffee went all over . . . person on . . . other side of . . . gangway. 23 There was . . . collision between . . . car and . . . cyclist at . . . crossroads near . . . my house early in . . . morning. . . . cyclist was taken to . . . hospital with . . . concussion. . . . driver of . . . car was treated for . . . shock. . . . witnesses say that . . . car was going at . . . seventy miles . . . hour. 24 Professor Jones, . . . man who discovered . . . new drug that everyone is talking about, refused to give . . . press conference.

25 Peter Piper, . . . student in . . . professor's college, asked him why he refused to talk to . . . press. Add the definite article "THE" when it is required. 1) I've just seen ________ latest movie by Spielberg. 2) ________ freedom is the best thing on Earth. 3) ________ Prince Charles will be a good King. 4) ________ boy sitting there is called John. 5) I really like ________ Queen Elizabeth III. 6) I don't like ________ vegetables 7) On ________ Sundays, I sleep all day long. 8) ________ house we've just visited is the most expensive 9) ________ life is so boring! 10) ________ Spain is a very nice country!