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Article Exercise

Insert “A” or “AN” if necessary

Part 1

1. My neighbor is ­­ __photographer. Let’s ask him for ____advice about color films.
2. We had ___fish and ___chips ____for lunch.
   That doesn’t sound ___very interesting.
3. I had ___very bad night. I didn’t sleep ___wink.
4. He is ____vegetarian. You won’t get ___meat at his house. He’ll give you ___nut cutlet.
   Last time I had ___nut cutlet, then I had ___indigestion.
5. ___travel agent would give you ___information about ____hotels.
6. We’d better go by ___taxi, if we can get __taxi at such ___hour as 2 a.m.
7. ___person who suffers from ___claustrophobia has ____dread of being confined in ___small space, and would always prefer ___stairs to ____lift.
8. Do you take ____sugar in ____coffee?
   I used to, but now I’m on ___diet. I’m trying to lose ____weight.
9. ___man suffering from ____shock should not be given anything to drink.
10. You’ll get ___shock if you touch ___ live wire with that screwdriver. Why don’t you get ___screwdriver with ___insulated handle.

Part 1

1. It costs fifty-five and ___half pence and I’ve only got ___fifty pence piece.
   You can pay by ___cheque here.
   But can I write ___cheque for ___fifty-five and ___half pence?
2. Smith is ___old customer and ____honest man.
   Why do you say that? Has he been accused of ___dishonesty?
3. I’m not ___wage-earner; I’m ___self-employed man. I have ___business of my own.
   Then you’re not ___worker; you’re ___capitalist!
4. When he was charged with ___murder he said he had ____alibi.
5. ____friend of mine is expecting ___baby. If it’s ___girl she’s going to be called Etheldreda.
   What ___name to give ____girl!
6. I have ___hour and ____half for lunch.
   Therefor, I only have ___half ___hour – barely ___time for ____smoke and ____cup of coffee.
7. I hope you have ___lovely time and ___good weather.
   But I’m not going for ___holiday; I’m going on ___business.
8. He looked at me with ___horror when I explained that I was ___double agent.
9. I wouldn’t climb ___mountain for $1000! I have ____horror of ___heights.
10. One day, I have ___headache and ___sore throat. I think I’ve got ___cold.
    I think you’re getting ___flu.

Part 3

1. Jones called while you were out (neither of us knows this man). He wants to make ___complaint about ___article in the Yes paper. He was in __very bad temper.
2. If you go by ___train you can have quite ___comfortable journey, but make sure you get ___express, not ___train that stops at all the stations.
3. ___few people know (hardly anyone knows) that there is ___secret passage from this house to ___old smugglers’ cave in the cliffs.
4. I’m having ___few friends into ___coffee tomorrow evening. Would you like to come?
   I’d love to, but I’m afraid I’m going to ___concert.
5. It’s time you had ___holiday. You haven’t had ___day off for ___month.
6. He broke ___leg in ___skiing accident. It’s still in ___plaster.
7. I want ___assistant with ___knowledge of French and ___experience of ___office routine.
8. Hey, I see that your house is built of wood. Are you insured against ___fire?
9. The escaping prisoner camped in ___wood but he didn’t light ___morning fire because ___smoke rising from the wood might attract ___court attention.
10. I had ___amazing experience last night. I saw ___dinosaur eating ___meat pie in ___London park.
    You mean you had ___nightmare. Anyway, dinosaurs didn’t eat meat.
11. I’ll pay you ___hundred ___week. It’s not ___enormous salary but after all you are ___completely unskilled man.
12. If you kept ___graph you could see at ___glance whether you were making ___profit or ___loss.
13. ___little (hardly anything) is known about the effect of this drug; yet ___chemist will sell it t you without ____prescription.
14. I have ___little money left; let’s have dinner in ____restaurant.
15. Would it be ____trouble to you to buy me ___newspaper on your way home?
16. ___man is ___reasoning animal.

Insert “THE” if necessary

Part 1

1. ___youngest boy has just started going to ____school; ___eldest boy is at ___college.
2. She lives on ___top floor of an old house. When ___wind blows, all ___windows rattle.
3. ___darkness doesn’t worry ___cats; ___cats can see in ___dark.
4. My little boys say that they want to be ___spacemen, but most of them will probably end up in ___less dramatic jobs.
5. Do you know ___time?
   Yes, ___clock in ___hall has just struck nine.
   Then it isn’t ___time to go yet.
6. He was sent to ___prison for ___six months for ____shoplifting. When ___six months are over, he’;; be released; ____difficulty then will be to find work.
   Do you go to ___prison to visit him?
7. I went to ___school to talk to ___headmistress. I persuaded her to let Ann give up___gymnastics and take ___ballet lessons instead.
8. ____ballet isn’t much use for ___girls; it is much better to be able to play ___piano.
9. I am on ___night duty. When you go to ___bed, I go to ___work.
10. Peter’s at ___office but you could get him on ___phone. There’s a telephone box just round ___corner.

Part 2

1. He got ____bronchitis and was taken to ___hospital. I expect they’ll send him home at ___end of ___week.
   -Have you rung ___hospital to ask how he is?
2. Ann’s habit of riding a motorcycle up and down ___road early in ___morning annoyed ___neighbors and in ___end they took her to ___court.
3. He first went to ___sea in a Swedish ship, so as well as learning ___navigation he had to learn ___Swedish.
4. ___family hotels are ___hotels which welcome ___parents and ___children.
5. On ___Sundays my father stays in ___bed till ten o’clock, reading ___Sunday papers.
6. Then he gets up, puts on ___old clothes, has ___breakfast and starts ___working in ____garden.
7. My mother goes to ___church in ___morning, and in ___afternoon goes to visit ___friends.
8. Like many women, she loves ___tea parties and ___gossip.
9. My parents have ___cold meat and ___salad for ___supper in ___winter and ___summer.
10. During ___meal he talks about ___garden and she tells him ____gossip.

Part 3

1. We have a very good train service from here to ___city centre and most people go to ___work by train. You can go by ___bus too, of course, but you can’t get a season ticket on ___bus.
2. ___dead no longer need ___help. We must concern ourselves with ___living. We must build ___houses and ___schools and ____playgrounds.
3. I’d like to see ____Mr. Smith, please.
4. Do you mean ____Mr. Smith who works in ___box office or ____other Mr. Smith?
5. ___most of ____stories that ___people tell about ___Irish aren’t true.
6. ___married couples with ___children often rent ___cottages by ___seaside for ___summer holidays. ___men hire boats and go for ___trips along the coast; ____children spend ___day on ___beach and ___poor mothers spend ___most of ___time doing ___cooking and cleaning.
7. It’s usually safe to walk on ___sand, but here, when ___tide is coming in, ___sand becomes dangerously soft ___people have been swallowed up by it.
8. When the Titanic was crossing ___Atlantic, she struck an iceberg which tore a huge hole in her bow ___. ___captain ordered ___crew to help ___passengers into ____boats.
9. Everywhere ___man has cut down ___forests in order to cultivate ____ground, or to use ___wood as ____fuel or as ____building material.
10. But ___interference with ___nature often brings ___disasters ____tree-felling sometimes turns ____fertile land into a dustbowl.

Part 4

1. ___people think that ____lead is ___heaviest mental, but ____old is heavier.
2. Our airhostess said, “____rack is only for___light articles. ____heavy things such as ___bottles must be put on ___floor.”
3. ___windows are supposed to let in ____light; but ___windows of this house are so small thta we have to have ___electric light on all ____time.
4. There’ll always be a conflict between____old and ____young. ____young people want ____change but ____old people want ____things to stay ____same.
5. ____power tends to corrupt and ____absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Insert “A”, “AN” or “THE” if necessary

Part 1

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 always read ___meters by ____light of ___match.
6. Rather, I remarked that if there was ___leak in ___gas pipe their might be ___explosion while he was reading ___meter.
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. 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.

Part 2

1. I said in ___surprise that ___meter readers usually put ____readings down in ___book.
2. He said that he had had ___book but that it had been burnt in ___fire in ___ Mr. Smith’s house.
3. By this time I had come to ___conclusion that he wasn’t ___genuine meter reader; and___ moment he left___ house I rang ___police.
4. Are John and Mary ___cousins?
   No, they aren’t cousins; they are ___brother and ___sister.
5. ____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.
6. 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.
7. Peter thinks that this is quite___ cheap restaurant.
8. There’s been ___murder here.
   Where’s ___body?
   There isn’t ____body.
   Then how do you know there’s been ___murder?
9. 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.
10. I don’t know what ___price ___owners are asking. But Dry and Rot are agents. You could give them ___ring and make them ___offer.

Part 3

1. ___little boy says that he’d rather be ___dentist than ___doctor, because ____dentists don’t get called out at ____night.
2. 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.
3. 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 wa treated for __-shock. ___witnesses say that ___car was going at ___seventy miles __hour.
4. Professor Jones, ___man who discovered ___new drug that everyone is talking about, refused to give ___press conference.
5. Peter Piper, ___student in ___professor’s college, asked him why he refused to talk to ___press.
6. We’re going ___ tea with ___Smiths today, aren’t we? Shall we take ___car?
   We can go by ___car if you wash ___ car first. We can’t go to ___Mrs. Smith’s in ___car all covered with___ mud.
7. He got ___job in ___south and spent ___next two years doing ___work he really enjoyed.
8. It is ___pleasure to do __ business with such ___efficient organization.
9. ___day after ___day passed without ___news, and we began to lose __hope.
10. Would you like to hear ___story about ____Englishman, ___Irishman, and ___Scotsman?
    I’ve heard ___stories about ___Englishmen, ___Irishmen and ___Scotsmen before and they are all ___same.

Part 4

1. But mine is not ___typical story. In my story. ___Scotsman is generous, ___Irishman is logical and ___Englishman is romantic.
   Oh, if it’s ___fantastic story, I’ll listen with ____pleasure.
2. My aunt lived on ___ground floor of __old house on ___River Thames. She was very much afraid of ___burglars and always locked up ____house very carefully before she went to ___bed. She also took ___precaution of looking under ___bed to see if ____burglar was hiding there.
3. “___modern burglars don’t hide under the beds, “said her daughter. “I’ll go on looking just ___same, “ said my aunt.
4. One morning she rang her daughter in ___triumph. “ I found ___burglar under ___bed ___last night,” sh said, “ and he was quite ___young man.”
5. ___apples are sold by ___pound. These are forty pence ___pound.
6. It was ___windy morning but they hired ___boat and went for ___sail along ___coast. In ___afternoon ___win increased and they soon found themselves in ___difficulties.

Bài Tập Article 4:
INSERT “A”, “AN”, “THE”, O A POSSESSIVE ADJECTIVE IF NECESSARY

Part 1

1. He took off ___coat and set to work.
2. Why are you standing there with____ hands in ___pockets?
3. At most meetings___ people vote by raising ___ right hands.
4. The bullet struck him in ___ foot.
5. They tied ___hands behind ___back and locked him in a cellar.
6. He took __-shoes off and entered on ___tiptoe.
7. Someone threw ___egg which struck the speaker on ___shoulder.
8. I have ___headache.
9. Unfortunately, I have ___ pain in ____shoulder.
10. The windscreen was smashed and the driver was cut in ___ face by broken glass.
11. He was ___very tall man with ___dark hair and ___small beard, but I couldn’t see ___eyes because he was wearing ___Dark glasses.
12. Rather, he tore ___trousers getting over a barbed-wire fence.
13. ____brother and ___sister were quite unlike each other. He had ___fair wavy hair; ___hair was dark and straight.
14. She pulled ___sleeve to attract this attention.
15. Suddenly, she pulled him by ___sleeve.
16. “Hands up!” said the masked man, and we all put ___hands up.
17. Ask ___woman in front of you to take off ___hat.
18. He stroked ___chin thoughtfully.

Part 2

1. If you’re feeling too hot, why don’t you take off ___coat?
2. I saw him raise ___right hand and take ___oath.
3. The lioness bit him in ___leg.
4. You should change ___wear shoes, or you’ll catch another cold.
5. There was a shot and a policeman came out with ___blood running down ___face.
6. We shook ____hands with ___ host.
7. He fell off his horse and injured ___back.
8. The barman seized the drunk by ___collar.
9. Leave ___coats in ___cloakroom don’t bring them into ___theatre.
10. He fell down a flight of stairs and broke ___rib.
11. Perhaps, he pointed to a woman in ___green dress.
12. Actually, he is ___thoroughly selfish man; he wouldn’t lift ___finger to help anyone.
13. You’ll strain __ eyes if you read in ___bad light.
14. She was on ____knees, scrubbing ___kitchen floor.
15. He has ___horrible job; I wouldn’t like to be in ___shoes.
16. You’ve got ___shirt on inside out.
17. “Pull up ___socks,” said his mother.
18. I hit ___thumb with a hammer when I was hanging the picture.

Bài Tập Article 5:
INSERT “A/AN” OR “ONE” IF NECESSARY

Part 1

1. ___of my friends advised me to take ___taxi another said that there was quite ___good bus service.
2. ___friend of mine lent me ___book by Meredith. I have only ___more chapter to read. Would you like ___loan of it afterward?
   No, thanks. I read ___one of his books __-few years ago and didn’t like it. Besides I have ___library book to finish. If I don’t take it back tomorrow I’ll have to pay ___fine.
3. ___man I met on the train told me ___rather unusual story.
4. Most people like ___rest after ___ hard day’s work, but Tom seemed to have ____inexhaustible supply of energy.
5. I’ve told you ___hundred times not to come into ____room with ___hat on.
6. It’s unlucky to light three cigarettes with ___match.That’s only ___superstition. Only ___idiot believes in superstitions.
7. He says ___caravan s no good; he needs ___cottage.
8. ___plate is no good; we need ___dozen.
9. Last time there was ___fog here. ___plane crash-landed in ___field near the airport. The crew had ___lucky escape ____man broke his leg; the rest were unhurt.
10. You’ve been ___great help to me; ___day I will repay you.
11. My car broke down near ___bus stop. There was ___man waiting for ___bus, so I asked him for ___advice.
12. He took ___quick look at my car and said, “Buy a new one”

Part 2

1. There was ___woman there. The rest were men. There shouldn’t have been even ___woman. It was meant to be ___stag party.
2. Don’t tell ___soul! Not even your wife!
   Of course not! I’d never tell _secret to ___woman.
3. Most of the staff had been there for only ___very short time, but __man had been there ___year and ___half, so he knew ___little more than the rest.
4. Could you lend me ___dictionary, please? I’m trying to do ___crossword puzzle.
   -I’m afraid I’ve only got ___dictionary, and Tom’s borrowed it.
5. ___chop won’t be enough for Tom; he’ll want two; he’s ___small man but he’s got ___appetite.
6. “I want ___volunteers for ___dangerous job,” said the captain There was ___long silence.
   “Isn’t there even ___man who will take ___risk?” he asked ___voice called out from the back, “Will there be ___reward?”
7. I have ___flat on the top floor. You get ___lovely view from there.
8. ___day a new director arrived. He was ___ambitious, bad-tempered man, and the staff took ___instant dislike to him.
9. Suddenly ___bullet struck ___street lamp ___little to Bill’s left. He looked up and saw ___man with ___gun standing at ___open window.
10. Bill fired back twice ___bullet hit the wall, the other broke ___pane of ___glass. He heard ___angry shout.
11. ____day – it was _____dry day with ___good visibility – Tom was driving along ___country road in __borrowed car.
12. You’re making ___mistake after another. Do you have ___hangover or something?
    No, but I had ___very bad night last night. The people next door were having ___party.
    ___bad night can’t have such ___effect on your work. I often have three bad nights in succession. I live in ___ very noisy street.

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