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1. Write “a” / “an” or “the”.
A. Mary has got (1) … cat. (2) … cat is grey and white. (3) … cat’s fur is soft and pushy. It likes to play with (4) … small ball. What (5) … lovely cat it is!
B. Nick has got (1) … puppy. (2) … puppy’s legs are short. (3) … puppy has got big ears and (4) … very long tail. How funny (5) ... puppy is!
C. Russia is (1) … big country. (2) … capital of Russia is Moscow. Moscow is (3) … old city. (4) … Kremlin is (5) … heart of Moscow.
D. Olga is (1) … good student and she usually gets good marks. What (2) … clever girl Olga is! Her brother is (3) … schoolboy. He doesn’t like to do his homework and he often gets (4) … bad mark. How lazy (5) … boy is!
E. Amanda lives in (1) … old house in (2) … country. What (3) … quite and beautiful place it is! Bill lives in (4) … block of flats not far from (5) … centre. How noisy and polluted (6) … place where he lives is!
Answers:
A. 1. a; 2. the; 3. the; 4. a; 5. a
B. 1. a; 2. the; 3. the; 4. a; 5. the
C. 1. a; 2. the; 3. an; 4. the; 5. the
D. 1. a; 2. a; 3. a; 4. a; 5. the
E. 1. an; 2. the; 3. a; 4. a; 5. the; 6. the
2. Write “a” / “an” or “ –”.
A. I like (1) … coffee and (2) …cheese very much. I usually have for (3) … breakfast (4) … cup of (5) … coffee and (6) … piece of (7) … cheese.
B. Ann is (1) … vegetarian. She doesn’t eat (2) … meat or (3) … fish. She usually has (4) … bowl of (5) …porridge with (6) …spoon of(7) … honey for (8) … breakfast.
C. Lisa often goes on (1) … diet. She usually has (2) … light breakfast. She never has (3) …supper. She usually has (4) … cup of (5) … tea without (6) … sugar or (7) … glass of (8) … juice in the evening.
D. The girls in our class like playing (1) … volleyball. They often have (2) … game of (3) … volleyball on (4) … Sunday. The boys like playing (5) … football. Every day they have (6) … match of (7) … football after (8) … classes. As for me, I have never really been keen on (9) … sport. I like (10) … music and I prefer listening to (11) … music to playing (12) … sport game.
E. Peter goes to (1) … school every day. Yesterday he caught (2) … cold. He stayed at (3) … home. Now Peter is in (4) … bed. He has got (5) … sore throat and (6) … bad headache. His mother is at (7) … work. She finishes (8) … work at 6 o’clock and she usually comes (9) … home at 7 o’clock. But today she is worrying about her son’s health, so she is going (10) … home at two o’clock.
Answers:
A. 1. –; 2. –; 3. –; 4. a; 5. –; 6. a; 7. –
B. 1. a; 2. –; 3. –; 4. a; 5. –; 6. a; 7. –; 8. –
C. 1. a; 2. a; 3. –; 4. a; 5. –; 6. –; 7. a; 8. –
D. 1. –; 2. a; 3. –; 4. –; 5. –; 6. a; 7. –; 8. –; 9. –; 10. –; 11. –; 12. a
E. 1. –; 2. a / –; 3. –; 4. –; 5. a; 6. a; 7. –; 8. –; 9. –; 10. –
3. Write “the” or (-).
A. David wants to go to (1) … university after he leaves (2) … school. He learns two foreign languages :(3) … English language and (4) … French language. He is very good at (5) … English. But he speaks (6) … French with (7) … difficulty. His knowledge of (8) … French is rather poor.
B. Marta is fond of (1) … music. She can play (2) … piano and she is learning to play (3) … violin. She prefers (4) … classical music to (5) … pop music. She likes (6) …jazz very much, and she often goes to (7) … jazz concerts. She doesn’t like (8) … blues at all, because most songs are about (9) … loneliness, (10) … sadness and (11) … lost love.
C. (1) … moon is a satellite of (2) … Earth. It moves round (3) … Earth and can be seen at (4) … night. (5) …Earth moves round (6) … sun. It isn’t a satellite, it is (7) … burning star in (8) … sky which gives (9) … Earth (10) … light and (11) … heat.
D. I like watching (1) … television. I always turn on (2) … TV when I have (3) …breakfast, (4) …lunch or (5) … dinner. I often watch (6) … television news. But I never listen to (7) … radio. As for my granny, she likes listening to (8) … radio. She turns on (9) … TV when there is a soap opera on (10) … television. But she usually goes to sleep in the middle of the film and never turns (11) … television off.
E. I hope to go to (1) … United States (2) … next year. (3) … USA is in (4) … North America. It is between (5) … Canada and (6) … Mexico. We’ll go there by (7) … plane and we’ll have to fly over (8) … Bermuda Triangle. It is an area in (9) … Atlantic Ocean where many aircrafts have strangely disappeared.
Answers:
A. 1. –; 2. –; 3. the; 4. the; 5. –; 6. –; 7. –; 8. –
B. 1. –; 2. the; 3. the; 4. –; 5. –; 6. –; 7. –; 8. –; 9. –; 10. –; 11. –
C. 1. the; 2. the; 3. the; 4. –; 5. the; 6. the; 7. the; 8. the; 9. the; 10. –; 11. –
D. 1. –; 2. the; 3. –; 4. –; 5. –; 6. the; 7. the; 8. the; 9. the; 10. –; 11. the
E. 1. the; 2. –; 3. the; 4. –; 5. –; 6. –; 7. –; 8. the; 9. the