Практикум по грамматике английского языка : учебное пособие

Exercise 48. Complete the following sentences with ‘the’, ‘a/an’ or zero 
article.
1. I saw ________very good film on TV last night.
2. I asked my father for ________ advice about finding ________ job.
3. I took ________ kids for ________ picnic in ________ park after 
________ school.
4. My brother works in________ garage in ________ Brighton. He’s 
________ engineer.
5. Did you enjoy________ party you went to on ________ Saturday?
6. I had________cup of coffee and some toast for ________ breakfast this 
morning. ________ coffee was delicious.
7. Stella is at ________ art school. She is training to be________ fashion 
designer.
8. We ________ cheese and drank ________ wine.
9. Can you see those three men? They’re ________ policemen.
10. These are ________ I bought last week.
11. Could you pass ________milk, please?
12. Do you take ________ suger in ________ tea?
13. Andrew hates ________ examinations.
14. I like ________ of ________ rain.

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15. ________ young should listen to ________ old.
16. Chopin wrote ________ lot of music for ________ piano.
17. I went to ________ at 10 o’clock last night.
18. I studied ________ at ________university.
19. Did you go to ________ by ________ bus or on ________ foot yesterday?
20. They released Mr Mandela from ________ in 1990.
21. ________ Soviet Union was ________ biggest country in ________ 
world.
22. ________ weather was lovely when I wrote up yesterday moening; 
________ sun was shining, and there was ________ beautiful blue sky.
23. Roy is now at ________London University.
24. I was lying on ________ bead reading ________book.
25. Who was ________ woman you were talking to just now.
26. Queen Elizabeth Hospital is ________childen’s gospital with 120 beds.
27. Are you interested in ________ politics?
28. Quite ________few children are absent from ________ class once 
________week without any acceptable reason.
29. ________ Nightrider is ________ name given to express trains running 
nightly without ________ sleeping cars. One goes from ________ Lon-
don to ________Glasgow and ________ other from ________London to 
________Aberdeen.
30. He is now ________ student of ________economics at ________ West-
ern New England College in ________ Springfield.