BÀI TẬP MẠO TỪ - ARTICLE EXERCISES
I/ ARTICLES: A, AN, THE OR Ø(nothing).
Exercise 1. Put "an", "a", "the" or Ø (nothing):
1. My birthday is _____ Sunday afternoon.
2. It doesn't often snow here at _____ Christmas. We haven't had _____ White Christmas for many years.
3. We came here in _____ summer of _____ 1969.
4. _____ Thanks giving is in _____ November. The Church of England dates from _____ year 1534. I like driving at ____ night. The roads are quite. Oh, I don't like driving in ____ park. I'd rather travel during___ day.
5. Are you doing anything at _____ weekend? + I don't think so. Well, come over on _____ Sunday.
6. __ meals we had weren't very good. We had___ breakfast in the hotel and that wasn't too bad. We usually went out for _____ lunch because _____ lunch they served in the hotel was always the same _____ dinner we had in our first evening was pretty a few, so we tried a few restaurants. On our last evening we had _____ marvelous dinner in a Chinese restaurant, but that was an exception.
7. Rita plays _____ violin and her sister plays _____ guitar.
8. On our trip to _____ Spain, we crossed _____ Atlantic Ocean.
9. David attended _____ Princeton University.
10. _____ Florida State University is smaller than _____ University of Florida
11. _____ chair that you are sitting in is broken.
12. _____ Civil War was fought in _____ United States between 1861 and 1865.
13. _____ big books on _____ table are for my history class.
Exercise 2. Write a or an in the space:
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1. _____ unreasonable decision
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6. _____ X- ray
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11. _____ elephant
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2. _____ universal problem
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7. _____ UFO.
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12. _____ hospital
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3. _____ unit of work.
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8. _____ T shirt
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13. _____ BBC programme
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4. _____ eucalyptus tree
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9. _____ happy girl
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14. _____ UNESCO worker
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5. _____ honorable man.
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10. _____ H-bomb
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Exercise 3. Put in a, an or some or leave a space:
1. Have you got _____ camera? 2. Would you like to be _____ actor.
3. Bill's got _____ big feet. 4. Do you collect _____ stamps?
5. Tom always gives Ann _____ flowers on her birthday.
6. Those are _____ really nice trousers. Where did you get them?
7. What _____ beautiful garden! 8. What _____ lovely children!
9. _____ birds, for example the penguin, cannot fly.
10. Jack has got _____ very long legs, so he's _____ fast runner.
11. You need _____ visa to visit _____ foreign countries, but not all of them .
12. I'm going shopping. I'm going to get _____ new clothes.
13. Jane is _____ teacher. Her parents were _____ teachers too.
14. When we reached the city centre, _____ shops were still open but most of them were already closed.
15. Do you enjoy going to _____ concerts? 16. When I was _____ child, I used to be very shy.
Exercise 4. Put suitable articles into blanks:
1. John is _____ teacher. He's teaching in _____ school in London.
Every morning, he gets up at 7 o'clock, has _____ breakfast and _____ cup of _____ coffee. Then he goes to work by bus. He has _____ lunch at _____ restaurant (near _____ school). In the afternoon he works until 5 or 5.30 and then goes _____ home. He doesn't work on _____ Saturday or Sunday. He goes to _____ cinema or theatre. John has _____ sister in Oxford and _____ brother in _____ London.
2. There are millions of stars in _____ space. 3. I'm going away at _____ end of this month.
4. The sun is _____ star. 5. What did you have for _____ breakfast?
6. Have you got _____ car? 7. How much are those potatoes? 1.20 _____ kilo.
8. Can you think _____ rich should pay more taxes to help _____ poor?
Exercise 5. Put suitable articles into blanks:
1. He is _____ honest person. 2. My father went out to _____ sea when he was 14.
3. When do you hope to go to _____ university? 4. There's a strike at _____ hospital.
5. He is_____ one-eyed man. 6. There's _____ onion left in the fridge.
7. This is_____ useful method of learning English. 8. I've got _____ uncle.
9. Your shoes are under_____ bed. 10. There's a splendid view of_____ Lake Geneva from his hotel.
Exercise 7. Put suitable articles into blanks if necessary:
1. After _____ lunch, we went for _____ wall by _____ sea. 2. Don't sit on _______ ground. It's wet.
3. On _______ Sunday my father stay in _______ bed till ten o'clock reading _______ Sunday paper.
4. He's got _____ job in ______ South and spent ______ next two years doing ______ work he really enjoyed.
5. My mother goes to _____ church in _____ morning and in ______ afternoon goes to visit _______ friends.
6. ____ post man's little boy says that he'd rather be _____ dentist than _____ doctor because _____ dentists don't get called out at ______ night.
7. This morning I bought _____ newspaper and _____ magazine _____ newspaper is in my bag, but I don't know where ______ magazine is.
8. My parents have ____ cat and____ dog.____ dog never bites ____ cat, but____ cat often scratched____ dog.
9. We live in ___ old house in ___ middle of town. There is ___ garden behind ___ house.___ roof of ___ house is in bad condition.
Exercise 8. Which is correct or more likely, a/an or one? If both a/an and one arepossible, write them both:
1. It weights over _______ hundred kilos.
2. I only asked for _______ pizza - I didn't want three of them.
3. I wouldn't allow _______ child of mine to be treated in that way.
4. It only took us _______ week to drive to Greece.
5. I've always wanted to own _______ silver - coloured car.
6. _______ sandwich isn't enough. I usually eat four or five
7. Policies differ from _______ state to another.
8. Less than three quarters of _______ hour later, she was home.
9. All of the competitors completed the race, with just _______ exception.
10. She left home late ______ morning and hasn't been seen since.
11. The best way to learn______ musical instrument is to find ______ enthusiastic teacher.
12. Somewhere in the distance, ______ bell rang.
II. Complete the sentences with a, an, the, or zero article (Ø).
1. John and Mary went to ..Ø.. school yesterday and then studied in .....the.....library before returning home.
2.....Ø....Lake Erie is one of ...Ø...... five great Lakes in .....the............ North America.
3. On our trip to ............Ø.......... Spain, we crossed ....the.........Atlantic Ocean.
4.........Ø........Mount Rushmore is the site of .......a ( the)....... magnificent tribute to......Ø.......four great American presidents.
5. What did you eat for .....Ø.......... breakfast this morning?
6. David played .....Ø...basketball and .....Ø............ baseball at.......the...Boy’s club this year.
7. Rita plays....Ø( the).....violin and her sister plays..Ø(the)........guitar.
8. While we were in....Ø......Alaska, we saw.....an........Eskimo village.
9. Ton can’t go to....the........movies tonight because he has to write.....an....essay.
10. David attended ....Ø.......Princeton University.
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