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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:

1. _____ unreasonable decision	6. _____ X- ray	11. _____ elephant
2. _____ universal problem	7. _____ UFO.	12. _____ hospital
3. _____ unit of work.	8. _____ T shirt	13. _____ BBC programme
4. _____ eucalyptus tree	9. _____ happy girl	14. _____ UNESCO worker
5. _____ honorable man.	10. _____ H-bomb

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.