Articles Exercise 1 Exercise based on the opening text in Thanks a Million Please complete the following exercise using a/an/the/O (no artice) in the underlined spaces where appropriate. Change capital letters to lower case letters at the beginning of » sentence if Recessary. Ms Parrot, (1) _most famous lady detective of (2)_ twenty-first century, was born in (3) ___ United kingdom in (4) _ 1960s. Since then, she has been to ‘many countries, including (5) (6)__northern hemisphere and (7)__ — Portugal, Singapore and Australia, and has lives southern hemisphere, as well as on (8) _ equator. She has never been to (9)__ Philippines or (20) United States, but she speaks (11) English, French and Portuguese. Like Sherlock Holmes, (22) __famous detective, she plays (13) __violin, and sometimes practises up to five times (aa) — d2¥- She is also (15) ___only person in (16) _ world to have performed Tchaikovsky's 1812 overture [a long piece of music] in one breath on (17)___ recorder. She has been (18) ___ detective for thirty years and claims that although many people think that being (19) __ detective is (20) _piece of cake, detectives generally work very hard and is not all fun and games. (21) __detective is someone who solves mysteries, and (22) __ People who contact Ms Parrot have some very unusual problems. Little information is available about some of (23)___cases she has solved, but quite (24) __ few of her most famous cases have attracted worldwide attention and she has been offered up to (25)__ thousand dollars (26) — hour to help solve mysteries such as (27) _case of (28) _ Australian owl in (29) _ Uniform. (30) __ bird laid (31) _egg in (32)__ European nest in less than (33) __ hour after its arrival. What (34) __ strange problem! With great (35) _ modesty, she has either declined such (36) __ fee or donated (37)_ money to (38) _ poor, or to (39) _ Grammar Survival Fund, believing that (40)_ detective should use their skills for (41) _ common good. Julia Miller, Articles exercises, English for Uni, www.adelaide.edu.au/english-for-uni 1Better English Lessons ‘Home Grammar Lessons Vocabulary Lessons Easier Lessons Phrasal Verbs (OAsbyGoeom Engh Gran Test ‘Adjectives with sing / ed mating exercise \Watwordde you need completa e tartan? |do the same thing everyday. My jobs very_. 1 have nothing to do. tm __ My job very varied, find it ‘m____in applying forthe jb, ‘heard some very _news. tm going o lose my jo. foe tebe CCheer up . Don't feelso__. There are plenty of other jobs. ‘heard very __stoy. It wil make you laugh Itsnot___ that you fled the exam. You never ei any work | dont understand this exercise. rm very | thought your behaviour at the party wa ‘You were sick nthe middle ofthe room. My tipo Pars has been cancelled. really realy wanted to go. ‘The performance of the English team was very_. They played much worse than expected. There are alot of road signs. Its all very | am very _in this subject. | init fascinating ‘The lesson was realy _. almost fel asleep. | was__by her behaviour. It was very funny. Iwas __ by the news. I diet expect. was ___ by his behaviour. twas outrageous. tm. finding out more about this. Where can look? ‘When the students did badly, the teacher became realy. ___and didnt smile for weeks. [Ete] Your score is —] OOOOU0o00000000000o0