ARTICLES 1

Complete the following sentences with a, an, the, or ------ if no article is needed.

1 Now that my brother is ________ university student, he has to do ________ lot of reading.
2 As soon as I can get ________ decent video camera, I'll start making ________ videos to put
online.
3 Turn down ________ radio. I can't hear ________ word you're saying.
4 ________ whales can remain submerged for ________ long time.
5 ________ lawyer believed in his client's innocence.
6 I want to live in ________ quiet city where ________ air is clean.
7 Tom wasn't ________ driver of the car that crashed into ________ supermarket on ________
Park Street.
8 No place in ________ world is as beautiful as ________ Swiss Alps.
9 They say she is ________ kindest woman on ________ earth.
10 I think it's possible for ________ people to live on ________ moon.
11 I dressed up as ________ vampire for ________ Halloween.
12 In ________ United States, ________ cars drive on ________ right‐hand side of the road.
13 What's ________ height of ________ Empire State Building?
14 The Humboldt current is ________ cold ocean current that flows north along ________ west
coast of ________ South America.
15 ________ honesty is one of ________ most beautiful things in ________ world.
16 ________ young boy playing ________ banjo in front of ________ train station was good.
17 ________ hunger kills more people every year than ________ AIDS, ________ malaria
and ________ tuberculosis combined.
18 ________ Hokkaido is located in ________ northern part of ________ Japan.
19 ________ Browns are ________ elegant and happy family.
20 Such ________ economic program will help ________ rich at ________ expense of
________ poor.
21 According to ________ Chinese, ________ five elements are ________ metal, ________
earth, ________ fire, ________ water and ________ wood.
22 ________ Shetland Islands are part of ________ United Kingdom.
23 ________ tower you see over there is ________ Eiffel Tower.
24 ________ Africa is ________ continent, but ________ Greenland is not.
25 As ________ rule, he arrives at ________ office at about nine-thirty in ________ morning.
26 ________ River Severn is only 354 km, but it is ________ longest river in ________
England.
27 Mary said that she could speak not only ________ Portuguese, but also ________ Spanish.
28 Many people go to ________ South Dakota to see ________ Mount Rushmore.
29 Tom survived for three years on ________ small island in ________ Pacific Ocean.
30 ________ Buddhism has its beginnings in ________ India.
1 ________ horse that won ________ race was owned by Mr Johnson.
2 Most scientists believe that there is ________ black hole in ________ center of our very own
Milky Way.
3 ________ Christians believe that ________ God is ________ creator of ________ world.
4 I have recently used ________ services of this travel agency to book ________ cruise in
________ Mediterranean.
5 ________ Mount St. Helens is ________ volcano located in ________ state of Washington.
6 I want to write ________ letter to Santa. But can Santa read ________ Japanese?
7 ________ main islands of Japan are ________ Hokkaido, ________ Shikoku, ________
Honshu and ________ Kyushu.
8 There used to be ________ castle on ________ top of ________ mountain.
9 ________ Spain once governed ________ Philippine Islands.
10 Mars is covered by a dirt which has ________ lot of ________ iron. ________ iron makes the
planet look red.
11 ________ wounded arrived by ________ ambulance.
12 ________ Johnsons love to have ________ parties.
13 Even if ________ sun were to rise in ________ west, I wouldn't give up my plan.
14 ________ bicycles are ________ form of transportation that provides ________ exercise and
does not emit ________ pollution.
15 ________ boy you met at my house yesterday can play ________ drums quite well.
16 The teacher said: "Above all, what is necessary for ________ success is ________
perseverance."
17 ________ flood of 1342 was ________ biggest deluge in ________ history of ________
central Europe.
18 He measured ________ length of ________ bed.
19 In those days, ________ America was not independent of ________ United Kingdom.
20 My mother cooked ________ big turkey for ________ Thanksgiving.
21 I crossed ________ equator for ________ first time on my trip to ________ Australia.
22 Tom felt like ________ luckiest man on ________ earth.
23 ________ Himalayas are higher than ________ Alps.
24 Didn't you know there used to be ________ Chinese restaurant on ________ Church Street?
25 ________ people don't usually swim around here. ________ water's not too clean.
26 ________ teacher asked ________ students to split off into groups of two or three.
27 I don't like ________ cats, ________ dogs, and ________ babies at all; I have ________ heart
of stone.
28 Tonight, there's ________ good movie at ________ cinema.
29 Many of ________ passengers from ________ sinking ship never reached ________ shore.
30 Tom doesn't like swimming in ________ pools. He prefers swimming in ________ lakes and
________ rivers.