1.

Fill the gaps with 'a', 'an', 'the' or 'X' (no article)

Frank Crawford is an American citizen. He is also an FBI agent (and has an ID card to prove
it) whose qualifications include an M.A. and a Ph.D. - and he has an I.Q. of 160. Because his
father was an M.P. in X England and his mother, an Italian, worked as a G.P. there, Frank
often sees things from a European perspective. He strongly supports the idea of a united
Europe. He was recently in London for a one-day conference on X organised crime, and he
gave a speech which lasted an hour. (You can get a copy of his speech by sending an s.a.e.
to the address below.) When in London he always stays at a hotel in X Holland Park,
near X Oxford Street, where he always eats an onion sandwich for X breakfast. When Frank
inherited a fortune from an uncle recently, he used it to found a university and buy an x-ray
machine for a hospital.

There was a collision between a car and a cyclist at the crossroads near X my house early
in the morning. The cyclist was taken to X hospital with X concussion. The driver of the car
was treated for X shock.. X witnesses say that the car was going at X seventy miles an hour.

My aunt lived on the ground floor of an old house on the River Thames. She was very much
afraid of X burglars and always locked the house before she went to X bed. She also
took the precaution of looking under the bed to see if a burglar was hiding there.

2. Five of the following sentences are correct, some need 'the'. Either put √ or indicate where
the definite article (the) should go.

a) Martina is learning to play violin. X - the violin

b) Jennifer is learning to play chess. √
c)'Is this Oxford road?' said lorry driver. X - the lorry driver
d) John works in a shop in Park Lane. √
e) This book consists of quotations from great philosophers. √
f) We reached our destination at sunset. √
g) Terry spent summer climbing in Alps. X - the Alps
h) After they had completed their work in prison, bricklayers moved to another site. X
- the prison / the bricklayers
i) Mr. Watt refused even to visit home his relatives wanted to put him in. X - the home
j) History was his favourite subject at school. √

3. Put 'a', 'an', 'the', 'my', 'his', 'her', 'our', 'your' or 'their' in the gaps if necessary.

a) Ask the woman in front of you to take off her hat.

b) Someone threw an egg which struck the speaker on the shoulder.
c) He fell down a flight of steps and broke his leg.
d)You'll strain your eyes if you read in X bad light.
e) He was a very tall man with X dark hair and a small beard, but I couldn't see his eyes
because he was wearing X dark glasses.