Name:…………………………….. Class: 12… WEEK 2.

ARTICLES

Exercise 1: Fill each blank with a, an, the or zero article (Ø)
1. Please turn off ________ lights when you leave ________ room.
2. We are looking for people with ________experience.
3. Would you pass me ________ salt, please?
4. Can you show me ________way to ________station?
5. She has read ________interesting book.
6. You’ll get ________shock if you touch ________ live wire with that screwdriver.
7. Mr. Smith is ________ old customer and ________ honest man.
8. ________ youngest boy has just started going to ________ school.
9. Do you go to ________ prison to visit him?
10. ________eldest boy is at ________ college.
11. Would you like to hear ________ story about ________ English scientist?
12. There’ll always be a conflict between ________ old and ________ young.
13. Can you recommend ____________good restaurant?
14. We had dinner in ________ most expensive restaurant in town.
15. There isn’t ________ airport near where I live. ________ nearest airport is 70 miles away.
16. I arrived in ________ USA last Monday.
17. We left ________ Rome, flew over ________ Alps and made a quick stop in ________ London.
18. There we went shopping at ________ Harrods, visited ________ Tower and enjoyed a sunny afternoon in _______
Hyde Park.
19. Before we landed at ________ JFK airport, we saw ________ Statue of Liberty, ________ Ellis Island and
________ Empire State Building.
20. ________ book is about ________ man who lives on ________ small island.
21. I like ________ blue T-shirt over there better than ________ red one.
22. Their car does 150 miles ________ hour.
23. Where's ________ USB drive I lent you last week?
24. Do you still live in ________ Bristol?
25. Is your mother working in ________ old office building?

Exercise 2: Choose the best answer among the A, B, C, or D provided to finish each of the incomplete sentences
below.
1. Mary loves _____ flowers.
A. a B. an C. the D. 
2. Mrs. Lan went to ______ school to meet her son's teacher.
A.  B. a C. an D. the
3. The workmen went to ______ church to repair the roof.
A.  B. the C. a D. an
4. This morning I bought a newspaper and a magazine. ______ newspaper is in my bag but I don't know where______
magazine.
A. a/ a B. a/ the C. the/ the D. the/ a
5. We live in ______ big house in ______ middle of the village.
A. a/ a B. a/ the C. the/ the D. the/ a
6. I'm looking for ____ job. Did Mary get _____ job she applied for?
A. a/ the B. the/ a C. a/ a D. the/ the
7. Did _____ police find _____ person who stole your bicycle?
A. a/ a B. the/ the C. a/ the D. the/ a
8. We went out for _____ meal last night. _____ restaurant we went was excellent.
A. a/ a B. the/ the C. a/ the D. the/ a
9. As I was walking along the street, I saw _____ $10 note on _____ pavement.
A. a/ a B. the/ the C. a/ the D. the/ a
10. The Soviet Union was _____ first country to sent a man into _____ space.
A. the/ the B. /  C. / the D. the/ 
11. Did you watch "Titanic" on ______ television or at______ cinema?
A. the/ the B. /  C. / the D. the/ 
12. After _____ lunch, we went for a walk by ______ sea.
A. the/ the B. /  C. / the D. the/ 
13. Peru is ______ country in south America, ______ capital is Lima.
A. a/ a B. a/ the C. the/ the D. the/ a
14. I never listen to ______ radio. In fact I haven't got ______ radio.
A. a/ a B. a/ the C. the/ the D. the/ a
15. It was a beautiful day. ______ sun shone brightly in ______ sky.
A. a/ a B. a/ the C. the/ the D. the/ a
16. We are having ______ terrible weather which is quite strange. Usually ______ weather in UK is not this bad.
A. the – the B. a – the C. Ø - the D. the - a
17. Could you please close_____ window? I don't think it is necessary to open all the four.
A. a B. the C. some D. Ø
18. _____ Gordons is a very interesting family. They like to travel around _____ world.
A. A – the B . The - the C. A – a D. A-Ø
19. To absorb more oil from spring rolls, we can use materials like _____ newspaper to wrap them after frying.
A. the B. any C. Ø D. a
20. After a hard-working day, I went to _____ bed and had _____ most beautiful dream ever.
A. the - the B. a – the C. a – a D. Ø - the
21. I have visited _____ Portugal but I have never been to _____ Netherlands.
A. the – the B . Ø - the C. a – the D. a - a
22. Every week, his mother goes to ______ university to visit him while my mother has never come to visit me since I
went to _____ university.
A. the - Ø B. the - the C. Ø - Ø D. a - the
23. Bill Gates was ____ middle child of William H. Gates II, ____ prominent Seattle Lawyer, and Mary Gates, who
worked as teacher before she had children.
A. the / a / a B. a / a / a C. the / the / a D. the / the / the
24. ____ Emperor Quang Trung was ____ second emperor of ____ Tay Son Dynasty, reigning from 1788 to 1792.
A. The - a - the B. X - a - the C. X - the - the D. X – the - X
25. He left on ____10 o'clock train yesterday to see his father who was taken to ____ hospital last week when he broke
____ right leg.
A. the - the - the B. the - a - a C. a - a - the D. the - Ø - Ø

Exercise 3: Fill each blank with a, an, the or zero article (Ø)

Hi John,

I arrived in (1) ……………. USA last Monday. We left (2) ……………. Rome, flew over (3) …………. Alps
and made (4) ……………. quick stop in (5) ……………. London. There we went shopping at (6) …………
Harrods, visited (7) ……………. Tower and enjoyed (8) ……………. sunny afternoon in (9) …………. Hyde
Park. On the following day we left for (10) ……………. New York. (11) ……………. time on board wasn't
boring as there were two films to watch on (12) ……………. monitor (13). ……………. people on (14)
……………. plane were all (15) ……………. Italian. Before we landed at (16) ……………. JFK airport, we
saw (17) ……………. Statue of Liberty, (18) ……………. Ellis Island and (19) ……………. Empire State
Building. (20) ……………. hotel I stayed in was on (21) ……………. corner of (22) ……………. 42nd Street
and (23) ……………. 5th Avenue. I don't like (24) ……………. hotels very much, but I didn't have (25)
……………. time to rent (26) ……………. apartment.

Please say hello to Peter and Mandy.

Yours,
Peter