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B. Fill in The Blank With A Suitable Article: A, An or The. (Score: 20)

This document contains an exercise to test the use of articles (a, an, the) in different contexts. It provides 15 sentences with blanks to fill in the appropriate article. It also contains a passage to fill in articles and tests understanding of article use. The goal is to choose the correct article or determine if an article is needed in each blank based on the surrounding context.

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B. Fill in The Blank With A Suitable Article: A, An or The. (Score: 20)

This document contains an exercise to test the use of articles (a, an, the) in different contexts. It provides 15 sentences with blanks to fill in the appropriate article. It also contains a passage to fill in articles and tests understanding of article use. The goal is to choose the correct article or determine if an article is needed in each blank based on the surrounding context.

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Exercise article

Circle the correct

Put in a/an or the:


1. a. The house is very nice. Has it got _______ garden?
b. It’s a beautiful day. Lt’s sit in ______ garden.
c. I like living in this house, but it’s a pity that _____ garden is so small.
2. a. Can you recommend _____ good restaurant?
b. We had dinner in _____ very nice restaurant.
c. We had dinner in _____ best restaurant in town.
3. a. She has _____ French name, but in fact she’s English, not French.
b. What’s _____ name of the man we met yesterday?
c. We stayed at a very nice hotel—I can’t remember _____ name now.
4. a. There isn’t _____ airport near where I live. _____nearest airport is 70 miles away.
b. Our flight was delayed. We had to wait at _____ airport for three hours.
c. Excuse me, please. Can you tell me how to get to _____airport?
5. a. ‘Are you going away next week?’ ‘No, _____ week after next’.
b. I’m going away for _____ week in September.
c. Gary has a part-time job. He works three mornings _____week.
Choose the correct form.
1. Ken’s brother is in prison/ the prison for robbery.
2. Some children hate school/the school.
3. What time do your children finish school/ the school?
4. After leaving school/ the school, Nancy worked as a cleaner in hospital/ at the hospital.
5. My mother is very ill in hospital/the hospital.
6. After work/ the work, Ed usually goes home/to home.
7. Tom left university/ the university without doing his examination.
8. I like to read in bed/ the bed before going to sleep.
9. I am afraid of dog/ the dog.
10. Women/the women are often better teachers than men/the men.
11. Apples/the apples are good for you.
12. The moon/moon goes round earth/the earth every 27 days.
13. ‘Was it a good film?’ ‘Yes, it was the best film/best film I’ve ever seen’.
14. Do you like the mathematics/ mathematics subject?
15. He is playing the football/football in the yard with his friends.

B. Fill in the blank with a suitable article: a, an or the. (score: 20)


One day (1)__a__ parcel was delivered to Mr. Alex’s office at Retford, in (2)____ English Midlands. The
Member of Parliament thought he heard (3)___ sound of (4)___ ticking clock inside (5)___parcel, so
thinking it might be (6)___ bomb, he rang (7)___ local police station. Soon (8)___ squad of army bomb
specialists arrived at (9)___ office and X-rayed (10)___ parcel. They saw that what Mr. Alex could hear
was indeed (11)___ timing mechanism. Obviously (12)___ only safe thing to do was to blow it up, which
they did. (13)___ squad then pieced together (14)___ contents of (15)___ parcel. It had contained some
pyjamas, (16)___ toothbrush and ()17___ small alarm clock. (18)___ MP had recently stayed at (19)____
hotel after making (20)____speech one evening, and the hotel had kindly sent on his belongings after he
had accidentally left them there. The clock had been a present from his wife
Answer Key
1-prison
2-school
3-school
4-school-at the hospital
5-hospital
6-work-home
7-university
8-in bed
9-dog
10-women-men
11-apples
12-the moon-the earth
13-the best film
14-mathematics
15-football

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