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Name …………………………………………………………………… Group A

I. Insert a or an if necessary – 10 points

1. My neighbour is . . . photographer; let's ask him for . . . advice about colour films.
2. We had . . . fish and . . . chips for . . . lunch.
That doesn't sound . . . very interesting lunch.
3. I had . . . very bad night; I didn't sleep . . . wink.
4. He is . . . vegetarian; you won't get . . . meat at his house. He'll give you . . . nut cutlet.
Last time I had . . . nut cutlet I had . . . indigestion.
5. . . . travel agent would give you . . . information about . . . hotels.
6. We'd better go by . . . taxi—if we can get . . . taxi at such . . . hour as 2 a.m.
7. . . . person who suffers from . . . claustrophobia has . . . dread of being confined in . . . small space, and would
always prefer . . . stairs to . . . lift.
8. Do you take . . . sugar in . . . coffee?
I used to, but now I'm on . . . diet. I'm trying to lose . . . weight.
9. . . . man suffering from . . . shock should not be given anything to drink.
10. . . Mr Smith is . . . old customer and . . . honest man.
Why do you say that? Has he been accused of . . . dishonesty?

II. Insert the if necessary – 10 points


1. . . . youngest boy has just started going to . . . school; . . . eldest boy is at . . . college.
2. She lives on . . . top floor of an old house. When . . . wind blows, all . . . windows rattle.
3. . . . darkness doesn't worry . . . cats; . . . cats can see in . . . dark.
4. My little boys say that they want to be . . . spacemen, but most of them will probably end up in . . . less
dramatic jobs.
5. Do you know . . . time?
Yes, . . . clock in . . . hall has just struck nine.
Then it isn't . . . time to go yet.
6. He was sent to . . . prison for . . . six months for . . . shop-lifting.
When . . . six months are over he'll be released; . . . difficulty then will be to find . . . work.
Do you go to . . . prison to visit him?
7. I went to . . . school to talk to . . . headmistress. I persuaded her to let Ann give up . . . gymnastics and take . . .
ballet lessons instead.
8. . . . ballet isn't much use for . . . girls; it is much better to be able to play . . . piano.
9. I am on... night duty. When you go to . . . bed, I go to . . . work.
10. Peter's at . . . office but you could get him on . . . phone. There's a telephone box just round . . . corner
III. Insert a, an or the – 20 points

1. I said in . . . surprise that . . . meter readers usually put . . . readings down in . . . book.
2. He said that he had had . . . book but that it had been burnt in . . . fire in . . . Mr Smith's house.
3. By this time I had come to . . . conclusion that he wasn't . . . genuine meter reader; and . . . moment he left . .
. house I rang . . . police.
4. Are John and Mary . . . cousins?
No, they aren't . . . cousins; they are . . . brother and . . . sister.
5. . . . fog was so thick that we couldn't see . . . side of . . . road. We followed . . . car in front of us and hoped
that we were going . . . right way.
6. I can't remember . . . exact date of . . . storm, but I know it was . . . Sunday because everybody was at . . .
church. On . . . Monday . . . post didn't come because . . . roads were blocked by . . . fallen trees.
7. Peter thinks that this is quite . . . cheap restaurant.
8. There's been . . . murder here.
Where's . . . body?
There isn't . . . body.
Then how do you know there's been . . . murder?
9. Number . . . hundred and two, - . . house next door to us, is for sale.
It's quite . - . nice house with . . . big rooms. . . . back windows look out on . . . park.
10. I don't know what . . . price . . . owners are asking. But Dry and Rot are . . . agents. You could give them . . .
ring and make them . . . offer.

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