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Upperintermediate/advanced articles exercises
Upperintermediate/advanced articles exercises
by Viv Quarry (vivquarry.com)
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 oneday 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 xray 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