lOMoAR cPSD| 46836766 Exercise
PHẦN 1: ARTICLES: A, AN, THE OR Ø (nothing)
Exercise 1. Put "an", "a", "the" or Ø (nothing): 1.
My birthday is Sunday afternoon. 2.
It doesn't often snow here at Christmas. We haven't had White Christmas for many years. 3.
Thanksgiving is in November. The Church of England dates from year 1534. 4.
A: I like driving at night. The roads are quite.
B: Oh, I don't like driving in dark. I'd rather travel during day. 5.
A: Are you doing anything at weekend?
B: I don't think so. Well, come over on Sunday. 6.
meals we had weren't very good. We had breakfast in the hotel and that wasn't too bad.
We usually went out for lunch because lunch they served in the hotel was
always the same dinner we had in our first evening, so we tried a few restaurants. On
our last evening we had marvelous dinner in a Chinese restaurant, but that was an exception. 7.
Rita plays violin and her sister plays guitar. 8.
On our trip to Spain, we crossed Atlantic Ocean. 9.
David attended Princeton University. 10.
Florida State University is smaller than University of Florida 11.
chair that you are sitting in is broken. 12.
Civil War was fought in United States between 1861 and 1865. 13.
big books on _ table are for my history class.
Exercise 2. Write a or an in the space: 1. unreasonable decision 6. X- ray 11. elephant 2.
universal problem 7. UFO. 12. hospital 3. unit of work. 8. T shirt 13. BBC programme 4. eucalyptus tree 9. happy girl 14. UNESCO worker 5. honorable man. 10. H-bomb
Exercise 3. Put in a, an or some or leave a space: 1. Have you got camera?
2. Would you like to be actor. 3. Bill's got big feet. 4. Do you collect stamps?
5. Tom always gives Ann flowers on her birthday.
6. Those are _ really nice trousers. Where did you get them? 7. What beautiful garden! 8. What lovely children! 9.
birds, for example the penguin, cannot fly. 10.
Jack has got very long legs, so he's fast runner. 11.
You need visa to visit foreign countries, but not all of them . 12.
I'm going shopping. I'm going to get new clothes. lOMoAR cPSD| 46836766 13.
Jane is teacher. Her parents were teachers too. 14.
When we reached the city centre, shops were still open but most of them were already closed. 15.
Do you enjoy going to concerts? 16.
When I was child, I used to be very shy.
Exercise 4. Put suitable articles into blanks:
1. John is teacher. He's teaching in school in London.
Every morning, he gets up at 7 o'clock, has _ breakfast and cup of coffee. Then he goes
to work by bus. He has lunch at _ restaurant (near school). In the afternoon he works until
5 or 5.30 and then goes home. He doesn't work on Saturday or Sunday. He goes to cinema
or theatre. John has sister in Oxford and brother in London.
2. There are millions of stars in space.
3. I'm going away at end of this month. 4. The sun is star.
5. What did you have for breakfast? 6. Have you got car?
7. How much are those potatoes? 1.20 kilo.
8. Can you think rich should pay more taxes to help poor?
Exercise 5. Put suitable articles into blanks: 1. He is honest person.
2. My father went out to sea when he was 14.
3. When do you hope to go to university?
4. There's a strike at hospital. 5. He is one-eyed man.
6. There's onion left in the fridge.
7. This is useful method of learning English. 8. I've got uncle. 9. Your shoes are under bed. Lake Geneva from his hotel.
10. There's a splendid view of
Exercise 6. Choose the correct answer:
1. The British Prime Minister live in Downing Street / the Downing Street.
2. One of the nicest parks in London is St. James's Park/the St. James's Park, which is very near
Buckingham Palace / the Buckingham Palace.
3. Frank is a student at Liverpool University / the Liverpool University.
4. Mr. Jenkins reads Daily Telegraph / the Daily Telegraph but his wife reads Times / the Times.
5. We flew from London to Orly Airport / the Orly Airport in Paris.
6. Mary and Peter got married in St. Matthew's Church / the Matthew's Church.
7. Some children hate school / the school.
8. After leaving school / the school, Nora worked as a cleaner in hospital / at the hospital
9. All over the world, people are in prison / the prison because of their political beliefs. lOMoAR cPSD| 46836766
10. The other day the fire-brigade had to go to prison / the prison to put out a fire.
11. On the way to London we passed through a small village with an old church. We stopped to visit
church / the church. It was a beautiful building.
12. John's mother is a regular churchgoer. She goes to church/the church every Sunday. John himself
doesn't go to church / the church.
13. Apples / the apples are good for you.
14. Women / the women are often better teachers then men/the men.
15. In Britain coffee / the coffee is more expensive than tea/the tea.
16. Most people/the most people still believe that marriage/the marriage and family life / the family
life are the basic of our society.
17. Life / the life would be very difficult without electricity / the electricity.
18. Skiing / the skiing is my favourite sport but I also like swimming / the swimming.
19. Second World War / the Second World Ward ended in 1945.
20. Don't stay in that hotel. Beds / the beds are very uncomfortable. Exercise 7. Put suitable articles
into blanks if necessary:
1. After lunch, we went for wall by sea.
2. Don't sit on ground. It's wet.
3. On Sunday my father stay in _ bed till ten o'clock reading Sunday paper.
4. He's got job in South and spent next two years doing work he really enjoyed.
5. My mother goes to church in morning and in afternoon goes to visit friends.
6. postman's little boy says that he'd rather be dentist than doctor because dentists don't get called out at night.
7. This morning I bought newspaper and _ magazine newspaper is in my bag, but I don't know where _ magazine is.
8. My parents have cat and dog. dog never bites cat, but_ cat often scratched dog.
9. We live in old house in middle of town. There is garden behind house. roof of house is in bad condition.
PHẦN 2: MANY/ MUCH/ A FEW/ FEW/ LITTLE/ A LITTLE
Exercise 1. Put into the blanks with many or much
1. How people are there in this room? 2. There is sugar in the box.
3. How meat does your mother need?
4. How glasses of orange juice do you want? 5.
There are school boys in our class. 6. How bacon does Susan have?
Exercise 2. Complete these sentences with little/ a little/few/a few. 1.
We didn't have any money but Tom had .
2. He doesn't speak much English. Only words. 3. Nora's father died years ago.
4. "Would you like some more cakes?" "Yes, please, but only .
5. This town isn't very well-known and there isn't much to see, so tourist come here. 6. I
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7. This is not the first time the car has broken down. It has happened _ times before. 8. The
cinema was almost empty. There were very _ people there.
9. There is a shortage of water because there has been very rain recently.
Exercise 3. Chose a word or words form the box to complete the sentences. Some are used more than one.
Too much a few any How many too many Enough as much as How much some too many as many as a little
1. " cigarettes do you smoke a day?" "Forty".
"That's . You shouldn't smoke at all. 2.
“ alcohol do you drink?" "About a bottle of wine a day".
"That's . You shouldn't drink _ that". 3. “ do you weigh?". "Sixteen and a half stone".
"That's . You should try to lose weight". 4. “ do you earn?".
"Not money to pay all my bills!". 5.
" people are there in your class?". "Forty". "I think that's .”
6. “ aspirins do you take when you have a headache?". "About ten or twelve".
"That's . You mustn't take that". 7. "How old are you?".
"Seventeen. I'm old to get married, but I'm not old to vote!". 8.
"When did you last go to the cinema?".
"Quite recently. Just days ago." 9.
"Do you take sugar in your coffee?". “Just ”.
Exercise 4. Fill into gaps a indefinite quantifier: much, many, little, most, a little, a few, few.
1. It seems to me that we've had assignments in English 2.
How material can we be expected to read in one week? 3. books are not in the library. 4.
I've had headaches already because of stress. 5.
depression can be attributed to being overworked. 6.
Our yard looks awful this summer. There are too weeds. 7.
I didn't use fertilizer last spring, and that has made a difference. 8. Also, I've
paid _ attention to how rain we've had. 9.
I'm afraid it's rained times this summer, and the grass is turning brown and dying. 10.
experts say you should fertilize your lawn in the fall. 11.
It didn't seem to do my lawn good. 12.
advice you get from experts doesn't seem to help 13.
of my neighbors ignore their grass, and they have better lawns this year. 14.
They say knowledge is a bad thing. lOMoAR cPSD| 46836766 15.
I know instances where that proves true. 16.
people know as much about computers as Tomas does. 17.
But it does him good when the whole system goes down.
Exercise 5. Choose the best answer to complete these sentences. 1. How people are coming? (a) lots (b) much (c) a lot ( d) many 2.
There have been _ crimes since the police new task force was created
(a) any (b) every (c) much ( d) fewer 3. I have questions for you. Do you have a
minute to discuss them with me? (a) several (b) every (c) each ( d) none 4.
I go to the gym day. I like my weekly routine and exercise makes me happy. (a)
many (b) some (c) every ( d) lots of 5.
of the dogs are nice. We're training the ones that are not friendly.
(a) A lot (b) Much (c) Every ( d) Numerous 6. of the kids at school are mean to me. What should I do? (a) Much (b) Every (c) Some (d) Any 7. I water the plants
other day. I think I'm watering them too much. (a) much (b) all (c) every (d) lots of 8. I bought a toy for of you. (a) each (b) every (c) much (d) any 9.
I like of the cars. I don't know which one to choose. (a) every (b) much (c) numerous ( d) both
10. complaints have been made about the noise level at this house. Please turn the music down. I'm
going to give you a warning for now. (a) Every (b) Each (c) Much ( d) Numerous
Exercise 6. Choose the best answer to complete these sentences.
1. " of you will graduate in June, but others will not. This is a competitive course, so good
luck," the engineering professor said. (a) Much (b) Every (c) Some (d) Any 2.
There is too traffic in this city. I want to move to the country. (a) many (b) few (c) much ( d) a lot
3. There is of noise coming from the house next door. Can you go over there and ask them
to keep it down? It's almost midnight. (a) much (b) many (c) fewer ( d) a lot
4. You have to get a second job because we need money to make ends meet. (a) many (b) much (c) more (d) a lot 5.
I only have a orchids. However, I want to buy more in the future. (a) some (b) few (c) fewer (d) lesser 6.
Do you have money to pay for your car insurance? (a) a lot (b) fewer (c) enough ( d) little
7. I need to get gas. My tank is almost empty. I'm going to fill up at the gas station on the corner. (a) some (b) any (c) much ( d) many lOMoAR cPSD| 46836766
8. We need computers for the students in this classroom. There are 20 students in this
class, but we only have 15 computers. (a) a little (b) much (c) a lot ( d) more
9. We should ride our bicycles to work more so that we can cut down on air pollution. There is too pollution in this city. (a) many (b) few (c) much (d) some
10. You have of candles in your house. Why do you so many of them? (a) some (b) much (c) a lot ( d) many
Exercise 7. Choose the best answer to complete these sentences.
1. I get cavities these days because I started flossing my teeth at night. (a) much (b) fewer (c) any ( d) a lot
2. Do you have ideas you want to share with us about the new playground? (a) any (b) each (c) all ( d) none
3. There were 12 cookies here, but now, there aren't left. Who took all of the cookies? (a) any
(b) none (c) every ( d) numerous
4. I called you twice and, time, I got the answering machine. (a) any (b) each (c) both ( d) all
5. of you will be punished unless the culprit speaks up right now. Who put this graffiti on this wall? (a) All (b) Every (c) Numerous ( d) Any
6. I asked you the same question times, but you didn't answer. Were you daydreaming or something? lOMoAR cPSD| 46836766 (a) several (b) each (c) all ( d) any
7. I don't have sympathy for you because you knew that he was bad news. Why did
you start dating him in the first place? (a)
none (b) all (c) any ( d) many
8. of the leaves on our trees in the backyard are turning brown. We have to water them soon. (a)
All (b) Every (c) Any ( d) Numerous 9. people think that gardening is boring. I don't agree at all. (a) Any (b) Much (c) None (d) Some 10.
You roll your eyes time I ask you a question. What's wrong with you? (a) all (b) every (c) some (d) lots of
11. I don't have energy today. I'm so tired. I think I'm going to take a nap. (a) any (b) none (c) some ( d) all BÀI T Ậ P N ÂNG CAO VỀỀ M Ạ O T Ừ
PHẦN 1: Insert a or an if necessary.
EXERCISE 1 (Chữa trong video)
1. My neighbour is . . . photographer; let's ask him for . . . advice about colour films.
2. A: We had . . . fish and . . . chips for . . . lunch.
B: 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. A: Do you take . . . sugar in . . . coffee?
B: 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.You'll get . . . shock if you touch . . . live wire with that screwdriver.
Why don't you get . . . screwdriver with . . . insulated handle?
11.It costs fifty-five and . . . half pence and I've only got . . . fifty pence piece. You can pay
by . . . cheque here. But can I write . . . cheque for . . . fifty-five and . . . half pence?
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12. A: . . . Mr Smith is . . . old customer and . . . honest man.
B: Why do you say that? Has he been accused of . . . dishonesty?
13. A: I'm not . . . wage-earner; I'm . . . self-employed man. I have . . . business of my own.
B: Then you're not . . . …worker; you're . . . capitalist!
14. When he was charged with . . . murder he said he had . . . alibi.
15. A:. . . friend of mine is expecting . . . baby. If it's . . . girl she's going to be called Etheldreda.
B: What . . . name to give . . . girl!
16. I have . . . hour and . . . half for lunch.
I only have . . . half . . . hour - barely . . . time for . . . smoke and ... cup of coffee.
17. I hope you have . . . lovely time and . . . good weather.
But I'm not going for . . . holiday; I'm going on . . . business.
18. He looked at me with . . . horror when I explained that I was . . . double agent.
19. I wouldn't climb . . . mountain for £1,000! I have . . . horror of . . . heights.
20. I have . . . headache and . . . sore throat. I think I've got . . . cold. I think you're getting . . . flu.
21 . . . Mr Jones called while you were out (neither of us knows this man). He wants to make
.. . complaint about . . . article in the paper. He was in . . . very bad temper.
22 . If you go by . . . train you can have quite . . . comfortable journey, but make sure you get .
. . express, not . . . train that stops at all the stations.
23 . . . few people know (hardly anyone knows) that there is . . . secret passage from this
house to . . . old smugglers' cave in the cliffs.
24. A: I'm having . . . few friends in to . . . coffee tomorrow evening. Would you like to come?
B: I'd love to, but I'm afraid I'm going to . . . concert.
25. It's time you had . . . holiday. You haven't had . . . day off for . . . month.
26. He broke ...leg in... skiing accident. It's still in . . . plaster.
27. I want . . . assistant with . . . knowledge of French and . . . experience of . . . office routine.
28. I see that your house is built of . . . wood. Are you insured against ... fire?
29. The escaping prisoner camped in . . . wood but he didn't light . . . fire because . . . smoke
rising from the wood might attract . . . attention.
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30. A: I had . . . amazing experience last night. I saw . . . dinosaur eating . . . meat pie in . . . London park.
B: You mean you had . . . nightmare. Anyway, dinosaurs didn't eat . . . meat.
31. I'll pay you . . . hundred . . . week. It's not . . . enormous salary but after all you are . . . completely unskilled man.
32. If you kept . . . graph you could see at . . . glance whether you were making . . . profit or . . …… loss.
33 . . . little (hardly anything) is known about the effect of this drug; yet . . . chemist will sell
it to you without . . . prescription.
34. I have . . . little money left; let's have dinner in . . . restaurant.
35. Would it be . . . trouble to you to buy me . . . newspaper on your way home?
36. . . . man is . . . reasoning animal. BÀI VỀ NHÀ
PHẦN 2: Insert the if necessary . EXERCISE 1
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
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11 He got... bronchitis and was taken to . . . hospital. I expect they'll send him home at . . .
end of . . . week. - Have you rung . . . hospital to ask how he is?
12 Ann's habit of riding a motorcycle up and down . . . road early in . . . morning annoyed . . .
neighbours and in . . . end they took her to . . . court.
13 He first went to . . . sea in a Swedish ship, so as well as learning . . . navigation he had to learn . . . Swedish.
14 . . . family hotels are . . . hotels which welcome . . . parents and . . . children.
15 On . . . Sundays my father stays in . . . bed till ten o'clock, reading . . . Sunday
papers. 16 Then he gets up, puts on . . . old clothes, has . . . breakfast and starts . . . work in . . . garden.
17 My mother goes to . . . church in . . . morning, and in . . . afternoon goes to visit . . . friends.
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18 Like many women, she loves . . . tea parties and . . . gossip.
19 My parents have ... cold meat and . . . salad for . . . supper, . . . winter and . . . summer.
20 During . . . meal he talks about . . . garden and she tells him . . . village gossip. EXERCISE 3
21 We have a very good train service from here to . . . city centre and most people go to . . . work by
train. You can go by . . . bus too, of course, but you can't get a season ticket on . . . bus.
22 . . . dead no longer need . . . help. We must concern ourselves with . . . living. We must build . . .
houses and . . . schools and . . . playgrounds.
23 I'd like to see . . . Mr Smith please. ~
Do you mean . . . Mr Smith who works in . . . box office or . . . other Mr Smith?
24 Did you come by . . . air? -No, I came by . . . sea. I had a lovely voyage on . . . Queen Elizabeth II.
25 . . . most of . . . stories that . . . people tell about . . . Irish aren't true.
26 . . . married couples with . . . children often rent . . . cottages by . . . seaside for . . . summer holidays.
. . . men hire boats and go for . . . trips along . . . coast; . . . children spend . . . day on . . .
beach and . . . poor mothers spend . . . most of . . . time doing . . . cooking and cleaning.
27 It's usually safe to walk on . . . sand, but here, when . . . tide is coming in, . . . sand becomes
dangerously soft........people have been swallowed up by it.
28 When . . . Titanic was crossing......Atlantic she struck an iceberg which tore a huge hole in her
bow. . . . captain ordered . . . crew to help . . . passengers into.......boats.
29 Everywhere . . . man has cut down . . . forests in order to cultivate . . . ground, or to use . . . wood
as . . . fuel or as.......building material.
30 But . . . interference with . . . nature often brings . . . disaster......, tree-felling sometimes
turns.......fertile land into a dust bowl. EXERCISE 4
31 . . . people think that . . . lead is . . . heaviest metal, but.......gold is heavier.
32 Our air hostess said, '. . . rack is only for . . . light articles. . . . heavy things such as . . . bottles must be put on.......floor.'
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33 . . . windows are supposed to let in . . . light; but.......windows of this house are so small that we
have to have . . . electric light on all.......time.
34 There'11 always be a conflict between . . . old and . . . young. . . . young people want . .
. change but . . . old people want . . . things to stay . . . same.
35 . . . power tends to corrupt and . . . absolute power corrupts absolutely.
36 You can fool some of . . . people all . . . time, and all . . . people some of . . . time; but you cannot
fool all . . . people all . . . time.
PHẦN 3: Articles: a/an, the
Insert a, an or the if necessary. EXERCISE 1
1 There was . . . knock on . . . door. I opened it and found . . . small dark man in . . . blue
overcoat and . . . woollen cap.
2 He said he was . . . employee of . . . gas company and had come to read . . . meter.
3 But I had . . . suspicion that he wasn't speaking . . . truth because . . . meter readers usually wear . . . peaked caps.
4 However, I took him to . . . meter, which is in . . . dark corner under . . . stairs ( . . . meters are
usually in . . . dark corners under . . . stairs ).
5 I asked if he had . . . torch; he said he disliked torches and always read . . . meters by . . . light of . . . match.
6 I remarked that if there was . . . leak in . . . gaspipe there might be . . . explosion while he was reading . . . meter.
7 He said, 'As . . . matter of . . . fact, there was . . . explosion in . . . last house I visited; and
Mr Smith, . . . owner of . . . house, was burnt in . . . face.'
8 'Mr Smith was holding . . . lighted match at . . . time of . . . explosion.'
9 To prevent . . . possible repetition of this accident, I lent him . . . torch. EXERCISE 2
10 He switched on . . . torch, read . . . meter and wrote . . . reading down on . . . back of . . . envelope.
11 I said in . . . surprise that . . . meter readers usually put . . . readings down in . . . book.
12 He said that he had had . . . book but that it had been burnt in . . . fire in . . . Mr Smith's house.
13 By this time I had come to . . . conclusion that he wasn't . . . genuine meter reader; and . . .
moment he left . . . house I rang . . . police.
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14 Are John and Mary . . . cousins? ~No, they aren't . . . cousins; they are . . . brother and . . . sister.
15 . . . 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.
16I 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.
17 Peter thinks that this is quite . . . cheap restaurant.
18 There's been . . . murder here. ~Where's . . . body?~There isn't . . . body. ~Then how do
you know there's been . . . murder?
19 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.
20 I don't know what . . . price . . . owners are asking. But Dry and Rot are . . . agents. You
could give them . . . ring and make them . . . offer. EXERCISE 3
21 . . . postman's little boy says that he'd rather be . . . dentist than . . . doctor, because . . .
dentists don't get called out at . . . night.
22 Just as . . . air hostess (there was only one on the plane) was handing me . . . cup of . . .
coffee . . . plane gave . . . lurch and . . . coffee went all over . . . person on . . . other side of . . . gangway.
23 There was . . . collision between . . . car and . . . cyclist at . . . crossroads near . . . my house
early in . . . morning. . . . cyclist was taken to . . . hospital with . . . concussion.
....................................................................................................................................driver
of . . . car was treated for . . . shock. . . . witnesses say that . . . car was going at . . . seventy miles......hour.
24 Professor Jones, . . . man who discovered.......new drug that everyone is talking about,
refused to give......press conference.
25 Peter Piper, . . . student in.......professor's college, asked him why he refused to talk to.......press.
26 We're going to . . . tea with . . . Smiths today, aren't we? Shall we take.......car? ~ We can go
by . . . car if you wash . . . car first. We can't go to . . . Mrs Smith's in . . .
car all covered with......mud.
27 He got . . . job in . . . south and spent . . . next two years doing......work he really enjoyed.
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28 It is . . . pleasure to do . . . business with such.......efficient organization.
29 . . . day after . . . day passed without . . . news, and we began to lose ... hope.
30\Would you like to hear . . . story about . . . Englishman, . . . Irishman and . . . Scotsman?
~ No. I've heard . . . stories about . . . Englishmen, . . . Irishmen and . . . Scotsmen before and they are all . . . same. EXERCISE 4
31 But mine is not . . . typical story. In my story . . . Scotsman is generous, . . . Irishman is
logical and . . . Englishman is romantic. ~Oh, if it's . . . fantastic story I'll listen with . . . pleasure.
32 My aunt lived on . . . ground floor of . . . old house on . . . River Thames. She was very much
afraid of . . . burglars and always locked up . . . house very carefully before she went to . . .
bed. She also took . . . precaution of looking under . . . bed to see if . . .burglar was hiding there.
33 '. . . modern burglars don't hide under . . . beds,' said her daughter.
I'll go on looking just . . . same,' said my aunt.
34 One morning she rang her daughter in . . . triumph. 1 found . . . burglar under . . . bed . .
. last night,' she said, 'and he was quite . . . young man.'
35 . . . apples are sold by . . . pound. These are forty pence . . . pound.
36 It was . . . windy morning but they hired . . . boat and went for . . . sail along . . . coast. In . .
… afternoon . . . wind increased and they soon found themselves in . . . difficulties.
EXERCISE 5. Complete the story about the theft of a river barge. Put in a, an, one or the.
This is a true story about (1) ................... man who chose (2)......................worst possible time
for his crime. It happened in London in (3) ................ summer of 1972. (4)...............man stole
a barge on (5)... .. River Thames (in case you don't know, (6).......................barge is a river
boat used for carrying goods). (7).................... owner of (8)….............barge soon discovered
that it was missing and immediately informed (9).....................police so that they could look
for it. Normally (10)…………… river is quite (11).....................busy place, and it would be
difficult to find what you were looking for. On this day, however, there was(12).....................
dock strike, and so there was only (13)……………. barge on (14)....................river. (15)
..................... thief was quickly found and arrested.
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BÀI LUYỆN TẬP NÂNG CAO VỀ MẠO TỪ (EXERCISES)
I/ ARTICLES (A, AN, THE OR X)
Exercise 1. Put "an", "a", "the" and nothing. 1.
My birthday is Sunday afternoon. 2.
It doesn't often snow here at Christmas. We haven't had White Christmas for many years. 3.
We came here in summer of 1969. 4.
Thanks giving is in November. The Church of England dates from year
1534. I like driving at night. The roads are quite. Oh, I don't like driving in park. I'd rather travel during day. 5.
- Are you doing anything at weekend? - I don't think so. - Well, come over on Sunday. 6.
meals we had weren't very good. We had breakfast in the hotel and that wasn't too
bad. We usually went out for lunch because lunch they served in the hotel
was always the same dinner we had in our first evening was pretty a few, so we
tried a few restaurants. On our last evening we had marvelous dinner in a Chinese
restaurant, but that was an exception. 7.
Rita plays violin and her sister plays guitar. 8.
On our trip to Spain, we crossed Atlantic Ocean. 9.
David attended Princeton University. 10.
Florida State University is smaller than University of Florida. 11.
chair that you are sitting in is broken. 12.
Civil War was fought in United States between 1861 and 1865. 13.
big books on table are for my history class.
Exercise 2. Write a or an in the space 1. unreasonable decision 8. T shirt 2. universal problem 9. happy girl H- 3. unit of work. 10. bomb elephant 4. eucalyptus tree 11. hospital 5. honorable man. 12. 6. 13. X- ray BBC programme 7. UFO. 14. UNESCO worker
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Exercise 3. Put in a, an or some or leave a space. 1. Have you got camera? 2. Would you like to be actor. 3. Bill's got big feet. 4. Do you collect stamps? 5.
Tom always gives Ann flowers on her birthday. 6.
Those are really nice trousers. Where did you get them? 7. What beautiful garden! 8. What lovely children! 9.
birds, for example the penguin, cannot fly. 10.
Jack has got very long legs, so he's _ fast runner. 11.
You need visa to visit foreign countries, but not all of them . 12.
I'm going shopping. I'm going to get new clothes. 13.
Jane is teacher. Her parents were teachers too. 14.
When we reached the city centre, shops were still open but most of them were already closed. 15.
Do you enjoy going to concerts? 16.
When I was child, I used to be very shy.
Exercise 4. Put suitable articles into blanks.
1. John is teacher. He's teaching in school in London.
Every morning, he gets up at 7 o'clock, has breakfast and cup of coffee.
Then he goes to work by bus. He has lunch at restaurant (near school). In
the afternoon he works until 5 or 5.30 and then goes home. He
doesn't work on Saturday or Sunday. He goes to cinema or theatre. John has
sister in Oxford and brother in London.
2. There are millions of stars in space.
3. I'm going away at end of this month. 4. The sun is star.
5. What did you have for breakfast? 6. Have you got car?
7. How much are those potatoes? 1.20 kilo.
8. Can you think rich should pay more taxes to help poor?
Exercise 5. Put suitable articles into blanks. 1. He is honest person.
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2. My father went out to sea when he was 14.
3. When do you hope to go to university?
4. There's a strike at hospital. 5. He is one-eyed man.
6. There's onion left in the fridge.
7. This is useful method of learning English. 8. I've got uncle. 9. Your shoes are under bed. Lake Geneva from his
hotel. 10. There's a splendid view of
Exercise 6. Choose the correct answer.
1. The British Prime Minister live in Downing Street/the Downing Street.
2. One of the nicest parks in London is St. James's Park/the St. James's Park, which is very
near Buckingham Palace/the Buckingham Palace.
3. Frank is a student at Liverpool University/the Liverpool University.
4. Mr. Jenkins reads Daily Telegraph/the Daily Telegraph but his wife reads Times/the Times.
5. We flew from London to Orly Airpot/the Orly Airpot in Paris.
6. Mary and Peter got married in St. Matthew's Church/the Matthew's Church.
7. Some children hate school/the school.
8. After leaving school/the school, Nora worked as a cleaner in hospital /at the hospital
9. All over the world, people are in prison/the prison because of their political beliefs.
10. The other day the fire-brigade had to go to prison/the prison to put out a fire.
11. On the way to London we passed through a small village with an old church. We stopped
to visit church/the church. It was a beautiful building.
12. John's mother is a regular churchgoer. She goes to church/the church every Sunday. John
himself doesn't go to church/the church.
13. Apples/the apples are good for you.
14. Women/the women are often better teachers then men/the men.
15. In Britain coffee/the coffee is more expensive than tea/the tea.
16. Most people/the most people still believe that marriage/the marriage and family life/the
family life are the basic of our society.
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17. Life/the life would be very difficult without electricity/the electricity.
18. Skiing/the skiing is my favourite sport but I also like swimming/the swimming.
19. Second World War/the Second World Ward ended in 1945.
20. Don't stay in that hotel. Beds/the beds are very uncomfortable.
Exercise 7. Put suitable articles into blanks if necessary.
1. After lunch, we went for wall by sea.
2. Don't sit on ground. It's wet.
3. On Sunday my father stay in bed till ten o'clock reading Sunday paper.
4. He's got job in South and spent next two years doing work he really enjoyed.
5. My mother goes to church in morning and in afternoon goes to visit friends.
6. post man's little boy says that he'd rather be dentist than doctor because
dentists don't get called out at night.
7. This morning I bought newspaper and magazine newspaper is in my
bag, but I don't know where magazine is.
8. My parents have cat and dog. dog never bites cat, but cat often scratched dog.
9. We live in old house in middle of town. There is garden behind
house. roof of house is in bad condition.
Exercise 8. Which is correct or more likely, a/an or one? If both a/an and one are
possible, write them both.
1. It weights over hundred kilos.
2. I only asked for pizza - I didn't want three of them.
3. I wouldn't allow child of mine to be treated in that way.
4. It only took us week to drive to Greece.
5. I've always wanted to own silver - coloured car. 6. sandwich isn't enough. I usually eat four or five
7. Policies differ from state to another.
8. Less than three quarters of hour later, she was home.
9. All of the competitors completed the race, with just exception.
10. She left home late morning and hasn't been seen since.
11. The best way to learn musical instrument is to find enthusiastic teacher.
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12. Somewhere in the distance, bell rang.
2 . MANY/ MUCH/ A FEW/ FEW/ LITTLE/ A LITTLE
Exercise 1. Put into the blanks with many or much
1. How people are there in this room? 2. There is sugar in the box.
3. How meat does your mother need?
4. How glasses of orange juice do you want?
5. There are school boys in our class. 6. How bacon does Susan have?
Exercise 2. Complete these sentences with little/ a little/few/a few.
1. We didn't have any money but Tom had .
2. He doesn't speak much English. Only words.
3. Nora's father died years ago.
4. "Would you like some more cakes?" "Yes, please, but only .
5. This town isn't very well-known and there isn't much to see, so tourist come here.
6. I don't think Jill would be a good teacher. She's got patience with children.
7. This is not the first time the car has broken down. It has happened times before.
8. The cinema was almost empty. There were very people there.
9. There is a shortage of water because there has been very rain recently. Exercise 3.
Chose a word or words form the box to complete the sentences. Some are used more than one. Too much a few any How many too many Enough as much as How much some too many as many as a little
1. " cigarettes do you smoke a day?" "Forty".
"That's . You shouldn't smoke at all.
2. “ alcohol do you drink?" "About a bottle of wine a day".
"That's . You shouldn't drink that". 3. “ do you weigh?". "Sixteen and a half stone".
"That's . You should try to lose weight". 4. “ do you earn?".
"Not money to pay all my bills!".
5. " people are there in your class?". "Forty".
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6. “ aspirins do you take when you have a headache?". "About ten or twelve".
"That's . You mustn't take that". 7. "How old are you?".
"Seventeen. I'm old to get married, but I'm not old to vote!".
8. "When did you last go to the cinema?".
"Quite recently. Just days ago."
9. "Do you take sugar in your coffee?". “Just ”.
Exercise 4. Fill into gaps a indefinite quantifier: much, many, lots of, a lot of, little, most,
a little, little, a few, few.
1. It seems to me that we've had assignments in English 2.
How material can we be expected to read in one week?
3. books are not in the library. 4. I've had
headaches already because of stress.
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