Exercise 12. Insert articles where necessary.

1. He leaned on … back of … chair.2. He saw the boy on … roof of … house. 3. … neck of … bottle was very narrow. 4. It was … face of … old man. 5. … cover of … book was very bright.

1. He gave her … little bunch of … flowers. 2. I am looking for … box of … matches. 3. She joined … group of … students standing near by. 4. … whole pack of … cigarettes got wet and he couldn’t smoke. 5. The house was reached by … flight of … steps.

1. She asked for … glass of water. 2. We could see … drops of … dew on the grass. 3. What do you say to … bottle of … beer? – No beer, thanks, I prefer … glass of … mineral water or just … cup of … tea. 4. He took … jug of … milk standing on the kitchen - table and poured himself a little. 5. Here’s … piece of … chalk for you to write with.

Exercise 13. Insert articles where necessary.

1. … building Lammiter saw now was … garage (once it had been … stable and … coach – house). 2. … curiosity is … vivid emotion. 3. He looked like … man with several problems on his mind. 4. She went to … window for … air. … pain about her heart was dreadful. 5. It was not … answer he had expected. 6. He asked her if she could get him … clothes in which he could pass unnoticed. 7. … young man in … photograph seemed familiar to me. 8. She stared at him with … strange look that he could not interpret. 9. On … evening of St.Valentine’s day Boldwood sat down to … supper as usual. 10. Suddenly round … corner of … house … group of … men appeared. 11. “… boy is all right,” he said in … low voice. 12. … new information about them? Do you really have … new information? 13. When we returned to … town it was already … late autumn. 14. Oh, darling, it’s … Behrman’s masterpiece – he painted it there … night when … last leaf fell. 15. My brother has … little cottage … mile or so from here, and I have been spending … couple of … days with him.

Exercise 14. Insert articles where necessary.

Before … week had passed … whole neighbourhood knew that Mr. Dale was going to … Africa as … mechanic with … big scientific expedition. … expedition would have to cross to … America with all its machines on board … big liner, and to Algeria and from there it would cross … African continent to … Madagascar.

Anyone who has ever traveled on … New York underground railway during … rush hours can easily understand … following: … little man, pushed into … car, suddenly thought of … pickpockets and quite suddenly remembered that he had some money in his overcoat. He put his hand into his pocket and was somewhat shocked upon finding … fist of … fat fellow – passenger.

“Aha!” cried … latter, “I have caught you this time!”

“Let my hand go “, replied … little man.

“… Pickpocket,” cried … fat passenger.

“… scoundrel”, answered … little one.

Just then … tall man, who stood between them, glanced up from … paper he was reading.

“I’d like to get off here, if you,… fellows, don’t taking your hands out of my pocket.”

Exercise 15. Insert articles where necessary.

1. There was at … dining – table … middle – aged man with … dark eyes and … sunburnt face, who had attracted … Martin’s attention. 2. Aileen knew almost nothing of … literature except … few authors. 3. I must have slept … long time, for when I got up and went out of … room I didn’t know whether it was … night or … morning. 4. We had … cold bacon for … lunch that day. There was not much of it. I took it to be … bacon we had not eaten for … breakfast. But on … clean dish it looked rather appetizing. 5. When … winter came Hans suffered … good deal from … cold and … hunger and often had to … bed without any supper but … few dried peas or some nuts.

Exercise 16. Translate into English.

1. Приходил почтальон? 2. Дом был построен два года назад. 3. Мое любимое дерево – дуб. 4. Мы опоздали на поезд и нам пришлось долго ждать на вокзале. 5. Серебряная луна светила на солнце. 6. Шекспир и Сервантес умерли в одном и том же году. 7. Мы получили телеграмму в самый день нашего отъезда. 8. Вы мне дали не тот адрес. 9. Некоторые из гостей ушли рано. 10. Он постучал не в ту дверь. 11. Попугай может подражать человеческой речи.

 

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по спец. «иностр. яз.» /Л. И. Селянина, К.П. Гинтовт, М. А. Соколова и др.: под ред. В.Д. Аракина. М.; Гуманитарный издательский центр ВЛАДОС, 1997.

4. V. Evans, G. Dooley. Enterprise Grammar 4. Express Publishing, 2000.

5. R. Murphy. English Grammar in Use. Cambridge University Press, 2001.

 

 

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