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Article Exercises
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. 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 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.
13. Jane is _____ teacher. Her parents were _____ teachers too.

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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. 10. There's a splendid view of_____ Lake Geneva from his
hotel.

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 St. Matthew's Church.
7. Some children hate school / the school.
8. After leaving school / the school, Nora worked as a cleaner at hospital / 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 than 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 War 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?

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.
12. Somewhere in the distance, ______ bell rang.

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