Fill in the blanks with articles if necessary before nouns modified by numerals.
Fill in the blanks with articles wherever necessary.
1. It was hot; the old people said that it was ... hottest spell which the town had ever known. 2. I made up my mind to see Strickland ... following evening. 3. I want you to explain to me why you won't exhibit Dorian Gray's picture. I want ... real reason. 4. "Henry is ... best type of the American businessman," he said, "and I think you ought to know him." 5. She was talking about thirty Africans who, at the request of the State Department were being admitted to Whitehall in ... coming semester. 6. Downstairs in ... small imagined kitchen I imagined ... small image of ... man groping for a phone beside him on ... floor. 7. He picked a photograph album from one of ... lower shelves, and came back across ... room looking for the place in the collection. 8. And clapping me in ...friendliest way upon ... shoulder he went away. 9. He sat back comfortably, in silence, allowing Dorlacker to make ... necessary moves. 10. In the middle of ... garden stood ... old summer house. 11. ... only difference in their eating habits was that he used his fork with ... left hand. 12. There was not ... slightest need for anyone to turn out the spare room but Mrs. Tinker obtained ... same pleasure from turning out a room that other people get from writing ... symphony, or winning ... cup of Golf or swimming ... Channel. 13. The haze of factory smoke intruded on the sky and lay suspended like ... grey, flat tarpoulin above ... horizon. 14. But all ... previous criticism of her conduct was as nothing compared with the buzz of gossip that now went through ... town. 15. On ... upper side ... large piece of vegetation sprouted from the crest on ... band. 16. It seemed ... loveliest bonnet she had ever seen. 17. I imagine the French aristocrats thought practically ... same thing until ... very moment when they climbed into the tumbrils. 18. It was ... usual noisy crowded place filled with the smell of stale coffee, ... very French smell that haunts its houses with the ghosts of ten million coffee brewings. 19. As he spoke he opened a door and showed the way into a room which appeared to be very richly furnished – but again ... only light was afforded by ... single lamp half turned down. 20. He would do ... right thing and allow her to divorce him. 21. Mrs. Packletide was annoyed at the fact that ... wrong animal had been hit. 22. He had to stand all the way, and though there were at least five nice-looking girls in ... same compartment – and one was very close to him and two of ... others he had noticed several times before – not one of them showed ...
slightest interest in him. 23. He meant that they were preparing their next speech and were merely waiting for ... next appropriate moment to give utterance to it. 24. As Grant was paddling ... last few yards he saw Pat's eye fixed on something along ... shore, and turned to see what it was.
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8. Fill in the blanks with articles before nouns modified by "last" and "next" wherever necessary. Explain your choice.
1. Chila peering round ... last corner whispered hoarsely: "If old Fishface catches us we'll need a double mort." 2. Then he wrote out a cable to Anne, telling her to get on ... next plane to Nice. 3. At the bar, Rudolph was clapped on the back by Sid Crosett, who had been Mayor of Whitby until ... last election and who was sent every four years as a delegate to the Republican convention. 4. Use it ... next time you come through. 5. We don't remember it until we say hullo to the mechanic in charge ... next morning. 6. The Islands were ... last refuge of civilization in a world gone mad. 7. Find out what happened to my daughter in her native land in ... last six months. 8. Well, ... next time don't wait until you are on the point of suffocation, she said matter-of-factly. 9. They came down ... last half mile to Clune like homing horses, Pat skipping from turf to turf like a young goat and as valuable as he had been silent on the way out. 10. He decided to re-read the play ... next day after he had thought about it for twenty-four hours. 11. I've eaten enough fish in ... last month to last me a lifetime.
Translate the following sentences from Russian into English.
1. Может быть, вы могли бы зайти ко мне на работу как-нибудь днем после обеда на будущей неделе? 2. Он знал, как следовало выполнить работу на станции, и в течение последующих нескольких дней с подозрением следил за своим помощником. 3. Подожди меня на следующей станции. 4. «Последние двенадцать месяцев я работаю, - сказал он, - но я могу потерять работу в любой момент». 5. Как заколдованный, он смотрел на оставленную на соседнем столе еду. 6. Последние гости только что ушли. 7. На будущий год я буду вести семинар по искусству кино. 8. Это была последняя капля, и совершенно неожиданно он расхохотался. 9. В течение следующих двух дней Керри предавалась самым возвышенным размышлениям. 10. На следующей неделе у Джейн слегка поднялась температура и участился пульс. 11. Когда на следующее утро Лаура услышала, что Грант собирается поехать в Скун, вместо того чтобы провести день на реке, она возмутилась. 12. После того как он закончил последнюю проверку, он бросил ручку и откинулся на спинку стула. 13. В субботу вечером он был в театре на последнем спектакле. 14. Она решила навестить мать в деревне и собиралась приехать в город на следующий день. 15. Последние годы у него появилась страсть ездить на машине по девятьсот, тысяче миль за раз (at a stretch).
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11. Insert articles before nouns modified by the adjective pronoun "other", or before "other" used as a noun wherever necessary.
1. "I have put you in ... other bedroom this time," she said preceding him up the stairs, "because the west one has been done up and it still stinks a bit." 2. Do you know what you are going to do if it turns out badly? – I’ll try … other time. 3. But he saw on … other side, nestling among the trees a white man's house; he made up his mind and rather gingerly, began to walk. 4. "You want something, Mr. Indache?" asked the bartender, who was reading a magazine at ... other end of the bar. 5. What do you plan to do if it fails? – Have ... other try. 6. The rumour which had been creeping about underground was now being openly discussed that Rhett Butler not only ran his own four boats and sold the cargoes at unheard-of prices, but bought up the cargoes of ... other boats and held them for rises in prices. 7. McCain was wailing at the shed with ... other two men who were to make the jump. 8. Than she came and sat down at ... other side of the hearth. 9. They are going to take these tablets ... other two weeks. 10. On ... other hand, her own feelings were a corrective influence. 11. The extension to the factory will mean taking on ... other twenty new employees. 12. Kate! But he was here only ... other day! 13. Sometimes he had been irritated by her calls, at ... other times moved by husbandly tenderness at the sound of the low, familiar, musical voice from a distant city, ... other side of a continent. 14. Is he cutting down on smoking? Slightly, but not enough to make any real difference. It will take him ... other two years or even more. 15. They are probably going to replace the defective part with ... other one, which is new. 16. It's encouraging him to have ... other try. 17. I am thirsty and want ...other glass of juice. 18. At 7200 feet they jumped one after ... other. 19. He spoke in a jerky, nervous fashion and with some giggling laughters in between but somehow he impressed me with fear more than ... other. 20. I'm afraid he hasn't been able to cope while all ... others have been able to. 21. There was ... other thing I liked in Mrs. Strickland. 22. That shows you what I mean. I dare say there are ... other things.
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1. ... three children came running along the desk. 2. Turn to … page 3 to read our interview. 3. It was,as I have indicated, not a success. But ... second job was a sensational success. 4. Everything they had done in ... three weeks since they had come back from the shack had made him more certain of that. 5. She had only been out of the hospital ... five weeks, but she had beaten him in ... two straight sets. 6. But on ... fifth day he took the car to ... third floor, stepped out and never came back. 7. Because she was confined to bed she could not leave the room when Mrs. Carlton's specialist arrived with ... second consultant to discuss the operation they wanted her to undergo. 8. Monte Carlo was suddenly full of kindness and charm, ... one place in the world that held sincerity. 9. And if he takes me on for ... second year, I'm to get three hundred. That means that in ... two years I’d have the best part of ... four thousand pounds. 10. The office of Professor Fox was on ... twelfth floor of the Physics Building. 11. She wondered how many others there were like ... three of them, who had gone on blindly and happily living in ignorance, taking everything life had to give, till the moment when the world was shattered apart by an illness that shut them out of life. 12. He was explaining the work that was going forward – how one was discharging, another taking in cargo, and ... third making ready for sea. 13. But on this point I was soon to be relieved, for Silver giving a little whistle, ... third man strolled up and sat down by the party. 14. In April, they will take part in ... second stage of the Mecsek Rally in Hungary. 15. Jan Wadleigh, not in Madrid, a glass in his hand, was standing talking to Eliot Steinharold and ... third man, portly in a dark suit, the face, bronzed by the sun, under a shock of iron gray hair. 16. A woman, so long and slender that she seemed as fluid as the shadows and he had to look ... second time to be sure that she was not in truth a shadow. 17. What was ... first thing you hated – can you remember? 18. The editor, sensing the social drama of the letter, put it on ... second page of the paper, in itself a startling innovation as … first two pages of the paper were always devoted to advertisements of slaves, mules, ploughs, houses for sale or rent, cures for private diseases.
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