Fill in the blanks with the definite article in the generic meaning if necessary. Comment on the noun it is used with.
1. For centuries very litt!e was known about ... American lobster. 2. ... heart understands when it is confronted with contrasts. 3. He recalled that ... atom bomb was the fruit of research and development within the framework of the Manhattan project. 4. On the top of this ... average teacher is not working ten hours a week on top of their stretched working hours of a decade ago. 5. From a social standpoint ... man of science does not exist. 6. ... soul is distinct from ... body, its senses are from the mind: it is not part of the absolute, for the absolute can have no parts. 7. That is because ... public isn't really interested in ... theatre. 8. The SDP – Liberal Alliance is, vote for vote, a greater threat to ... Conservatives than to Labour. 9. If ... Belgians decide to delay Cruise they would be the second of the five NATO basing countries to do so. 10. This is just one example of the hundreds of crimes perpetrated by ... Israelis in the south of Lebanon today. 11. ... doctor oughtn't to sin against his professional etiquette. 12. Had he forgotten that Arnold Jackson had a tongue of silver, a tongue by which he had charmed vast sums out of ... credulous public? 13. ... man crossed .... space in metallic cylinders that twisted time and space. 14. Who but ... English would fill Covent Garden to listen to an aged prima donna without a voice? Who but ... English would pay to see dancers so decrepit that they can hardly put one foot before the other? 15. In the light of the world's attitude toward ... woman and her duties the nature of Carrie's mental state deserves consideration. 16. But the Prime Minister should recognize that he is again face to face with a section of ... working class which, having learned through bitter experience in the past, now knows how to put up a fight. 17. I always think it a pity that fashion having decided that the doings of ... aristocracy are no longer a proper subject for serious fiction. 18. I reflected that there must be a bowl of goose grease on most farms; it was the all-purpose lubricant and liniment for ... man and beast. 19. These feel as much as ... poet though they have not the same power of expression. 20. The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics is a socialist state of ... whole people, expressing the will and interestsof ... workers, peasants, intelligentsia. 21. He had the feeling that I have noticed in some Americans that America is a difficult and even dangerous place in which ... European cannot safely be left to find his way aboutby himself. 22. The trouble is, once the weeds are gone biologists don't know what will happen or where ... carp will migrate. 23. So long, also, will the atmosphere of this realm work its desperate results in the soul of... man. 24. What absurd fellows you are both of you! I wonder who it was defined ... man as a rational animal. 25. ... Italian public supports the peaceful Soviet initiatives, the newspaper points out. 26. Founded by ... French, ruled for a few decades by … Spanish and finely fought by ... Americans, it's a city of contrasts. 27. Milk is very nice, especially with a drop of brandy in it, but ... domestic cow is only too glad to be rid of it. 28. When ... Tories say ... class struggle no longer exists they hope to persuade ... workers not to fight for their just demands. 29. A United Nations force spokesman in the area said that a man was found dead near the village with a bullet in his head after ... Israelis left. 30. She came out of her sleep, the cough tearing her again and again till it seemed impossible that ... human body could endure so much. 31. ... artist can express everything. 32. There is no firm evidence for either of these explanations for the end of ... dinosaur.
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Mrs. Barthwick: You ... Liberals and ... Conservatives, you're all alike. You ought to join hands.
Barthwick: You're talking nonsense. How is it possible for ... Liberals and ... Conservatives to join hands, as you call it? Why, the very essence of ... Liberal is to trust in ... people.
Mrs. Barthwick: Now, John, eat your breakfast. As if there were any real difference between you and ... Conservatives. All ... upper classes have ... same interests to protect, and ... same principles.
Barthwick: Indeed. (Heavily.) I am ... Liberal! Drop ... subject, please!
Supplementary task. Answer the question why Mrs. Barthwick, wife of a wealthy man, says that there is no real difference between the Liberals and the Conservatives. Is that really so? What do you know about the political parties of England?
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