Fill in the blanks with articles if necessary paying particular attention to the use of articles before names of materials. Tell the dialogue in indirect speech.
At ... dinner table ... last night Mrs. Shannon said, "I hope you'll all appreciate this steak. It may be ... last steak you'll have in this house until ... prices of ... beef go down."
"How much did you pay for it?" her husband asked.
"I'm not going to tell you," Mrs. Shannon said. "You'll think I shouldn't have bought it."
"Maybe we should try ... horse meat," her son Steve said. "I’ve heard that it tastes as good as ... beef, and it's much cheaper."
Steve's sister Sharon was shocked. "Would you eat ... horse?" she asked. "I wouldn't. I'd rather become ... vegetarian."
"So would I," her grandmother agreed. "To me, eating ... horse would be like eating ... friend. But then, I don't suppose you ... young people, have ever known any horses, really."
"Did you ever own ... horse, Grandma?" Michael' asked.
"No, but I remember when our Milkman had ... horse. Every morning ... milk wagon stopped in front of our door. Whenever I was up early enough, I used to go and talk to ... horse. Sometimes I gave him ... sugar."
"I would have liked that," her granddaughter said. "But there aren't any milk wagons nowadays."
"That's right," Steve said."... people get their milk at ... store or out of ... milk machines."
"Most people do," Mr. Shannon said. "But there are ... trucks that deliver ... milk in some places. They don't come every day, though. They come about once ... week."
"Did you read that article in ... last night's newspaper?" Mrs. Shannon asked. "It was about all ... things that ... milk trucks deliver these days."
"I read it," her husband said. "It seems that ... milk trucks now deliver ... bread, ... butter, and ... eggs, as well as ... milk and ... cream."
“Why?” Sharon asked.
''Because ... milk companies lose ... money if they deliver nothing but ... milk," Mr. Shannon answered. "People don't want to pay ... high prices to have their milk delivered. ... milk prices are lower in ... stores."
"You can even buy ... cakes and ... pies from some of ... milk trucks now," Mrs. Shannon added. "Some even sell ... powder, ... towels, and ... cosmetics. You can buy all those from ... milkman who comes to your door."
"I wish they'd do that around here," Michael said. "It would be like having ... traveling store."
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“Maybe they will,” his father said. "The drivers seem to like it. One driver's sales have gone up thirty-five percent since he started delivering those other things to his milk customers."
"It's profitable. I guess," Sharon said. "But I still think it would be nicer to have ... milk wagon with ... horse."
67. Fill in the blanks with articles if necessary. Underline the attributes which determine the use of the indefinite article with one line, the use of the "zero article'' with two lines.
1. "He is an abolitionist, no doubt," observed Gerald to John Wilkes. "But in an Orangeman, when a principle comes up against ... Scottish tightness, the principle fares ill." 2. This certainty of the morrow gave ... zest and ... enthusiasm to ... life and the County people enjoyed ... life with ... heartiness that Ellen could never understand. 3. Her vanity leaped to ... aid of her desire to believe, making ... belief ... certainty. 4. I am telling you … truth. There is ... fatality about all physical and intellectual distinction, the sort of ... fatality that seemed to dog through ... history the faltering steps of kings. 5. For the first time since she had come here, ... peace no longer frightened her, ... solitude no longer oppressed her. 6. Larry was strong enough to refuse to sacrifice for Isabel's sake ... life that he thought was ... life for him. 7. And there was ... peace, ... peace and ... quieting majesty of the scene before him. 8. His son, the most capable of them all, had ... hollowness in him. 9. There seemed to be ... sadness in her and he wanted to talk to her about his wife and ... bitter loneliness in his heart. 10. ... rage inside him welled; his body trembled in ... anger. 11. ... grossest indecency would not have fallen on the ears of those three women with such a shock. 12. There were ...pain and bewilderment in her face, ... bewilderment of a pampered child who has always had her own way for the asking and who now, for the first time, was in contact with ... unpleasantness of ... life. 13. I dwelt in ... pleasure as a fish lives in water. To fall asleep was ... pleasure; to wake, to stretch, to lace one's shoes, to walk down ... street was ... pleasure. Merely to exist was... pleasure. To speak was ... pleasure equalled only by ... silence. 14. That must be what ... despair looks like, she said to herself, but it's more than ... despair, it is ... despair and ... exaltation together. 15. He mounted and pedalled off into ... darkness towards the stables. 16. When he stood on the platform and faced his audience seriously, frankly, but with ... engaging diffidence you could not but realize that he was giving himself up to his task with ... complete earnestness. 17. M-me Chiron regarded him with ... steady graveness in her deep blue eyes. 18. They heard a voice, Davidson's voice, through the wooden partition. It went on with ... monotonous, earnest insistence. 19. Kitty could not easily meet the eyes which rested on her with ... ironical kindness. 20. As I lounged in the Park or strolled down Piccadilly, I used to look at everyone who passed me, and wonder, with ... mad curiosity, what sort of lives they led. 21. He looked at Mason with ... certain impatience. "What are you going to do then?" 22. It only she could find what lay behind ... moodiness that settles over him at times. 23. We both know ... fear, and ... loneliness, and ... very great distress. 24. Anything to do with the word "hammer" meant ... sudden, extreme danger. 25. They have ... little confidence in Rome, none in the provinces. 26. But ... beauty, ... real beauty ends where an intellectual expression begins. 27. The Italian knew that the Patriarchate had ... total confidence in the padrone. 28. ... solemn peacefulness seemed to reign in that lobby. An air of ... calmness and ... resignation, of ... gentle sadness pervaded the room. 29. In her face were too sharply blended the delicate features of her mother, a Coast aristocrat of ... French descent, and the heavy ones of her florid Irish father. 30. These thoughts gave him ... enormous pleasure, bringing with them a fine feeling of ... cunning and ... strength. 31. He shook Jan's hand with ... brisk, businesslike manner. 32. There's ... serenity over her that I've never met in anyone before. 33. I may be wrong, but there is ... mystery here, ... soft, sure mystery that is understood and only remains ... mystery because I want it so. 34. He went to all ... places where ... fashionable congregate. 35. It seemed incredible but ... incredible was commonplace in these times of ... madness. 36. Three things will never be believed - ... true, ... probable and ... logical. 37. "The refreshments are on us," ... plural did not escape me. 38. He saw ... future for himself sitting on hotel-room beds trying to get his thoughts straight. 39. Of what use to be reminded of ... joys of ... past when your life had shrivelled to a husk? 40. They talked of ... future once more, ... future that now gleamed rosilyat the end of the year.
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