Fill in the blanks with articles before geographic names if necessary.
1. ... Manhattan is the name of an island which forms the heart of New York. The island is 13 miles long, 2 miles wide and lies at the mouth of ... Hudson River. East of it runs ... East River, which divides the island from ... Long Island. 2. ... Switzerland was an island washed on one side by the waves of thunder around ... Gorizia and another by the cataracts along ... Somme and ... Aisne. 3. Do you know what it's like when there's sixty degrees of frost in ... Arctic—and it still doesn't freeze? 4. In 1919 I happened to be in ... Chicago on my way to ... Far East. 5. "She came from ... Bavaria," she said. 6. On the pleasant shore of ... French Riviera, about half way between ... Marseilles and the Italian Border, stands a large, proud, rose-colored hotel. 7. I thought if the test turned out to be good I could take it to ... California with me. 8. I had, indeed, a mind to see ... city of Peking, which I had heard so much of. 9. After all it was the completest thing, and perhaps the deadest in ... London of today. 10. He had agencies in many of the islands of ... Pacific. 11. Descending to another ledge she reached a low curved wall and looked down seven hundred feet to ... Mediterranean sea. 12. He came to ... Seine, crossed it, and entered one of the less reputable quarters of ... Paris. 13. The Bancrofts are at present living at their summer home on ... Lake Meticito. 14. The region around ... Great Lakes has not an excessive humidity. 15. It may be in ... Coney Island or ... Pelham Bay, butI'll find a room. 16. I haven’t had a thing since breakfast. Just got in from ... Rock Island. 17. They knew that Davidson had worked in ... Canaries for five years before he met his wife. 18. Behind ... Pyrenees too, the way to peace is through military detente in ... Europe. 19. It was a matter of chance that I should have rented a house in one of the strangest communities in ... North America. 20. They settled down in a handsome villa in ... Tyrol and in a short time became conspicuous in the social life of the province. 21. The church stood in ... ancient village in ... Devonshire. 22. Go to ... Hague, or to ... Amsterdam. 23. He has his National Trust and preservation councils for just about every hill and valley south of ... Caledonian Canal. 24. ... Victoria Falls on the northwest border of ... Rhodesia is a mile wide and 420 feet high. 25. They reached the place of destination that evening and next morning they saw the sunrise in ... Saint Gotthard Pass. 26. ... Moscow is a city of museums. It was in ... Moscow that the first museum collection was formed in ... medieval Russia. 27. Most of the Slavic peoples now in ... Balkan Peninsula arrived in the 6th and 7th centuries. 28. ... White Nile River originates in ... Lake Victoria. 29. ... Jordan River and ... Dead Sea are on the Israel border. Steep cliffs rise on both sides of ... Jordan Valley.
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Fill In the blanks with articles before miscellaneous proper names if necessary.
1. When they put out from the port in a hired launch it was already summer dusk and lights were breaking out in spasms along the rigging of ... Levante. 2. Well, tomorrow then. I'm living at ... Chelsea now. 3. On the other bank of ... Potomac lies ... Arlington National Cemetery, where ... President Kennedy was buried. 4. Tom and Miss Baker sat at either end of the long couch and she read aloud to him from ... Saturday Evening Post. 5. Sensation at ... London airport. Attempt to smuggle 12 jewels worth three quarters of a million. 6. His own ideas of a riotous holiday meant picnicking on the grass of ... Green Park with his family and half a dozen paper bags full of food. 7. After that, if the night was mellow, I strolled down ... Madison Avenue past ... old Murray Hotel, and over ... 33d Street to ... Pennsylvania Station. 8. Why, yes, didn't you know that? Why, he’s manager of ... Grand Opera House. 9. Then still keeping a hundred yards behind, we followed into ... Oxford Street and so down ... Regent Street. 10. It was dose on midnight when a man crossed ... Place de la Concorde. 11. I graduated from ... New Haven in 1915, just a quarter of a century after my father. 12. I meant it might be nice for you to take a house in ... London for the spring season—I know a dove of a house in ... Talbot Square you could get, furnished. 13. ... Jefferson Memorial was built in memory of the third President of ... USA, Thomas Jefferson, who was also the author of the Declaration of Independence. 14. ... White House is the President's residence. 15. At half past six on a Friday evening in January, ... Lincoln International Airport, Illinois, was functioning, though with difficulty. 16. He turned on the radio. Mozart, unworried and spring-like, accompanied them as far as ... Bronx. 17. Hurstwood wrote her one morning asking her to meet him in ... Jefferson Park, ... Monroe Street. 18. He remembered having seen her sitting in ... Botanical Gardens waiting for Bosinney. 19. This was in ... Broadway Central, which was then one of the most important hotels in the city. 20. She asked Charles if he would take her to ... National Gallery. 21. The girls of ... Lotus Club wondered what had become of him and worried Jan with questions. 22. Across ... Fifth Avenue, through ... Madison Square by the winding paths, east on ... Twenty Third Street and down ... Third Avenue wound the long serpentine company. 23. He has been to ... Eton and ... Oxford and he doesn't forget to let you know it. 24. I presume that it was committed in the cloakroom of ... House of Commons. 25. "But I happen to know most of the members of ... Racquet Club," he said. 26. From the instant you land at ... El Dorado International Airport, you feel a privileged guest in the warm respective city. 27. And feeling that he must finish with it now, he took a cab into ... West End. 28. Then he sat in ... Bryant Park, a block away, waiting. 29. Well, I am connected with ... Wellington—the new hotel on ... Broadway. 30. ... National Theatre said on ... Tuesday it would close one of its three auditoriums. 31. The conversation was in ... German, for it developed that he had been educated at ... Gottingen. 32. The largest and tallest among the buildings was ... Capitol with its great Hall of Representatives and Senate Chamber. 33. I know a girl who studies ... French and she pays 17 shillings an hour. And I'm going to take lessons in ... English language, which is my native language, so I won't give you more than a shilling. 34. He had an idea that anything accepted by a paper was published immediately, and as he had sent the manuscript in on ... Friday, he expected it to come out ... following Sunday. 35. Every morning her mother had read two newspapers from cover to cover: ... Daily Telegraph and ... Daily Mirror. 36. Approaching ... Malta Street, ... Soho, Soames thought with wonder of those seven years at ... Brighton. 37. And he went back into ... City to do what still lay before him. 38. He stood by the window of the sitting-room which gave view over ... Hyde Park. 39. He leaned on the ship's rail as the tugs nosed ... Victoria into the wharf. 40. There were tearful scenes at ... Gatwick Airport. 41. Request weather and runway information—... Detroit Metropolitan and ... Lincoln International Airport. 42. My advice is to leave this hotel—by way of the bar if you want. Go to ... Chambord, or if you need a lot of service, go over to ... Majestic. 43. They drove off eastward, down ... Strand and into a little side street, by ... Charing Cross. 44. He turned off ... Avenue de l'Opera up ... Rue des Pyramides, through the traffic of ... Rue de Rivole and through a dark gate into ... Tuileries. 45. He spoke now of the lectures which an English poet was giving at ... Auditorium. 46. I am a marine biologist. I took a degree in it at ... Cambridge. 47. They have a nice home in ... High Street. 48. He paid careful attention to the announcements in ... Times. 49. You want to see ... Lincoln Park and ... Michigan Boulevard. They are putting up great buildings there. 50. It must have been ... Harward Club. 51. ... Savoy is a luxury hotel in ... Strand in London. 52. Dick was about to retort by commenting on the extraordinary suits of a cut and pattern fantastic enough to have sauntered down ... Bealy Street on ... Sunday—when an explanation was coming. 53. Charlie was a youngish man of thirty-five, graduate of ... Stanford University, member of ... Nile Club and ... Unity Club, a conservative speaker for ... Republican Party during campaigns, in short, a rising man in every way.
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127. Fill in the blanks with articles wherever necessary
Australia
Australia is ... fifth and smallest of ... continents, three-quarters ... size of ... Europe, ... quarter ... size of … Africa and ... sixth ... size of ... Asia or ... Americas. On ... other hand, it is by far ... largest island in ... world, with ... coastline of 12,200 miles and ... overall area of almost three million square miles, which
makes it slightly smaller than ... United States and about twenty-four times ... size of ... British Isles.
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Geologically, Australia dates back at least 2,000 million years, and ... poet who described it as "... land as old as ... time" was not far wrong. Some people believe that it was once ... part of ... Antarctic continent.
There is also ... theory that until ... few million years ago it was ... part of ... great land which reached ... north to ... Asia and ... east as far as ... New Zealand. ... skeletal remains indicate that at one time Australia wasinhabited by ... giant land fauna, for example, ... kangaroos and ... emus up to three times their present size, and ... lizards up to twenty feet long. ... country's vegetation in those days was very much as it is now.
In its present shape more than ... third of Australia lies within ... tropics. ... Cape York, its northern tip, is in more or less ... same latitude as ... far south of ... India and ... central islands of ... Philippines. ... southern tip of ... Tasmania has ... same latitude as ... Portland (... Maine), ... Black Sea and ... Vladivostok. Because of this there is much variety in ... physical character and ... climate. It is ... rather flat country with ... not very high ranges near ... eastern coast. ... highest peak, ... Mount Kosciusco, reaches only 7,3l6 feet, ... quarter of ... height of ... Mount Everest. Much of ... country's interior is almost rainless, and as ... result most of ... people live on ... east and ... south-east coasts. ... large cities such as ... Sydney and ... Melbourne are crowded with ... people but ... average number of ... inhabitants to ... square mile in Australia is only four.
Fill in the blanks with articles wherever necessary paying particular attention to the use of articles before geographic names. Retell the text. Describe the geography of another country.
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