EXERCISE 5
A．Fill in the blanks with a or the where necessary:
1. After lunch, we went for walk by sea.
2. Steam-engine was invented before internal combustion engine（内燃机）.
3. Bat, they say, judges distances by kind of echo-location.
4. He goes to church every Sunday； church he usually goes to has seats for over thousand.
5. This is most useful reference book I have on this subject.
6. We have good market in town where we buy our fruit and _______ vegetables.
7. Prison in this town is grim-looking building.
8. Youngest boy has just started going to school； eldest boy is at college.
9. Dead no longer need help. We must concern ourselves with living.
10. John became manager and secretary of the company same time.
B．Insert a or the where necessary:
1. Horse is noble animal and faithful servant of man.
2. Chess is game which requires great skill and patience.
3. The stranger went to school to complain about behaviour（行为）of one of pupils.
4. Dinner was good, but I did not enjoy speeches that came after it.
5. An important aspect in developing motivation（动力，促动因素）is setting of goals.
6. —He got bronchitis（支气管炎） and was taken to hospital. I expect they’ll send him home at end of week.
—Have you rung hospital to ask how he is?
7. Didn’t you hear that news over radio this morning?
8. Flute（长笛） is my favourite instrument.
9. We have very good train service from here to city center and most people go to work by train. You can go by bus, too, of course, but you can’t get season ticket on bus.
10. Everywhere man has cut down forests in order to cultivate ground, or to use wood as fuel or as building material.
3) 专用名词前定冠词的主要用法
a) 一般不用于单数人名前，但特指或强调时需用the。例如：
He’s the Mr. Smith I saw yesterday.
也可说：
A Mr. Smith has come here. (=A man called Smith has come here.)
复数人名前需用the，如the Johnsons, the Coopers。
b) 不用于“头衔+人名”前，但有头衔无人名时需用the，以表示特指。例如：
I saw Queen Elizabeth when l was in London。
I saw the Queen when I was in London.
c) 不用于国家、省市等名词前，但由短语组成的国名，或以s结尾的国名前需要用the。例如：
the Philippines the Netherlands
the United States the United Kingdom
注：the Ukraine, the Congo, the Sudan, the Hague为例外。
d) 用于表示国籍、民族的名词前。例如：
the British the Chinese
the Dutch the English
下列名词常用复数形式：
(the) Russians (the) Italians
(the) Arabs (the) Scots
c) 用于表示地区的名词前。例如：
the Middle East the Far East
the north of England (但是：northern England)
f) 不用于街道、建筑等名词前，但有 of 介词短语修饰时，需用the。例如：
Broadway Red Square
the Tower of London the Great Wall of China
Sam lives on l2th Street.
They changed the name of Sixth Avenue to the Avenue of Americas.
g) 用于河流、海洋、群岛、山脉、海峡、海湾名词前。例如：
the Mississippi the Atlantic
the Philippine Islands the Andes
the English Channel the Persian Gulf
但不用于单个岛屿、山峰前。例如：
Sicily (Mount)Etna
h) 不用于大学名称前，但有 of 介词短语修饰时，需用the。例如：
Yale University Oxford University
the University of North Carolina
i) 不用于杂志名词前，但用于报纸名词前。例如：
Newsweek Natural History
the Daily News the Washington Post
EXERCISE 6
A．Fill in the blanks with the where necessary:
1. Thames, Seine and Rhine are famous rivers.
2. Samuel Johnson who was a professor of Columbia University was not Samuel Johnson who was a famous English writer.
3. Andes are in South America, and Alps are in Europe.
4. Wool of which this suit is made comes from Australian sheep.
5. Wool is one of chief exports from Australia.
6. He remembers London of past and says it was gayer than London of today.
7. Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea are really part of Atlantic Ocean.
8. Macy’s (商店名) is on 34th Street between Broadway and Seventh Avenue.
9. Mr Jenkins reads Daily Telegraph but his wife reads Times.
10. Frank is a student at Liverpool University.
B．Translate the following into English:
1．大英博物馆 2．苏伊士运河 3．这两个词的区别
4．威尔逊一家 5．在第一排 6．1949年 7．在1935年秋天
EXERCISE 7
Cross out articles that are unnecessary in the following passage:
The people everywhere in the world might say, “When the strangers do not understand the customs that we follow, they are confused and do not understand what is happening.” The good manners are different in the different parts of the world. In many places, for example, accepting the gifts or anything important with the left hand shows the bad manners and even the rudeness. People with the good manners accept the important things with the both hands or at least with the right hand. Using the left hand to accept the important things shows not only the discourtesy （无礼，失礼） but also shows that the person who is accepting thinks the thing being given is worthless. In the Europe and the North America, however, the people do not follow this custom and give and receive with either hand without thinking about the meaning of what they are doing.
冠词用法讲练答案
EXERCISE 1
A. 1. a 2. an
3. an 4. an
5. an 6. an
7. a 8. an
B. 1. a new office building 2. travel agent
3. an American scientist 4. a day’s outing
5. an Indian stamp 6. a heart attack
7. an advanced country 8. an interesting play
EXERCISE 2
1. A (telephone); a 2.x; x; x
3. a; a; an; a 4.a; a; a; an
5. a; a; a; a; a 6.an; a; x; an; x; a; a
7. a; an 8.x
EXERCISE 3
A. 1. a (very bad night); a (wink)
2. an (honesty)
3. a (vision of a new and happier Europe)
4. a (holiday); a (day off); a (month)
5. an (hourly service)
6. a (great honour); a (gathering)
7. a (mountain); a (horror)
8. an (early age)
9. a (word)
10.a (boy)
B. 1. a (big problem); (not too big) a (problem)
2. a (square nose); (so handsome) a (man)
3. (However great) a (disaster)
4. (Many) a (shipwrecked sailor)
5. (Such) an (urgent need)
6. (So urgent) a (need)
7. (as lovely)a (picture)
8. (what) a (serious crisis)
9. (many) a (greater man)
10. (How serious) a (crime)
EXERCISE 4
1. the; x 2. x; The(forests)
3. x; The(nature) 4. The (education); x
7. x; the 8. the; x
EXERCISE 5
A. 1.x; a; the 2. The (steam-engine); the
3. The (bat); a 4. x; the; x; a
5. the 6. a; the; x; x
7. The(prison);a 8. The (youngest); x; the; x
B. 1.The (horse); a (noble animal); a (faithful servant)
2. a (game)
3. the (school); the (behaviour);the (pupils)
4. The (dinner); the (speeches)
5. the (setting of goals)
6. the (hospital); (at) the (end of)t he (week)
7. the (radio)
8. The (flute)
9. (have) a; the (city center); (get) a; (on) the (bus)
10. the (ground); the (wood)
EXERCISE 6
A. 1.The; the; the 2. The; the
3. The; the 4. The (wool); the
5. x; the; x 6. the; the; the; x
7. the; the 8. x; x; x
9. the; the 10. x
B. 1. the British Museum 2. the Suez Canal
3. the difference between 4. the Wilsons
these two words
5. in the first row 6. the year 1949
EXERCISE 7
(The) People everywhere … When (the) strangers … (The) Good manners … in (the) different parts … accepting (the) gifts … shows (the) bad manners … even (the) rudeness … with (the) good manners accept (the) important things with (the) both hands …to accept (the) important things shows not only (the) discourtesy … In (the) Europe and (the) North America, however, (the) people…