25/2/2016 Upperintermediate/advanced articles exercises Upperintermediate/advanced articles exercises by Viv Quarry (vivquarry.com) 1. Fill the gaps with 'a', 'an', 'the' or 'X' (no article) Frank Crawford is an American citizen. He is also an FBI agent (and has an ID card to prove it) whose qualifications include an M.A. and a Ph.D. and he has an I.Q. of 160. Because his father was an M.P. in X England and his mother, an Italian, worked as a G.P. there, Frank often sees things from a European perspective. He strongly supports the idea of a united Europe. He was recently in London for a oneday conference on X organised crime, and he gave a speech which lasted an hour (You can get a copy of his speech by sending an s.a.e. to the address below.) When in London he always stays at a hotel in X Holland Park, near X Oxford Street, where he always eats an onion sandwich for X breakfast. When Frank inherited a fortune from an uncle recently, he used it to found a university and buy an xray machine for a hospital There was a collision between a car and a cyclist at the crossroads near X my house early in the morning. The cyclist was taken to X hospital with X concussion. The driver of the car was treated for X shock X witnesses say that the car was going at X seventy miles an hour My aunt lived on the ground floor of an old house on the River Thames. She was very much afraid of X burglars and always locked the house before she went to X bed. She also took the precaution of looking under the bed to see if a burglar was hiding there 2. Five of the following sentences are correct, some need 'the'. Either put √ or indicate where the definite article (the) should go a) Martina is learning to play violin. X the violin b) Jennifer is learning to play chess. √ c)'Is this Oxford road?' said lorry driver. X the lorry driver d) John works in a shop in Park Lane. √ e) This book consists of quotations from great philosophers. √ f) We reached our destination at sunset. √ g) Terry spent summer climbing in Alps. X the Alps h) After they had completed their work in prison, bricklayers moved to another site. X the prison / the bricklayers i) Mr. Watt refused even to visit home his relatives wanted to put him in. X the home j) History was his favourite subject at school. √ 3. Put 'a', 'an', 'the', 'my', 'his', 'her', 'our', 'your' or 'their' in the gaps if necessary a) Ask the woman in front of you to take off her hat b) Someone threw an egg which struck the speaker on the shoulder c) He fell down a flight of steps and broke his leg d)You'll strain your eyes if you read in X bad light e) He was a very tall man with X dark hair and a small beard, but I couldn't see his eyes because he was wearing X dark glasses (adapted from The Nelson Proficiency workbook by Susan Morris and Alan Stanton (Nelson) and A practical English grammar exercises 1 (third edition) by A.J. Thomson and A.V. Martinet (Ox http://www.vivquarry.com/wkshts/Articlesexuppadvans.html 1/1