Insert proper articles where necessary into the texts below
- This topic is empty.
Viewing 1 post (of 1 total)
- AuthorPosts
- 26/12/2020 at 19:58 #45677Main AditorKeymaster
- Insert proper articles where necessary into the texts below:
- a) It was raining heavily as I was walking towards … Metro There were very few people in … street. … road was slippery. Just as I was crossing … road near … Metro station, … car came round … corner. It was travelling very fast, at … speed of 80-90 miles. It was clear … driver was having difficulty in controlling it. Suddenly it hit … lamp-post and turned over. At once I ran to … car. I tried to help … driver. But I could do very little. … man’s eyes were closed, there’s … lot of … blood on his face.
- b) … Pygmalion was … king of … Cyprus and … famous sculptor. One day he took … piece of … marble and began to sculpt … statue of … young woman. When … statue was finished, it was more beautiful than any woman in … world. … marble girl seemed to be almost alive. … Pygmalion looked at … beautiful statue … day after … day, and soon he fell in … love with He brought … flowers to … statue and often kissed it. Sometimes it seemed to him that … statue moved and became warm. But he understood that it was only … marble statue.
- c) When in 1483 Edward died, his eldest son was to become … king. But before it happened … prince was taken with his younger brother to … prison and they were never seen again. Richard became … king of … England. … people said that he had murdered his younger nephews. Shakespeare’s play «Richard III» and many history books show Richard as … cruel king, but he lived in … cruel times, and many king who are not known as cruel did …
same things. It is … murder of … prince and his brother that make … people angry. But was it Richard who murdered them? Nobody knows.
- d) At … dinner … beautiful girl looks at … young man sitting at another table. They smile at each other. It is … end of… dinner. … People get from their tables. Will … young man come up to … girl? Yes, he is walking to her. Then suddenly when he is near … girl turns round and walks quickly This is … beginning of anti-smoking advertisement in … British cinemas. As she walks from … dining room alone … girl turns to us and says, «He smells like … old ash-tray». … British government has … campaign against smoking. In … film they say, «Smoking makes you unattractive».
- e) Once upon … time there lived … noble lord and his lady. They had … little son. He was seven years old and his name was Philip. … boy had no brothers and sisters and so felt lonely. He often ran after … butterflies in … beautiful gardens. … butterflies and … flowers were his only friends. One afternoon Philip was missing, and nobody knew where he was. … servants were sent along all … roads, but they came … home without hearing anything of Philip.
- AuthorPosts
Viewing 1 post (of 1 total)
- You must be logged in to reply to this topic.