1. Supply the required articles for nouns in the following sentences, paying special attention to geographic names: 1. He had pronounced views on what United Slates was doing for world. 2. weather over Baltic was said to be worsening, every hour. 3. This captain, he said, had made marine history by passing through Bosphorus and Dardanelles without aid of pilot. 4. Mr. Roberts sipped cup of coffee and looked out over lake of Geneva. 5. His ship nearly sank in Pacific. 6. He told me how he had discovered statue, five hundred feed tall, buried in sand of Sahara. 7. book was about author’s wanderings in interior of Ceylon. 8. man from Sudan carried his bags to car. 9. She showed me pictures taken in Swiss Alps. 10. ’I know there are British bases in Cyprus,’ he said. 11. He said it is story of writer who goes on voyage to South Seas. 12. You oughtn’t to spend winter in London with that cough and your chest. I’ll give up my work if you’ll come for month with me to some small place on Riviera. 13. His fortieth birthday was at hand and he had never been farther west than Chicago. 14. The article says that events in Asia and now in Africa are not without their repercussion in Latin America. 15. They stood for some time, talking in quiet tones, comparing Thames with Seine. 16. This was not Paris that he had accepted thirty years ago as his spiritual home. 17. rains were moving north from Rhodesia. 18. So George, alter forming various vague plans for winter in Sicily or Island of Majorca had to admit that he had not money for it. 19. He was well-known mountaineer scaling Andes. 20. He went down road to library and came home with new book about headwaters of Amazon. 21. ’Where is he?’ asked Ann. ‘He’s in Buenos Aires.’ 22. There aren’t many sharks in Mediterranean. It is down Red Sea that you get them in numbers.
23. He retired to his hotel and sat in his shirt sleeves looking at Grand Canal.
24. Asia Minor is part of Asia between Black Sea and Mediterranean Sea.
25. They stayed in Venice for fortnight.
26. She was going on cruise down Adriatic.
27. You haven’t come back to very cheery England.
28. He was staring out across Nile at distant hills.
29. And several hours later he stepped out upon soil of Newfoundland.
30. The firm made loans to Argentine and Brazil.
1. Yes, he is.
2. He wakes up early, gets ready and goes to school. There he spends eight hours studying hard so he doesn't have to do too much homework. At home he relaxes by watching TV and using the computer. He walks his dog in the evening and then goes to bed at half past nine. Twice a week he goes to football practice after school and at the weekends he just relaxes at home.
3. He has time for football practice, homework, school work and his dog.
4. He doesn't have time for his friends.
5. Yes, he has. He's got two rules. He never watches TV in the morning and he works hard at school so he doesn't have to do a lot of homework.
6. He has time for almost everything, but not enough time to meet up with his friends.
7. Yes, he can. At the weekends he can stay in bed all day and watch TV.