C) Put a suitable article into the blanks: 1. My neighbour is ……….. photographer; let’s ask him for ……….. advice about colour films.
2. I had ……… very bad night; I didn’t sleep ………. wink.
3. He is ………… vegeterian; you won’t get ………. meat at his house.
4. ………… youngest boy has just started going to ……….. school; ………. eldest boy is at ………… college.
5. I went to ………… school to talk to ………… headmistress. I persuaded her to let Ann give up …………. gymnastics and take ………. ballet lessons instead.
6. There was ………. knock on ………. door. I opened it and found ………… small dark man in ………. check overcoat and ……… soft hat.
7. - Are John and Mary ……….. cousins?
- No, they aren’t ………. cousins; they are ……….. brother and ……… sister.
8. ……….. postman’s little boy says that he’d rather be ………… dentist than ……….. doctor, because …………. dentists don’t get called out at ……….. night.
9. - Would you like to hear ………… story about ……….. Englishman, …………. Irishman and ………. Scotsman?
- No. I’ve heard ……….. stories about ……….. Englishmen, ………… Irishmen and ………… Scotsmen before and they are all ……….. same.
10. “………. modern burglars don’t hide under ………. beds.” said her daughter.
11. ……….. most of ………… stories that ………… people tell about ……….. Irish aren’t true.
12. Like many women, she loves ……….. tea parties and ………… gossip.
13. On ……….. Sundays my father stays in …………. bed till ten o’clock, reading ………. Sunday papers.
14. I have ……….. little money left; let’s have dinner in ……….. restaurant.
15. - I hope you have ………… lovely time and ………… good weather.
- But I’m not going for ………… holiday; I’m going on …………. business.
16. During ………. meal he gives her ………. instructions about ………. garden and she tells him ………. village gossip.
17. My mother goes to …………church in …………. morning, and in ………… afternoon goes to visit ………… friends.
On a clear Sunday morning, on the 18th May 1980, Mount St Helens 1) erupted after 123 years of silence. The eruption was the deadliest volcanic 2) event in the history of the United States. At exactly 8 32am, an 3) explosion so huge it was heard hundreds of miles away, occurred. Tons of red hot 4) lava emerged from the volcano's 5) crater and raced down the mountainside. Every building within a 600 m radius 6) was destroyed. Over 1.5 million tons of poisonous 7) gases were released into the atmosphere. 8) Ash clouds darkened the sky and 9) blocked out the sun. Geologists and volcanologists did not 10) predict the disaster.