1. Insert the articles where necessary.

1. We have ______ beautiful garden. ______ garden is full of roses.

2. I‘d like ______ glass of orange juice, please.

3. Can you give me ______ envelope, please?

4. Is there _____ post office near here?

5. They are at _____ cinema.

6. My brother is in _____ classroom.

7. Would you like _____ hamburger?

8. Selena has got _____ cat. – What is _____ cat’s name?

9. ______ school is very cold. Hasn’t it got _____ central heating system? – It has, but _____ central heating is broken down.

2. Fill in the gaps with the articles.

a) My mother is ______ English teacher. I am ______ student. When I get home from school, I watch _____ programs on TV. That’s _____ best part of my day. _____ programs I watch are for ______ children. I am ______ child, so I think they are funny.

I’m ______ little excited because it s ______ Friday. There are ______ lot of good shows on TV today. ______ one that I watch is at 3.30. It’s about ______ animals. Also, I’m excited because my mother is making ______ rice for dinner.

Later, after eating dinner and doing my homework, I go to my room and read ______ book for 30 minutes. Then, I turn off ______ light and go to ______ bed.

b) Moving to ______ United States was ______ most exciting thing I have ever done. I moved last year to ______ New York. ______ New York is ______ beautiful city, full of ______ adventure. In fact, I met ______ famous actor on ______ bus yesterday!

Today, I have ______ job interview at ______ financial company. ______ company has ______ offices all over ______ world. I’m not sure that I have ______ skills to get hired. I hope so. ______ company’s office is on ______ main Street. That’s ______ same street my friend works on.

If I get hired, I could meet him after ______ work for drinks. That would be great. He’s from ______ Scotland. He works 8 hours ______ day, 5 days ______ week.

I have two brothers. One, ______ Greg, is still in ______ college, and ______ other, ______, Mike, has already graduated. Mike is ______ kind of guy that is very serious. I don’t remember ______ last time I saw him. It may have been in ______ August. He was wearing ______ red sweater, it matched his ______ red hair.

After I have ______ dinner, I usually wash ______ dishes. My wife hates doing it. I waste a lot of ______ water when I do it. That’s bad for ______ environment, I think.

We live near ______ sea. Most ______ houses in this area are expensive.

WORDS AND EXPRESSIONS

accurately (adv)
agriculture (n)
algae (sing. – alga) (n)
application (n)
binomial (adj)
breeding (n)
catalogue (v)
cell (n)
chromosome (n)
classify (v)
contain (v)
cultivate (v)
decade (n)
describe (v)
differentiation (n)
dominant (adj)
edible (adj)
effort (n)
environmental management
enzyme (n)
epigenetics (n)
exploit (v)
expression (n)
facilitate (v)
foods (n)
forerunner (n)
function (n)
fungi (sing. – fungus) (n)
gene (n)
genetic modification
grass (n)
growth (n)
herbalism (n)
horticulture (n)
identify (v)
image (n)
importance (n)
maintenance of biodiversity
mechanism (n)
medicinal (adj)
medieval physic garden		средневековый аптекарский сад
metabolism (n)
molecular genetic analysis
monastery (n)
multidisciplinary (adj)
mycologist (n)
phycologist (n)
plant (n)
prehistory (n)
primary (adj)
propagation (n)
protein (n)
raw materials
relationship (n)
remain (v)
reproduction (n)
respectively (adv)
structure (n)
synthesis (n)
systematics (n)
textile (n)
tissue (n)
topic (n)
vascular plant

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