The use of articles

Exercise 1. Change the nouns into the plural. Use some (any) where neces­sary and make the other necessary changes.

1. A kitten likes to play. 2. A violet does not smell so sweet as a lily of the valley. 3. Have you bought an apple for your child? 4. Here is a letter to be posted. 5. He ate a spoonful of broth and a sandwich. 6. I must buy a postcard. 7. She did not bring me a magazine, she brought me a newspaper. 8. She made a step towards him. 9. In the bedroom a candle was burning. 10. Did she ever lend you a book?

Exercise 2. Insert articles where necessary. (Articles with class-nouns.)

1. Not ____ word was spoken in ____ parlour. (Caldwell) 2. ____ room itself was filling up, so was ____ staircase.. (Snow) 3. I think that ____ man's life is worth saving, whoever it belongs to. (Shaw) 4. Though ____ earth was cold and wet, ____ sky was clear and ____ , sun rose bright and beautiful. (Dickens) 5. He made them provide not one car, but half ____ dozen. (Snow) 6. ____ compass was inven­ ted in ancient China. 7. Not ____ word was spoken, not____sound was made. (Dickens) 8. ____ sky outside ____ window was already dark, ____ secretaries had gone home, all was quiet, (Snow) 9. Ed­ward remained ____ week at ____ cottage. (Austen) 10. I tell you, he's as brave as ____ man can reasonably be. (Snow) 11. After that they would meet, perhaps, two or three times ____ year. (Galsworthy) 12. Dinny looked up at ____ house and suddenly saw ____ face in ____ window of ____ dining-room. (Galsuorthy) 13. You know I never cared fo r____ drama. 14. "It is not ____ large house," I said. "We don't want ____ large house." (Jerome K. Jerome) 15. He looks older than he is, as ____ dark men often do. (Dickens) 16. Roger looked at him and, without ____ word, took out his wallet and gave him ____ ten-shilling note. (Snow) 17. As ____ man sows, so shall he reap. 18. This morn­ing ____ tobacconist was at his door. (Bennett) 19. It was Sunday afternoon, and ____ sun, which had teen shining now for several hours, was beginning to warm ____ earth. (Murdoch) 20. I have ____ long story to tell you. Come and sit down on ____ sofa and let us have ____ comfortable chat. (Marryat) 21. ____ arm in ____ arm, they walked toward home. (/. Shaw) 22. It was ____ cottage built like ____ mansion, having ____ central hall with ____ , wooden gallery running round it, and ____ rooms no bigger than ____ closets. (Hardy) 23. And what ____ beautiful moth there is over there on ____ wall. (Murdoch) 24. She had ____ key of her own. (Conan Doyle) 25. He was ____ short, plump man with ____ very white face and ____ very white hands. It was rumoured in London that he powdered them like ____ woman. (Greene) 26. ____ old couldn't help ____ young... (Galsworthy) 27. To him she would always be ____ loveliest woman in ____ world. (Maugham) 28. ____ strongest have their hours of depression. (Dreiser) 29. Her aunt, in ____ straw hat so broad that it covered her to ____ very edges of her shoulders, was standing below with two gardeners behind her. (Galsworthy) 30. I am afraid I addressed ___ wrong person.. (Collins) 31. They must have had very fair notions of ____ artistic and ____ beautiful. (Jerome K. Je­rome) 32. ____ rich think they can buy anything. (Snow) 33. ____ room has three doors; one on ____ same side as ____ fireplace, near ____ corner, leading to ____ best bedroom. (Shaw) 34. My thousand ____ year is not merely ____ matter of dirty banknotes and jaundiced guineas... but, it may be, health to ____ drooping, strength to ____ weak, consolation to ____ sad. (Ch. Bronte) 35. Thank you, Stephen: I knew you would give me ____ right advice. (Shaw) 36. Sometimes... visitors rang ____ wrong bell. (Bennett) 37. My family came from hereabouts some generations back. I just wanted to have ____ look at ____ place, and ask you ____ question or two. (Galsworthy) 38. ____ woman will only be the equal of ____ man when she earns her living in ____ same way that he does. (Maugham) 39. He arri­ved half ____ hour before dinner time, and went up to ____ school­ room a ____ top of ____ house, to see ____ children. (Galsworthy) 40. You will see him ____ steady character yet. I am sure of it. There is something in ____very expression of his face that tells me so. (Marryat) 41. Far away in ____ little street there is ____ poor house. One of ____ windows is open and through it I can see ____ woman seated at ____ table. She is ____ seamstress. (Wilde) 42. ____ man who entered was short and broad. He had black hair, and was wearing ____ grey flannel trousers with ____ red woolen shirt, open at ____ neck, whose collar he carried outside ____ lapels of his dark tweed jacket. (Clark) 43. Believe me, when ____ woman really makes up her mind to marry man nothing on God's earth can save him. (Maugham) 44. I stopped... still uncertain of myself and whether I was saying ____ right thing. (Du Maurier) 45. Then it was night and he was awake, standing in ____ street, looking up at ____ dark windows of ____ place where he lived, ____ front door was locked and there was no one in ____ house. (Saroyan) 46. I believe I can tell ____ very moment I began to love him. (Galsworthy) 47. We are told that ____ heart of ____ man is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked. (Shaw) 48. "I must do it," said Adam; "it's ____ right thing." (Eliot) 49. Mr. Boythorn lived in pretty house with ____ lawn, in front, ____ bright flower garden at ____ side and ____ kitchen-garden in ____ rear, enclosed with ____ wall. ____ house was real old house. (Dickens) 50. bartender was ____ pale little man in ____ vest and apron, with ____ pale, hairy arms and ____ long, nervous nose. (/. Shaw) 51. ____ face to ____ face, he was as warm and easy-natured as he had ever been. (Snow) 52. I had not yet learnt how contradictory is human nature; I did not know how much pose there is in ____ sincere, how much baseness in ____ noble, or how much goodness in ____ reprobate. (Maugham) 53. During ____ country house parties one day is very like another. ____ men put on ____ same kind of variegated tie, eat ____ same breakfast, tap ____ same barometer, smoke ____ same pipes and kill ____ same birds. (Galsworthy) 54. Almost at ____ very moment when she had returned Aileen had appeared. (Dreiser) 55. ____ old man quitted ____ house secretly at ____ same hour as before. (Dickens) 56. We are told that ____ wicked shall be punished. (Shaw) 57. ____ arm in ____ arm we walked on, sometimes stumbling over ____ hump of earth or catching our feet in ____ rabbit-holes. (Hansford Johnson) 58. Clare was ____ most vivid member of ____ family. She had dark fine shingled hair and ____ pale expressive face, of which ____ lips were slightly brightened. ____ eyes were brown, with ____ straight and eager glance, ____ brow low and very white. Her expression was old for ____ girl of twenty, being calm and yet adventurous. (Galsworthy) 59. When I was ____ child my mother used to make ____ cakes and send me out with them as ____ presents to ____ neighbours. And ____ neighbors would give us ____ presents too, and not only at Christmas time. (Murdoch) 60. I wrote to ____ Managing Editor that this was ____ wrong moment to change their correspondent. (Greene)

Exercise 3. Translate into English.

1. Приходил почтальон? 2. Это был высокий белый дом; он был окружен большим садом. 3. Дом построен два года назад. 4. Мое любимое дерево — дуб. 5. Возле дома рос старый дуб. 6. Мы опоздали на поезд, и нам пришлось долго ждать на вокзале. 7. , Попугай может подражать человеческой речи. 8. Мы вошли в маленькую комнату, в которой стоял стол, несколько стульев и кресло. 9. Я надеюсь, что завтра вы дадите мне ответ. 10. Те­лескоп нужен астрономам, а микроскоп — биологам. 11. Серебря­ная-луна светила на небе. 12. Скрипка — струнный инструмент, флейта — духовой. 13. Шекспир и Сервантес умерли в одном и том же году. 14. Мы получили телеграмму в самый день нашего отъезда. 15. Вы мне дали не тот адрес. 16. Некоторые из гостей ушли рано. 17. Они живут на одной улице. 18. Он постучался не в ту дверь.

Exercise 4. Insert articles where necessary. (Articles with nouns modified by attributes in post-position.)

1. ____ man of whom I speak is ____ low pantomime actor. (Вickens) 2. Excuse me now, I have to see ____ man who's in trouble... (Gulsworthy)3.____ people familiar with these moors often miss their road on such evenings. (E. Bronte) 4. He listened attentively to a great many stories she told him about ____ amiable and handsome daugh­ter of hers, who was married to ____ amiable and handsome man and lived in the country. (Dickens) 5. I always think there's something rather cold and cheerless about ____ house that, lacks ____ woman's touch. (Maugham) 6. He stood up and looked at ____ house where he had been born, grown up, and played, as if asking for ____ an­swer. (Galsworthy) 7. Her throat aches because of ____ tears locked in it. (Lessing) 8. I am persuaded that this will be ____ shock of which he will feel ____ effects all his life. (Eliot) 9. There were half ____ dozen pocket robberies ____ day in ____ trams of Brussels. (Bennett) 10. There we were in ____ country none of us knew anything about, amongst Indians and ____ people that were only half civilised. (Gals­worthy) 11. At last they reached ____ door at which ____ servant knocked cautiously. (Murdoch) 12. We passed ____ set of chambers where I had worked as ____ young man. (Snow) 13. It is in ____ hour of trial that ____ man finds his true profession. (Shaw) 14. We dropped into ____ very pleasant nook under ____ great elm tree, to ____ spreading roots of which we fastened ____ boat. (Jerome K. Jerome) 15. It chanced that when this lonely young lady was about nineteen, she, being ____ fearless horsewoman, was riding, with only ____ young lad... in one of ____ woods near her uncle's house...and, in trotting along, her horse stumbled over ____ root of ____ felled tree. She slipped to ____ ground, not seriously hurt, and was assisted home by ____ gentleman who came in view at ____ moment of her mishap. It turned out that this gentleman... was on ____ visit at ____ house of ____ neighbouring land­ owner. (Hardy) 16. He was staring at ____ waves like ____ man cor­nered by ____ strange animal. (Murdoch) 17. You don't know ____ man you are married to. (Shaw) 18. He spoke with a very slow, dis­tinct voice... and always looked over ____ shoulder of ____ person to whom he was talking. (Wilde) 19. There had been at ____ dining table ____ middle-aged man with ____ dark eye and ____ sunburnt face, who had attracted Martin's attention. (Dickens) 20. And he had tea sitting on ____ edge of ____ chair that did not look too firm, all gilt and spindly. (Galsworthy) 21. They walked ____ mile or more along ____ handsome street which ____ colonel said was called Broadway... Turning, at length, into one of ____ numerous streets which branched from this main thoroughfare, they stopped before ____ rather mean-looking house. (Dickens) 22. Colonel Mordaunt does not look like ____ man who would do ____ mean or dishonourable thing. (Marryat) 23. She is ____ elderly matron who has worked hard and got nothing by it. (Shaw) 24. He was, in fact, ____younger edition of his father. (Galsworthy) 25. As Dick took up his pipe, ____ man who had passed into ____ smoking car with him put down his newspaper and looked at him. For ____ moment Dick was puzzled. It was ____ face he knew, but he could not put ____ name to it. Where had he seen ____ man? (Winter) 26. During ____ twenty minutes Michael took to read ____ doem, there was not ____ sound, except from the sheets being turned. (Galsworthy) 27. Rosa then noticed with surprise that she was in ____ room in which ____ party had been held. (Murdoch)

Exercise 5. Translate into English.

1. Сегодня я, наконец, достал книгу, которую я уже давно хочу прочесть. 2. Вот человек, с которым вы хотите поговорить. 3. Я не Люблю людей, которые ко всем придира­ются. 4. Я знаю девушку, которая удивительно хорошо декла­мирует стихи. Вчера она прочла стихотворение, которое мне. очень понравилось. 5. Улицы, по которым он проходил, были узкие и грязные. 6. Старик постучал в дверь небольшого домика, окна которого были ярко освещены. 7. Когда Ольга вернулась домой, она увидела, что ее сестра разговаривает с человеком, которого она никогда прежде не видела. 8. Я нашла гостиницу, где мы жили несколько лет назад. 9. Письмо, ко­торое она получила утром, расстроило ее. 10. Утром она получила письмо, которое ее расстроило. 11. Молодая девушка долго думала об удивительном открытии, которое она сделала. 12. На дороге они увидели большой камень, которого там раньше не было. 13. Я знаю адрес человека, которому вы хотите написать. 14. Дверь открыла женщина; в ней он сразу узнал оригинал портрета, который ему показал его приятель. 15. Она поехала в город, где жила ее дочь.

Exercise 6. (a) Insert articles or some where necessary. (Articles with nouns of material.)

1. We sipped ____ tea so weak that it tasted like ____ metal against the teeth. (Snow) 2. You will be wishing to have ____ tea after your journey, I'm thinking. (Shaw) 3. George said that we must take ____ rug, ____ lamp, ____ soap, ____ brush and ____ comb, ____ tooth-brush, ____ tooth-powder and ____ couple of big towels for bathing. (Jerome K. Jerome) 4. ____ children of his age seldom have natural pleasure in ____ soap and water. (E. Bronte) 5. He bought ____ cold beef, and , ____ ham, and ____ French bread and butter, and came back with his pockets pretty heavily laden. (Dickens) 6. There were two bottles of ____ wine, ____ plate of ____ oranges... with ____ powdered sugar. (Dickens) 7. Here, have champagne, I quite forgot to offer you any,

or would you rather have ____ tea? (Murdoch) 8. She made ____ coffee. (Murdoch) 9. ____coffee without ____ bread could never honestly serve as supper. (Saroyan) 10. ____ rest of us had finished eating, but Cave had cut himself another slice of ____ cheese. (Snow) 11. Mrs. Leek... frankly gave way to ____ soft tears while eating ____ bread-and-butter. (Bennett) 12. You've caught cold: I saw you shivering, and you must have ____ gruel to drive it out. (E. Bronte) 13. She did not answer, but her face was hard and pale as____ stone. (Galsworthy)

(b) Insert articles where necessary. (Articles with nouns of material.)

1. She hurried in again and found ____ water almost boiled away. (Lindsay) 2. … ____ blood is thicker than ____ water. (Galsworthy) 3. She went about looking into ____ dining room, which... had been transformed into ____ kind of jewel box glowing with ____ flowers, ____ silver, ____ gold, ____ tinted glass. (Dreiser) 4. Rosa tasted ____ wine It was harsh but refreshing. (Murdoch) 5. You drank, ____ wine with breakfast, dinner and supper, and fifty people always drank it with you. (/. Shaw) 6. She looked with____eager, hungry eyes at ____ bread and ____ meat and ____ beer that ____ landlady brought her. (Eliot) 7. ...Willows replied that he had made friends with ____ sculptor in Pisa... and had commissioned this artist to make ____ bust of himself in ____ marble. (Hardy) 8. ____coffee was better than Dinny had hoped and very hot. (Galsworthy) 9. Without giving her ____ opportunity to protest any more, he went to ____ thelephone and ordered ____ coffee and several sandwiches. (Caldwell) 10. She wears _____ little sailor hat of ____ black straw that has long been exposed to ____ dust and soot of London. (Shaw) 11. The mother was yellow in colour and her skin resembled ____ leather. (Murdoch) 12. The maid brought in ____ pears, ____ cold chicken, ____ tongue, ____ cheese. (Snow) 13. My heart... felt as heavy as ____ lead. (Du Maurier) 14. Every meal was ____ bread and ____ coffee and ____ cigarettes, and now he had no more bread. (Saroyan)

Exercise 7. Translate into English.

1. Портфель мал, но кожа хорошая. 2. Я люблю зеленый бар­хат. 3. Он не любил кофе. 4. Ему не понравился кофе, 5. Чай слишком крепкий; я не люблю крепкий чай. 6. Не забудьте дать кошке молока, у нее теперь котята! (Чехов) 7. Я ходил по аллее и думал о вишневом варенье. (Чехов)

Exercise 8. Insert articles where necessary. (Articles with abstract nouns.)

1. We both appreciate____simplicity. (Du Maurier) 2. In less than ____ week Cowperwood knew ___ financial condition of Messrs. Waterman as well as they did, better, to ____dollar. (Dreiser) 3. It is such ____ weary, weary work. (Dickens) 4. He [White] had ____ com­ fortable feeling of working alone in ____ large empty building, ____ feel­ing of ____ peace and ____ complete privacy. (Wilson) 5. I've reason to believe she [Fleur] has never properly got over ____ feeling she used to have. (Galsworthy) 6. I had seldom heard my friend speak with such ____ intensity of ____ feeling. (Conan Doyle) 7. His footsteps were now heard striking upon ____ stony road at ____ distance of about twenty yards. (Hardy) 8. We had ____ wonderful weather. (Du Maurier) 9. You must learn to face ____ life seriously, Stephen. (Shaw) 10. However, ____ life of such striking monotony does not seem to depress him. (Durrell) 11. May you be happy in ____ life you have chosen! (Dickens) 12. I love to think of ____ time that must come some day when ____ man will have conquered ____ nature, and ____ toilworn human race enter upon ____ era of ____ peace. (Leacock) 13. She was panting now, and in her face was ____ terror which was inexplicable. (Maugham) 14. His round blue eyes be­ hind ____ spectacles were ghastly with ____, terror. (Maugham) 15. I think in some curious way____horror which she felt for him was ____ transference of ____ horror which she felt for herself because he so strangely troubled her. (Maugham) 16. She was brilliantly familiar with ____ literature, ____ tongues, ____ art, ____ history, ____ physics, ____ metaphysics, ____ philosophy, and ____ politics (in which I include ____ modern politics). (Bennett) 17. It was ____ cold, bleak, biting weather. (Dickens) 18. ____ weather was sunny and dry. (Hardy) 19. ____ modern science is ____wonderful thing. (Shaw) 20; He was ____ steady, uninspired researcher in ____ properties of ____ liquid state of ____ matter. (Wilson) 21. Their blue eyes became filled with ____ gaiety and ____ ferocity and____joy, and their mouths with ____ laugh­ter. (Murdoch) 22. Jon laughed, and ____ sound of ____ laugh was hard. (Galsworthy) 23. Then she gave ____ crisp, ironic, almost cheer­ ful laugh... (Snow) 24. On that fine day ____ poverty of ____ dis­ trict she was entering seemed to her country-nurtured eyes intensely cheerless. (Galsworthy) 25. ____ reason is ____ greatest discovery ever made by ____ man. Yet it is ____ most disregarded and least used. (Jones) 26. ...what I offer is ____ security and ____ respect. That doesn't sound very exciting, but perhaps it's better than ____ pas­sion. (Greene) 27. And ____ passion that held Strickland was ____pas­sion to create ____ beauty. (Maugham) 28. She looked ____ incarna­tion of ____ supreme loveliness, ____ loveliness which was always revealing itself anew. (Bennett) 29. She [Aileen] knew nothing of ____ literature except ____ certain authors who to ____ truly cultured might seem banal. (Dreiser) 30. ____ expression on her face ____ hungry and hard and feverish — had the most peculiar effect upon Soames. (Galsworthy) 31. She listened with ____ expression impatient, strained and intent. (Snow) 32. At that age I had ____ very faulty view of ____ geography. (Miller) 33. ____poor fellow's face looked haggard with ____ want: he had ____ spect of ____ man who had not known what it was to live in ____ comfort... for ____ weeks, perhaps ____ months past. (Ch. Bronte) 34. He longed for ____ comfort of his sister's society. (Marryat) 35. He pines for kindness. (E. Bronte) 36. She sighed for ____ air, ____ liberty, ____ quiet of ____ country. (Austen) 37. Miss Cherrell, I am going to do all I can to remove ____ unpleasant impression you have of me. I am your very humble servant, and I hope some day to have ____ chance to be something else to you. (Galsworthy) 38. Then all four sat down and began to inspect Hunter and Calvin with ____ air of suspicion and curiosity. (Murdoch) 39. He spoke with ____ air of someone who has got over with an unpleasant duty and can now get on to ____ brighter mat­ ters. (Murdoch) 40. How quietly you live, John. I love ____ silence of this room and garden. (Murdoch) 41. At other times he would come and sit for long periods in her room in ____ silence. (Murdoch) 42. What ____ noble thing ____ courage is. (Reade) 43. Nothing gave him [little Hans] greater pleasure than to listen to all ____ won­ derful things ____ Miller used to say about ____ unselfishness of _____ true friendship. (Wilde) 44. ____ friendship which he had imposed from ____ beginning he now emphasised more than ever. (Greene) 45. And when multitudes of men are hurt to ____ death in wars I am driven to ____ grief which borders on ____ insanity. (Saroyan) 46. She could not only sing like ____ lark... but she had such ____ kindly, smiling, tender, gentle, generous heart of her own as won ____ love of everybody who came near her. (Thackeray) 47. What ____ delightful weather we are having! (Wilde) 48. Pray, don't talk to me about ____ weather, Mr. Worthing. Whenever ____ people talk to me about ____ weather, I always feel quite certain that they mean something else. (Wilde) 49. Such ____ weather makes everything and everybody disgusting. (Austen) 50. When he let her go, she sank breathless into ____ chair, gazing at him with ____ expression of such ____ terror that he put his hands over his face. (Galsworthy) 51. And so, concerned in talk that touched not on ____ feelings within them, they reached Mount Street. (Galsworthy) 52. Owen saw ____ figure of Edward at ____ distance of two or three hundred yards. (Hardy) 53. Mrs. .Maylie took up her «bade with her son and daughter-in-law to enjoy during ____ tranquil remainder of her days ____ greatest felicity that ____ age and worth can know, ____ contemplation of ____ happiness of those on whom ____ warmest affections and tenderest cares… have been unceasingly bestowed. (Dickens) 54. ____ art is ____ manifestation of ____ emotion, and ____ emotion speaks ____ language that all may understand. (Maugham) 55. Ada sat at ____ piano, Richard stood beside her. She touched ____ notes so softly, and sang so low,

that ____ wind, sighing away in ____ distant hills, was as audible as ____ music. (Dickens) 56. Mr. Bob Sawyer adjusted his skates with ____ dexterity which to Mr. Winkle was perfectly marvellous. (Dickens) 57. He had not been stationary half ____ minute, when he heard his own name pronounced by ____ voice which he at once recognized as Mr. Tupman's, and looking upwards, he beheld ____ sight which filled him with ____ surprise and ____ pleasure. (Dickens)

58. She sat by ____ window reading. From her position she could see up ____ lane for ____ distance of at least ____ hundred yards. (Hardy) 59. I can see ____ beauty and ____ peace of this home; I think I have never been more at ____ rest in my life than at this moment. (Shaw)

60. Beside his bed, for ____ first time during ____ period of nearly twenty years, he fell down on his knees in ____ passionate outburst of ____ feeling. (Hardy) 61. It was ____ new fear, different from that which she had once confided in her own flat, yet grown from ____ same root. (Snow) 62. ____ empty windows of ____ ruins were filled with ____ life of their own. (Heym) 63. Cowperwood awakened to ____ sense of ____ joy in ____ life such as he fancied he had never expe­ rienced before. (Dreiser) 64. Mr. Pickwick stood in ____ principal street of this illustrious town, and gazed with ____ air of ____ curiosity not unmixed with ____ interest, on ____ objects around him. (Dickens)

Exercise 9. Translate into English.

1. Декабристы погибли в борьбе за свободу народа. 2. Все народы земли хотят мира. 3. Мы никогда не забудем героизм тех, кто боролся против фашизма. 4. Я очень ценю в людях скромность и- простоту. 5. Природа играла большую роль в твор­честве романтиков. 6. Музыкант должен знать историю оперы. 7. С ней он мог говорить о литературе, об искусстве, о чем угодно, мог жаловаться ей на жизнь, на людей. {Чехов) 8. Я хочу быть артисткой, я хочу славы, успехов, свободы. (Чехов) 9. Оста­вим пока геометрию. Обратимся к науке, которую вы, как чи­новник почтового ведомства, вероятно, любите. География — наука почтальонов. (Чехов) 10. Зачем я стереометрию учил, ежели ее в программе нет? (Чехов) 11. Я с детства люблю музыку. 12. Он изучает английскую историю. 13. Он изучает историю Англии. 14. На расстоянии 20—30 шагов мы увидели' странную фигуру. 15. Если вы плохо себя чувствуете, не выходите в такую погоду. 16. Мой брат очень любит архитектуру и мечтает стать архитек­ тором. 17. Меня интересует история развития английского романа.

Exercise 10. Insert articles where necessary. (Articles with names of persons.)

1. Margaret was talking to ____ Osbaldistons.' (Snow) 2. In ____ dim light streaming down ____ stairs from behind her, he scarcely recognised ____ Lily he had known. (Lindsay) 3. ____ barbaric Bertie got no hint whatever that he was barbaric. (Bennett) 4.____father and ____ daughter appeared at last. (Wells) 5. Gradman is here, darling, and ____ mother, and ____ Aunt Winifred, and Kit and Michael. Is there anyone you would like to see? (Galsworthy) 6. Louis seemed... rather ____ grave, still, retiring man, but ____ Caroline of this evening, which was not ____ Caroline of every day, thawed his reserve. (Ch. Bronte) 7. She watched ____ advent of ____ Tasburghs almost maliciously. Hubert and ____ young Tasburgh at once discovered mutual service in Mesopotamia. (Galsworthy) 8, My visit was specially made to ____ good Mrs. Ames. (Conan Boyle) 9. ____ professor Beans is ____ man to whom you'll be responsible for your undergraduate teaching. (Wilson) 10. This Pat wasn't at all like ____ Pat of his memories. When she smiled he saw ____ Pat he had known, _____ Pat smiling at him from ____ worn photo that

still lay in _____ pocketbook against his heart. But watching her ... he grew aware that ____ family was divided in its attitude. Alice... and Mrs. Baxter... were partisans of ____ new Pat. He still felt that he couldn't bring ____ two Pats together; but he didn't hold that against ____ Pat of ____ present. (Lindsay) 11. ____ flustered Clarice stood beside me. (Du Marnier) 12. If you are ____ Napo­leon, you will play ____ game of ____power; if you're ____ Leonardo, you'll play for ____ knowledge; ____ stakes hardly matter. (Wallace) 13. At that time I had ____ greatest admiration for ____ Impres­ sionists. I longed to possess Sisley and ____ Degas, and I worship­ ped Manet. (Maugham) 14.. I overtook ____ pretty little Hetty Sor­rel as I was coming to my den. (Eliot) 15. He cared to say no more; he had thrown quite dust enough into ____ honest Adam's eyes. (Eliot) 16. This was ____ famous Frank A. Cowperwood whom he had read about... (Dreiser) 17. ____ certain Joseph Zimmerman suggested that he undertake operating in street railway shares for him. (Dreiser) 18. Elsie said she would ring up ____ Doctor Worple.

(Bennett) 19. ____ poor Edward muttered something, but what it was nobody knew. (Austen) 20. He was gayer than I had thought... youthful and ardent in ____ hundred happy ways, not ____ Maxim. I had first met. (Du Maurier) 21. I have ____ address of ____ man in London to whom ____ Professor writes. (Conan Doyle) 22. It is need­ less to multiply ____ instances of ____ high and lofty station, and ____ vast importance of ____ Chuzzlewits at different periods. (Dickens). 23. It has been said that there is no instance, in modern times, of ____ Chuzzlewit having been found on terms of ____ inti­ macy with ____ great. (Dickens) 24. ____ gentle, tender-hearted Ame­ lia Sedley was ____ only person "to whom she [Becky] could attach herself in ____ least. (Thackeray) 25. Yet ____ room itself was bright and elegant; on one wall was ____ fine Sisley, of poplars and sunny water, on another ____ still life by Nicholas de Stael, pastel fruit in ____ white dish. (Snow) 26. ____ captain Cuttle lived on ____ brink of ____ little canal. (Dickens) 27. Mr. Tupman, by ____ nod, intimated that his question applied to ____ disappointed Rachel. (Dickens) 28. I am ____ Mr. Martin for whom you were to inquire. (Dickens) 29. I'm to meet ____ Professor Hallorsen on Monday. (Galsworthy) 30. If you're going West may I come with you? I want to see ____ Aunt Emily and ____Uncle Lawrence. (Galsworthy) 31. During ____

reading of ____ paragraph, and for ____ minute or two afterwards, he sat with his gaze fixed on ____ modest Mr. Toots, like ____ man en­tranced. (Dickens) 32. I had no doubt that you were ____ Miss Wilfer I have often heard named. (Dickens) 33. "Oh, good evening," he exclaimed, removing his cap and bowing. "How are you?" while his mind was registering that this truly was ____ beautiful, ____ exqui­site Sondra whom months before he had met at his uncle's. (Dreiser) 34. "I don't care about ____ Captain Dobbin's complexion," she said... "I shall always like him, I know." "There is not ____ finer fellow in ____ service," Osborne said, "nor ____ better officer,

though he is not ____ Adonis, certainly." (Thackeray) 35. ____ differ­ence between ____ pair was that while ____ father was violent and ____ bully, ____ son had thrice ____ nerve and courage of ____ parent, and could not merely make ____ attack, but resist it; and finding that ____ moment was not come when ____ contest between him and his father was to be decided, he took his dinner with ____ perfect coolness and appetite before ____ engagement began. ____ old Osborne, on ____ contrary, was nervous and drank much. (Thackeray) 36. ____ medical practitioner quite refused to accept ____ unhappy Selina's theory. (Hardy)

Exercise 11. Translate into English.

1. Он решил сходить к Туркиным. (Чехов) 2. Мой муж рев­нив, это Отелло. (Чехов) 3. И мать и дочь приняли приглашение. 4. Подождите немножко, отец сейчас придет. 5. Мы сегодня пой­дем в театр. Идет «Дядя Ваня». 6. Вы —Коля, тот самый Коля, неуклюжий, застенчивый... Коля? (Куприн)

Exercise 12. Insert articles where necessary. (Articles with geographical names.)

1. After ____ tour in ____ Austrian Alps they had gone to ____ Ho­tel Splendide at ____ Montreux, in order to enjoy for ____ day or two ____ charms of ____ Lake of ____ Geneva. (Bennett) 2. Dusk was already falling on ____ noble curve of ____ Thames. (Bennett) 3. I hear he's off to ____ Central Africa. (Bennett) 4. In Ivanhoe Walter Scott describes ____ England of ____ Middle Ages. 5. ____ Capetown is in ____ South Africa. 6. In ____ heart of _____ Central Asia lies ____ Khoresm, ____ small fertile area in ____ sea of ____ sand. 7. ____ prospect ends... in little hills that come nearly to ____ sea; rudiments, these, of Atlas Mountains. (Shaw) 8. "We've been touring ____ world... Wetried ____ South America... We lasted three days in ____ Australia..."Have you ever been to ____ States?" (Amis) 9. Michael looked quizzically at his parent. Did he quite understand ____ England of today? (Galsworthy)

Exercise 13. Translate into English.

1. Кордильеры находятся в Северной Америке. 2. Берега Рейна очень живописны. 3. Эльбрус — очень красивая гора. 4. «Пиковая дама» была написана Чайковским во Флоренции в 1890 г. 5. Средиземное море находится между Европой, Азией и Африкой. 6. Венеция расположена на берегу Адриатического моря. 7. Ливингстон погиб в Центральной Африке.

Exercise 14. Insert articles where necessary. (Articles with names of ho­tels, streets, ships, and newspapers.)

1. She nodded ____ command to ____ footman, and they drove off westward, down ____ Strand, and so into ____ little side street by ____ Charing Cross. (Bennett) 2. I am going to Folkestone to-day, and shall stay at ____ Metropole. (Bennett) 3. They were excited because they had been dining with ____ editor of ____ Times, and had been given ____ glimpse of next day's paper. (Snow) 4. She sat in her superb private drawing room at ____ Hotel Cecil. 5. ____ boys loved him because he told them that ____ Navy had borrowed him from ____ U. S. Army just in time to blow taps on ____ Maine as she was sinking, and he remained long after everyone including ____ captain had abandoned ____ ship. {Wilson) 6. He began to walk very rapidly up towards ____ Trafalgar Square. (Greene) 7. He went out and ate ____ ices at ____ pastry-cook's shop in ____ Charing Cross; tried ____ new coat in ____ Pall Mall; and called for ____ Captain Cannon, played eleven games at ____ billiards with ____ captain, and returned to ____ Russell Square. (Thackeray) 8. ____ street was empty, unlighted save by ____ reflection from ____ Grandlieu Street behind them... (Faulkner) 9. In 1905 ____ revolt broke out on ____ Potemkin, one of ____ battleships of ____ Black Sea Fleet. 10. Yet, in ____ bright drawing room in ____ Lord North Street, all he was thinking of... was what ____ Telegraph, ____ Guardian, the popular press, would say next day. (Snow)

Exercise 15. Insert articles where necessary. (Articles with nouns modified by proper nouns.)

1. I often go to ____ Pushkin Theatre. 2. I am very fond of ____ , Pushkin's short tragedies. 3. ____ Tretyakov gallery was founded nearly ____ century ago by Pavel Tretyakov. ____ Tretyakov's devo­tion to ____ art and his indefatigable efforts had ____ magnificent results and furthered ____ development of ____ Russian painting. 4. I am ____ medical student and have held ____ post of house surgeon at one of ____ London hospitals for some time. (Marryat) 5. ____ Fox apartment had ____ spacious old-fashioned feeling. 6. To­ wards ____ end of ____ year 1913 several young students living in Moscow founded ____ small group known as ____ Students' Drama Studio. It was from that group that ____ Vakhtangov Theatre sprang. Vakhtangov was _____ tireless innovator. Some of Vakhtangov's pupils became ____ capable producers. 7. ____ sets of furniture were imitations of one of ____ Louis periods. (Dreiser) 8. ____ Pulkovo Observatory is over ____ hundred years old. 9. ____ chin of ____ founder of ____ Forsyte clan was settled comfortably between ____ widely separated points of ____ old-fashioned collar. (Galsworthy) 10. He had known all ____ pretty Mont joy sisters scattered over ____ Society, but of them all Diana was ____ youngest, ____ prettiest, most tasteful and wittiest... (Galsworthy)

Exercise 16. Insert articles where necessary. (Articles with set expressions.)

1. I trust you to tell me ____ bare truth, whatever it is. (Snow) 2. The maid, looking to right and left, spoke in ____ low and hurried voice. (Galsworthy) 3. On his trip round ____ world with Fleur he had often put his nose out and watched the dancing on ____ deck. (Galsworthy) 4. He decided that he would not at ____ present explain to her who he was. (Bennett) 5. I saw ____ good deal of him during ____ war. (Snow) 6. He has taken his death very much to ____ heart indeed. (Collins) 7. What did her education and her accom­plishments amount to? She could keep ____ house. (Bennett) 8. All seemed perfectly at their ease, by. no means in ____ hurry. (Dickens) 9. Somebody important must have been arriving from Europe by ____ air... (Greene) 10. Am I dealing, young people, with ____ case of ____ love at ____ first sight? (Galsworthy) 11. We've had some tea already on ____ board ____ yacht. (Shaw) 12. Rosa was well aware that she had never taken ____ trouble to get to know Annette. (Murdoch) 13. You will go to ____ sea and forget all about me in ____ month. (Galsworthy) 14. He was about to start on ____ long journey, ____ difficult one, by ____ sea, and no soul would knowwhere he was gone. (Eliot) 15. It is ____ pleasure to see you. (Gals­worthy) 16. He held ____ very guarded conversation with her on his way home, for fear that she would take ____ additional offence. Argument was out of ____ question. (Dreiser) 17. On ____ other hand, if he was beaten he took it With complete good humour. (Maug­ham) 18. He is beginning to lose ____ heart, they say. (Reade) 19. She burned like ____ fire from ____ head to ____ foot. (Hardy) 20. I got into conversation with him by ____ chance at ____ concert. (Shaw) 21. She's taken quite ____ fancy to you, Ridgeon. (Shaw) 22. ____ furniture was all sent round by ____ water. (Austen) 23. I returned at once, and found Ada sitting at ____ work by ____ fire­ side. (Dickens) 24. He played ____ flute. (Miller) 25. Somewhere ____ great many men were singing. (Greene) 26. He was chronically in ____ debt... (Snow) 27. ____ woman I fixed my eye on was ____ , woman who kept ____ house for me at my cottage. (Collins) 28. It is ____ pity to worry her if she has ____ talent for ____ uneasiness. (Galsworthy) 29. He has given ____ permission to go up and see her there. (Priestley) 30. Behind ____ house was ____ large garden, and in summer, ___ pupils almost lived out of ____ doors. (Ch. Bronte) 31. ____ rain had stopped, and we went on ____ foot to ____ Ebury Street. (Snow) 32. They started at ____ dawn, and ____ boy I sent with them didn't come back till next day. (Maugham) 33. On being informed... that her departure would be delayed... she had flown into ____ violent passion. (Collins) 34. All of ____sud­den, his face had become stony. (Snow) 35. Dear, dear! It seems only ____ other day since I took you down to school at Slough! (Galsworthy) 36. Mr. Byron Waller could play ____ violin. (Lee)

Exercise 17. Translate into English.

1. Он всегда говорит очень тихо. 2. На днях я случайно встретила Нину. 3. Если вы ей так ответите, она придет в ярость. 4. По правде говоря, я так и не -поняла, почему она обиделась. 5. Она читает, с утра до ночи. 6. Я люблю путешествовать мо­рем. 7. Вы по ошибке принесли не тот журнал. 8. Мы всегда заставали его за работой. 9. Приходите ко мне завтра. — Об этом и речи быть не может, я очень занята. 10. Он даже не потру­дился встретить нас на вокзале. 11. Жаль, что вы не можете пойти с нами в театр. 12. Мы уже можем читать Диккенса и Теккерея в оригинале. 13. Мой брат очень хорошо играет на скрипке.

Exercise 18. Insert articles where necessary. (Articles with predicative no­uns and nouns in apposition.)

1. Ostrovsky commenced ____ clerk in ____ Moscow Commercial Court. 2. Selina, ____ daughter of ____ Paddocks, had been surprised that afternoon by receiving ____ letter from her once intended husband. (Hardy) 3. My father became ____ rector of Burnmore when I was nine. (Wells) 4. Cashel was to go to sea, so that if his affairs became desperate, he could at least turn ____ pirate. (Shaw) 5. He was ____ particular friend of Sir John's (Austen). 6. You are not ____ person you claim to be. (Dickens) 7. His 'mon­ey was ____ money I brought him as my marriage portion. (Shaw) 8. That meeting had occurred at ____ house of ____ high official of ____ British Museum, ____ scholar with whom Arthur was on friendlyterms. (Bennett) 9. Mrs. Patterson, ____ lymphatic woman, was hold­ing ,her son Jim by ____ hand. (Lindsay) 10. ____ trained diplomat and statesman as he was, his stern aristocratic face was upside down with ____ fury. (Leacock) 11. I am not ____ good fisherman myself. (Jerome K. Jerome) 12. Ever since then I haven't been able to suppress ____ gnawing thoughts in my mind. I'm not strong enough to suppress them. I'm too weak. I'm not ____ man enough. (Caldwell) 13. You Were ____ dear little girl; I see it now, looking back. But not ____ little girl I had in my mind. (Jerome K- Jerome) 14. He looked thin, and yellow as ____ guinea, and he had turned ____ miser. (Reade) 15. You should have been ____ woman enough to control yourself. (Hardy) 16. Martha, who was ____ poor apprentice at ____ milliner's, then told them what kind of ____work she had to do. (Dickens) 17. What ____ charming house you have, Lady Chiltern! (Wilde) 18. I am Anthony Anderson, ____ man you want. (Shaw) 19. Only, his forehead and mouth betray an extraor­ dinary steadfastness; and his eyes are ____ eyes of ___ fanatic. (Shaw) 20. He had just ,been appointed ____ Lord Justice of appeal. (Snow) 21. His clothes are not ____ clothes, nor his anxious wife ____ wife of ___ prosperous man. (Shaw) 22. I was ____ fool enough to ask her to live here still, and direct ____ affairs of ____ house for me. (E. Bronte)

Exercise 19. Translate into English.

1. В 1937 г. археологическая экспедиция отправилась в Хо­резм. Экспедицию возглавлял профессор С. Толстов, известный специалист по истории народов Средней Азии. (Советская лите­ратура) 2. Качалов, изумительный актер, которого оплакивали миллионы любителей театра, умер за месяц до 50-летнего юбилея Художественного театра. 3. Озеро Байкал, сердце Сибири, как его называют, замечательно редкой красотой берегов и удивитель­ным цветом воды. Академик Берг, выдающийся советский гео­граф, называет Байкал чудом природы. 4. Беранже, знаменитый французский поэт, родился в 1780 г. В детстве он жил с дедом, бедным парижским портным. Когда началась революция, его от-правили в провинцию к тетке, содержательнице гостиницы.

Exercise 20. Insert articles where necessary.

1. ____ love seemed now so little ____ thing, seemed to have lost ____warmth and ____ power... (Galsworthy) 2. It was too great ____ shock to be borne with ____ calmness, and she immediately left ____ room. (Austen) 3. It's as good ____ place, I suppose, as you could find. (Galsworthy) 4. Mrs. Todgers was ____ lady, ____ rather bony and hard-featured lady. (Dickens) 5. It was quite ____ way down to ____ main road and then we walked along ____ main road about ____ mile and ____ half. (Hemingway) 6. But he... gave her so long and so peculiar ____ stare from ____ corner where he was hav­ing tea, that she knew he had not forgiven her. (Galsworthy) 7. She seemed to take rather ____ fancy to me. (Galsworthy)

Exercise 21. Translate into English.

1. Такую интересную книгу приятно перечитать. 2. Это слиш­ком длинный роман, чтобы его можно было прочесть в два дня. 3. Это такая же светлая каюта, как та. 4. Я не могу ответить на такой странный вопрос. 5. Это довольно интересная статья. 6. Как вы могли упустить такой редкий случай? 7. Какое неле­пое возражение! 8. Оба письма были отправлены утром. 9. Все бумаги подписаны. 10. Это слишком сложная проблема, чтобы ее можно было разрешить в такое короткое время.

Exercise 22. Translate into Russian. (Ways of expressing the meaning of the English articles in Russian.)

1. I am very fond of Helen, there is a great charm about the girl. 2. The man was slowly walking along the street. 3. A man was slowly walking along the street. 4. We've baught the butter in this shop. 5. We've bought some butter. 6. A girl showed me the way to the station. 7. I shouldn't like to live here; there is some­thing gloomy about the house. 8. You had better not attempt to be a governess, as the duties of the position would be too severe for your constitution. (Ch. Bronte)

Exercise 23. Translate into English.

1.Я не знала, что собака в комнате. 2. Я не знала, что в комнате есть собака. 3.Принесите муку. 4. Принесите муки. 5. Девушка подошла к окну. 6. К окну подошла девушка.

Exercise 24. Insert articles where necessary. (Special cases.) (A) Day, night, morning, evening.

1. Outside it was ____ night. (Murdoch) 2. It was ____ warm summer night. (Snow) 3. ____ night outside seemed very quiet. (Greene) 4. It was ____ foggy evening in November. (Murdoch) 5. During ____ evening we played innumerable games of piquet.. (Maugham) 6. It was ____ evening, and he was walking across the school grounds on his way home. (Saroyan) 7. He wondered what hour it was. ____ sun seemed to indicate ____late morning... (Greene) 8. I think it's going to be ____ fine morning, after all. (Shaw) 9. ____ morning was cold and sharp and sunny. (Greene) 10. It is ____ early morning. (Shaw) 11. We are going to have ____ ideal night. (Shaw) 12. ____ night being sharp and frosty, we trembled from ____ head to ____ foot. (Dickens) 13. It was early in ____ afternoon. (Murdoch) 14. ____ night was ____ windy one, with broken clouds drifting swiftly across ____ face of ____ three-quarter moon. (Conan Doyle) 15. ____ night came and he sent his sadness into his sleep. (Saroyan) 16. I was up at six in ____ morning. (/. Shaw) 17. She has had ____ bad night, probably ____ rather delirious night. (Shaw) 18. ____ machines at ____ factory were in perpetual motion ____ day and ____ night. (Murdoch) 19. Arthur did not pass ____ sleepless night; he slept long and well, for ____ sleep comes to ____ perplexed, if ____ perplexed are only weary enough. (Eliot) 20. It was about ten o'clock at ____ night. (Maugham) 21. ____ fine September after­ noon was dying fast. (Galsworthy) 22. I persuaded him to stay ____ night, with me, and I put him into my own bed. (Maugham) 23. It was ____ morning after Roger had talked to me in ____ Park, and Margaret and I were sitting at breakfast. (Snow) 24. ____ day was by this time approaching; ____ West was dim, ____ East begining to gleam. (Ch. Bronte) 25. On ____ bright January morning ____ telephones kept ringing in my office. (Snow) 26. I cannot describe to you ____ intense silence of ____ night. (Maugham) 27. I shall not forget ____ evening. I spent with him. I had not-intended to stay more than ____ hour, but he insisted that I should spend ____ night. (Maugham) 28. He painted and he read, and in ____ evening, when it was dark, they sat together on ____ veranda, smoking and look­ ing at ____ night. (Maugham) 29 It was as lovely ____ morning as one could desire. (Jerome K. Jerome) 30. It was ____ glorious night _____ moon had sunk, and left ____ quiet earth alone with ____ stars. (Jerome K. Jerome) 31. Nell dropped ____ curtsey, and told him they were ____ poor travellers who sought ____ shelter for ____ night. ____ schoolmaster told them that they were welcome to remain under his roof till ____ morning. (Dickens) 32. Every day I was up at ____ dawn, clearing, planting, working on my house, and at ____ night when I threw myself on my bed it was to sleep like ____ logtill ____ morning. (Maugham)

Exercise 25. Translate into English.

l. Утро было холодное и ветреное. 2. Был теплый летний вечер. 3. Настала ночь, и путешественники решили отдохнуть. 4. Он пишет с утра до ночи. 5. Он переночевал у приятеля. 6. Он провел бессонную ночь и был очень бледен. 7. Приятно поехать за город в ясный летний день. 8. И днем и ночью он Думал об одном. 9. Было прекрасное утро — солнечное и тихое. 10. Было раннее утро, и все в доме еще спали.

Exercise 26. Insert articles where necessary,

(В) Names of seasons.

1. It was ____ winter, and ____ night of bitter cold. (Wilde) 2. You see, ____ winter was ____ very bad time for me, and I really had no money at all to buy ____ bread with. (Wilde) 3. It was ____ very dark evening for ____ summer. (E. Bronte) 4. ____summer drew to ____ end, and ____ early autumn. (E. Bronte) 5. I wondered if ____ autumn would come upon us two months before her time. (Du Maurier) 6. It was ____ lovely evening in ____ spring time of ____ year;

and in ____ soft stillness of ____ twilight, all ____ nature was very calm and beautiful. ____ day had been fine and warm; but at ____ coming on of ____ night, ____ air grew cool. (Dickens)!. It was pretty late in ____ autumn of ____ year when ____declining sun, struggling through ____ mist which had obscured it all day, looked brightly upon ____ little Wiltshire village. (Dickens) 8. There was going to be ____ election soon, we all knew: this was ____ spring of 1955. (Snow) 9. It was ____cold fall and ____ wind came dowd from ____ mountains. (Hemingway) . 10. It was ____ fine day, early in ____ spring, and we were in ____ good humour. (Maugham)

Exercise 27. Translate into English.

1. Была ранняя весна. 2. Была дождливая, холодная осень. 3. Осень была исключительно теплая; стояла ясная, солнечная погода. 4. Мое любимое время года — лето. 5. Лето 1941 года было очень жаркое.

Exercise 28. Insert articles where necessary.

(С) Bed, school, prison, town.

1. It was eleven o'clock. Annette was still in ____ bed. (Mur­doch) 2. Stefan, who had been sitting on the edge of ____ bed, came near to her and smiled for ____ first time. (Murdoch) 3. Maycomb was ____ old town. (Lee) 4. Dolores said nothing all ____ way to ____ town. (/. Shaw) 5. Yes, he and my brother had been to ____ school together. (Snow) 6. Before that she had taught history in ____ girls' school. (Murdoch) 7. ____ school was not ____ particularly good one. (Conan Doyle) 8. I never knew ____ lawyer yet who didn't threaten to put me in ____ prison sooner or later. (Shaw) 9. Steger next visited _____ county jail, close on to five o'clock, when it was. al­ready dark. (Dreiser) 10. In all probability he was already in ____ town. (Austen) 11. Among other public buildings in ____ certain town... there is one anciently common to most towns, great or, small... ____ workhouse.. (Dickens) 12. After leaving ____ school, I became clerk to her father. (Lindsay. 13. She graduated from ____ Pedagogical Institute ____ year ago and now she is working at ____ school in ____village near Leningrad. 14. ____ prison where Little Dorrit was born was called "The Marshalsea". 15. I haven't done anything that warrants my running away or going to ____ prison, either. I'm merely going there to save time at ____ present. (Dreiser) 16. It was in my walk that night, and in ____ sleepless hours which followed when I lay in ____ bed, that ____ thought first occurred tome which afterwards shaped itself into ____ settled resolution. (Dickens) 17. He told with ____perfect truth... how he had in time been released from ____ prison. (Dickens) 18. When you think of me at all, John, let it only be as ____ little child you have seen grow up in ____ prison. (Dickens) 19. You take your man home, Mrs. Dubedut,. and get him to ____ bed before eleven. (Shaw) 20. I'm going to be out of ____ town for a few days. So I may not even see you again. (Faulkner) 21. Unless we can give ____ rector ____ bedhe had nowhere to lay his head this night. (Shaw) 22. Who could be in ____ prison ____ quarter of ____ century, and be prosperous!(Dickens)

Exercise 29. Translate into English.

1. Она легла спать в три часа и встала с головной болью. 2. Почему вы так поздно вернулись из города? 3. Женщина по­дошла к кровати и накрыла ребенка одеялом. 4. Она плохо себя чувствовала и провела весь день в постели. 5. Сегодня мне надо пойти в школу на родительское собрание. 6. Я провела все лето в городе. 7. Когда сестра окончила школу, она поступила в кон­серваторию. 8. Мы провели несколько дней в маленьком городке на Кавказе. 9. Мы живем на даче, но часто приезжаем в город. 10. О. Генри был обвинен в краже, и, хотя он был невиновен, , его посадили в тюрьму. Он сидел в тюрьме три года.

Exercise 30. Insert articles where necessary.. (D) Names of meals.

1. He said he had letters to write and if I would allow him, would remain in his room till ____ dinner was ready. (Jerome K. Jerome) 2. He came in one morning when I was having ____ breakfast on ____ terrace ,of ____ hotel and introduced himself. (Maugham) 3. I saw to it that he had ____ good dinner. (Jerome K. Jerome) 4. We had ____ cold bacon for ____ lunch that day. There was not much of it. I took it to be ____ bacon we had not eaten for ____ breakfast. But on ____ clean dish with parsley it looked rather neat. (Jerome K. Jerome) 5. Mr. Clay settled back in his chair, savoring his drink, expecting ____ good dinner. (/. Shaw) 6. ____ dinner was very sound. (Bennett) 7. Come and have ____ tea on ____ deck. (Bennett) 8. They had ____ supper in ____ silence. (Murdoch) 9. ____ little expedition down ____ river was delightful, and ____ little room overlooking ____ river into which they were shown for ____ dinner was delightful. (Dickens) 10. In ____ tiny dining-room, we were having ____ excellent dinner, cooked by Mary Osbaldiston... (Snow) 1l. She... began to dress for ____ dinner to which she had been invited. (Austen) 12. When he arrived... ____ famous Contract was at ____ dinner. (Dreiser) 13. When they arrived and mounted ____ stairs, Stefan behaved as usual, and soon they were eating ____ sup­per which Jan had prepared. (Murdoch) 14. He assisted her... in setting forth ____ neat luncheon, consisting of ____ cold chicken, ____ ham and ____ tarts. (Ch. Bronte) 15. ____ dinner was ____ grand one. (Austen) 16. I shall be glad to see you at ____ lunch at half past one. (Shaw) 17. He had given me ____ dinner, and ____ good one. (Snow)

Exercise 31. Translate into English.

1. Мы позавтракали в восемь часов. 2. Завтрак состоял из хлеба с маслом, сыра и кофе. 3. Не опаздывайте к обеду. 4. Обед еще не готов. 5. Наши знакомые пригласили нас на обед.

Exercise 32. Insert articles where necessary. (Articles with nouns modi­fied by certain adjectives, pronouns, and numerals.) (A) Most.

1. You have had ____ most distinguished career... (Snow) 2. This was ____ most painful thought of all. (Murdoch) 3. He had put himself in ____ most unsatisfactory position, politically and socially. (Dreiser) 4. She was ____ most beautiful young girl; ____ most beau­tiful girl he had ever seen. (Bennett) 5. ____ most of ____ women had flowers or little black feathers sticking up in their hair. (Glyn) 6. I started relating ____ most interesting anecdote, but was some­ what surprised to observe.. that nobody was paying ____ slightest attention to me whatever. (Jerome K. Jerome) 7. ____ news he had conveyed to her would have terrified ____ most women. (Cronin). 8. He was____ man of ____ most subtle and refined intellect. ____ man of ____ culture, ____ charm and ____ distinction. One of ____ most in­ tellectual men I ever met. (Wilde) 9. Her life held so little of ____ real charm; and Aileen Butler was ____ most significant element of ____ romance in it. (Dreiser) 10. Youth in her South Carolinian home had been simple and self-reliant; and unlike ____ most Amer­ican girls, she had not had too good ____ time. (Galsworthy) 11. It was ____ most beautiful room. It was most beautiful room in ____ house. (Du Marnier) 12. Gentleman, he was ____ most excellent man, ____ most gentle, tender and estimable man, with ____ simplic­ity of ____ child. (Dickens) 13. ____ Norman Conquest is one of ____ most important events in ____ English history, and it had ____ great­est influence on ____ history of ____ language.

Exercise 33. Insert articles where necessary. (B) Few, little.

1. ____ mother and I are planning to go to ____ country for ____ few days. (Dreiser) 2. It was ____ cold, windy evening and there were ____ few people in ____ Park. 3. ____ few words that I have to add to what I have written, are soon penned. (Dickens) 4. We needn't take ____ porter. We have ____ little luggage. 5, When you've wanted something very badly and it. comes at last, it is somehow ____ little frightening. (Maugham) 6. ____ little I have to say can be said in ____ few minutes. 7.I am commonly ____ man of ____ few words. (Dickens) 8. One morning, when Rose was alone in ____ breakfast-parlour, Harry Maylie entered; and, with some hesitation, begged ____ permission to speak with her for ____ few moments. (Dickens) 9.'What ____ little light there was came from one small window. (Priestley) 10. He paused, wishing he had not mentioned that fact. It was ____ slip of ____ tongue, one of ____ few he ever made, due to ____ peculiar pressure of ____ situation. (Dreiser) 11. Oh, I know there's no danger, but I'm ____ little frightened all ____ same. (Greene) 12. Well, for instance, why don't you tell me about your sister? She always sounds fascinating, from ____ little I hear, but I've no real idea what she's like. (Hansford Johnson) 13. ___ old man replied that there were ____ few grown persons as trust­ worthy or as careful as she [Nell]. (Dickens) 14. Harriet closed her coat quickly and walked ____ little faster. (/. Shaw) 15. We can't disguise from ourselves that there's ____ little hope. (Greene) 16. He accepted willingly my invitation to remain for ____ few days in. my apartment. (Maugham) 17. I seem to have forgotten ____ little I ever knew. (Conan Doyle) 18. He tried to orient himself by ____ stars; but it was ____ cloudy night and ____ few stars that were visible did not announce any constellation that he could rec­ognize. (Murdoch) 19. Carie expostulated, begged, was very angry, even wept ____ little, and then suddenly capitulated. (Buck) 20. Lufkin's tastes were austere. He spent ____ little on himself. (Snow) 21. I see very ____ few women; but those are ____ women of rank. (James) 22. Mary offered to. lend ____ little she had. (E. Bronte) 23. I've travelled ____ little, but not enough. (Hansford Johnson) 24. Surely, during ____ few hours he might pass in ____ cottage it would be easy for her to keep out of his way. (Marryat) 25. She respected him mightily but gave him ____very little thought. (Buck) 26. When ____ winter came... he suffered ____ good deal from ____ cold and ____ hunger, and often had to go to ____ bed without any supper but ____ few dried pears or some hard nuts. (Wilde) 27. He was one of ____ few men of science who never terrified me, probably because he never behaved like ____ doctor. (Lee)

Exercise 34. Insert articles where necessary. (C) Second, third, etc.

1. Of all those to whom he appealed one was actually not in ____ position to do anything for him; another was afraid; ____ third was calculating eagerly to drive ____ hard bargain; ____ fourth was too deliberate, anxious to have much time. (Dreiser) 2. Two people would have to hold ____ chair, and ____ third would help him up on it, and ____ fourth would hand him ____ nail, and ____ fifth would pass him up ____ hammer. (Jerome K. Jerome) 3. ____ professor Earle Fox ignored for ____ second time ____ buzzing signal from, the secre­tary, in ____ adjoining office. (Wilson) 4. One evening ____ little Hans was sitting by his fireside when ____ loud rap came at ____ door... At first he thought it was merely the storm. But ____ sec­ond rap came, then ____ third. (Wilde) 5. Mr. Pickwick was per­fectly aware that ____ tree is ____ very dangerous neighbour in ____ thunderstorm. He had ____ tree on his right ____ tree on his left, ____ third before him, and ____ fourth behind. (Dickens) 6. Take care, Caroline. I've proposed twice now. I Shall not propose ____ third time. (Maugham)

Exercise 35. Insert another or the other.

(D) 1. A person who has not done one half of his day's work by ten o'clock, runs the chance of leaving ____ half undone. (E. Bronte) 2. Her hands lay on her lap motionless, one in ____ loosely clasped. (Maugham) 3. There was ____ silence, not a long one. (Snow) 4. Then, she came and sat down on ____ side of the hearth. (Galsworthy) 5. There was ____ reason why he was disturbed. Though he was ambitious, he had high standards of behaviour. (Snow) 6. Fleur stole ____ look. (Galsworthy) 7. The boy sidled nearer, moving one foot slowly after ____ 8. There was ____ thing I liked in Mrs. Strickland. (Maugham)

Exercise 36. Insert articles where necessary.

(E) A number, the number.

1. Thirteen years of life with Frank Cowperwood had taught her ____number of things. (Dreiser) 2. ____ colonel says our losses have not been heavy. ____ exact number is not yet known. (Greene) 3. To this particular dinner ____ number of people... had been invited. (Dreiser) 4. Those who had any letters to deliver or... any settled plan of going anywhere or doing anything, discussed their prospects ____ hundred times ___ day; and as this class of passengers was small, and ____ number of those who had no prospects whatever was very large, there were plenty of listeners and few talkers. (Dickens) 5. While he was dancing, Cowperwood had occasion to look at Aileen... She passed close to him ____ number of times. (Dreiser) 6. He went up into ____ picture gallery. On ___ bureau there were laid ___ number of letters and things to be attended to. (Galsworthy)

Exercise 37. Insert articles where necessary.

1. What ____ strange feeling it was to be going home when it was not home, and to find that every object I looked at reminded me of ____ happy old home which was like ____ dream I could, never dream again. (Dickens) 2. On her face I saw ____ placid and sweet expression of ____ lady whose picture had looked at me downstairs. It seemed to my imagination as if ____ portrait had grown womanly and ____ original remained ____ child. (Dickens) 3. Rebecca's mother had had ____ educa­tion somewhere and her daughter spoke ____ French with ____ purity and ____ Parisian accent. It was in those days rather ____ rare accom­plishment, and led to her engagement with ____ orthodox Miss Pinkerton. (Thackeray) 4. He had ____ wit, ____ keen sense of ____ humour, ____ sense of pathos. (Dreiser) 5. ____one thing that really interested him in connection with his parents was ____ existence somewhere in ____ east in ____ small city called Lycurgus... of ____ uncle, ____ brother of his father's. (Dreiser) 6. But ____ bed I made up for myself was suf­ficiently uncomfortable to give me ____ wakeful night, and I thought ____ good deal of what ____ unlucky Dutchman had told me. (Maugham) 7. We went down ____ corridors, down ____ stone stairs. We crossed over ____ Park by ____ lake; one of ____ pelicans was spreading its wings. ____ trees were creaking in ____ blustery wind; on ____ grass, ____ first leaves had fallen. It was ____ dark evening, with ____ clouds, low and grey, driving across from ____ west. (Snow) 8. I breathed deeply two or three times, but felt ____ little calmer, ____ enormity of ____ situation was too overpowering. (Clark) 9. . English of ____ 14th century dif­ fers from _____ Modern English. 10. He was young still, and in ____ few years he would look back on all his misery with ____ sadness in which there would be something not unpleasurable. (Maugham) 11. After ____ lights within, it was very dark, and ____ night was enormous and silent with ____ intensity which for ____ moment made her pause in ____ awe. She was in ____ unfamiliar street. It was ____ damp night, with rare stars. (Murdoch) 12. I had often new temptations afterwards to wonder whether it was really singular, or only singular to me, that he, who was ____ most grateful of mankind upon ____ least occasion, should so desire to escape ____ gratitude of others. (Dickens) 13. Large drops of ____ rain, which pattered every now and then against ____ win­dows of ____ chaise, seemed to warn ____ travellers of ____ rapid approach of ____ stormy night. (Dickens) 14. It's pleasant to get used to ____ expensive, ____ soft, ___ comfortable. (Stone) 15. ____ children of ____ poor know but ____ few pleasures. Even ____ cheap delights of ____ childhood must be bought and paid for. (Dickens) 16. And there began for Soames ____ most confused evening he had ever spent. For in his heart were ____ great gladness and ____ great pity, and he must not show ____ sign of either. (Galsworthy) 17. ____ walls, down which ran ___ number and variety of ____ pipes and cables, were painted in two contrasting shades of green ____ dark up to ____ height of five foot, lighter above that. (Clark) 18. In ____ evening ____ weather broke, ____ wind shifted from ____ South to ____ North-East and brought ____ rain first and then ____ sleet and ____ snow. (E. Bronte) 19. ____ Miller said all kinds of beautiful things about ____ friendship, which Hans took down in ____ note-book and used to read over at ____ night, for he was ____ very good scholar. (Wilde) 20. She drew ____ little away from him; then perceived that unwittingly she had done ____ right thing, for he at once tried to take her hand again. And this was her first lesson too in ____ nature of ____ man. (Galsworthy) 21. ____ London train was on ____ point of ____ departure. It was yet ____ early morning, ____ hour of ____ milkmen and ____ postmen. ____ station had ____ chill, unused, deserted look; ____ passengers were few. (Bennett) 22. In ____ hands of ____ strong, like himself when he was at his best, ____ law was ____ sword and ____ shield, ____ trap to place before ____ feet of ____ unwary; ____ pit to dig in ____ path of those who might pursue. (Dreiser) 23. It had been ____ severe winter, and ____ snow lay deep in , ____ gorges of ____ mountains. (Conan Doyle) 24. ____ point is that ____ art now is just ____ subject for conversation; and anything that anybody can understand fat ____ first sight is not worth talking about and therefore not ____ art. (Galsworthy) 25. I do not consider that ____ cigars and whisky he consumed at my expense, and ____ few dollars, borrowed with ____ civil air of, conferring ____, favour upon me, that passed from my pocket to his, were in any way equivalent to ____ entertainment he afforded me. I remained his debtor. (Maugham) 26. He was ____ psycho pathologist as well as ____ student of ____ art, and ____ subconscious had ____ few secrets from him. (Maugham) 27. And now he was in large bedroom over­ looking ____ Thames, ____ chamber with ____ writing table, ____ sofa, ____ telephone, ____ electric bells and ____ massive oak door with ____ lock and ____ key in ____ lock. (Bennett) 28. ____ sun comes up from ____ East and goes down to ____. West. (Shaw) 29. As that day closed in, ____ girl's excitement increased; and when ____ night came on... there was ____ unusual paleness in her cheek, and ___ fire in her eye, that even Sikes observed with ____ astonishment. (Dickens) 30. Mr. Skimpole could play ____ piano and ____ violoncello; and he was ____ composer, had composed half ____ opera once, and played what he composed with ____ taste. After ____ tea we had quite ____ little con­cert, in which Richard and Mr. Jarndyce and I were ____ audience. (Dickens) 31. In ____ civil life, Cassilis was ____ stage-designer on ____ threshold of ___ brilliant career. He was ____ quiet man, mildly handsome, mildly intellectual, mildly witty. He was fond of ____ , women in ____ quiet sort of way, but behaved with them always as if he were in search of ____ good quiet wife. (Hansford Johnson) 32. Though ____ young man was ____ honest fellow, and ____ son of ____ honest fellow, ____ latter had died so early, and his widow had had such struggles to maintain herself, that ____ son was very im­perfectly educated. (Hardy) 33. Next day, Margaret and I had to leave ____ house after ____ tea. ____ weather had not changed. Just as when we arrived, it was ____ evening so tranquil that ____ chimney smoke seemed painted on ____ sky, and in ____ air there was ____ smell of burning leaves. (Snow) 34. They never, one felt, dressed carelessly, said ____ wrong word, were ____ prey to ____ untidy passion. (Greene) 35. Herzogs moved to ____ midwest. (Bellow) 36. She was ____ mountain-bred and ever ____ lover of ____ mountains. She could see ____ little beauty in ____ sea, and that only of ____ terrible and overwhelming kind. (Buck) 37. ____ very tall and very good-looking man who entered seemed about thirty-eight years old. His clean-shav­en face was full of ____ health, his eyes full of _____ light, his dark hair had ____ fleck or two of premature grey in it. (Galsworthy) 38. I've been taught ____ Latin, and ____ Greek, and ____ mathematics. (Eliot). 39. At ____ dusk, on ____ evening of St. Valentine's day, Boldwood sat down to ____ supper as usual. (Hardy) 40. Dinny wrote ____ letter to her brother in which she said nothing of ____ Hallorsen, ____ Saxenden, or ____ Tasburghs, but discoursed in lively fashion of ____ Aunt Em, Boswell and Johnson, ____ Uncle Adrian, ____ Lady Henrietta... (Galsworthy) 41. I guessed that ____ women would like her as much as ____ men, that if there was ____ little tenderness in her nature, there was also no spite. (Hansford Johnson) 42. He left ____ kitchen, went in ____ dining-room and excused himself to ____ Aunt Alexandra, put on his hat and went to ____ town. (Lee)

Exercise 38. Follow the direction for Exercise 37.

1. He had not been here five minutes when ____ vivid flash of lightning was followed by ____ loud peal of thunder, that crashed and rolled away in____ distance with terrific noise; then came another flash of lightning. brighter than ____ other, and ____ second peal of thunder, louder than ____ first. (Dickens) 2. Sedov died on his way to ____ North Pole. Most of ____ members of his expedition died too. ____ Soviet Government built ____ Arctic station at ____ place where Sedov died, and from that station another expedition, this time ____ Soviet expedition, went to ____ North and set ____ Soviet flag over ____ North Pole. 3. Glinka was born in 1804. His uncle had ____ orchestra of his own. Very often ____ boy would take up ____ violon and try to repeat ____ notes and rhythm of ____ music he had heard. In 1818 ____ Glinkas went to St. Petersburg, where Mikhail was placed in ____ boarding school at ____ St. Petersburg Central Pedagogical Institute. In 1830 Glinka went to Italy, where he stayed for ____ number of years. However, it was St. Petersburg that was ____ Glinka's home for ____ greater part of his life. ____ St. Petersburg of Pushkin played ____ great part in ____ Glinka's life. ____ man and ____ human soul are expressed in ____ Glinka's music with ____ deep sincerity and understanding. (Soviet Literature) 4. She [Lillian] was slightly taller than he... and shapely, artistic in ____ form and ____ feature. Her hair was ____ colour of _____ dried English walnut and her complexion waxen, with ____ lips of faint pink and eyes that varied from gray to blue and from gray to brown according to ____ light in which you saw them. Her beauty measured up to his present sense of ____ artistic. (Dreiser) 5. There were ____ number of young women who were very friendly to her, but there were ____ few with whom she was really intimate. ____only person who stood out in her mind was _____ certain Mary Calligan... who had attended ____ school with Aileen in former years and was now ____ teacher in one of ____ local schools. (Dreiser) 6. Dick Stroeve, giving up his work entirely, nursed Strickland with ____ tenderness and ____ sympathy. He was dexterous to make him comfortable, and he exercised ____ cunning of which I should never have thought him capable to induce him to take _____ medicine prescribed by ____ doctor. I shall never forget _____ tactful patience with which he persuaded him to take ____ nourishment. (Maugham) 7. _____ reddish, fitful light was coming from _____ window above. Great God! His picture gallery! He ran to ____ foot of ____ stairs that led up to it. _____ stealthy sound, ____ scent of burn­ing much more emphatic, staggered him. He hurried up ____ stairs and pulled open ____ door. Heavens! ____ far end of ____ gallery, at ____ extreme left corner of ____ house, Was on fire. (Galsworthy) 8. Rosa knocked several times without getting any answer and had stepped back on to ____ pavement to look up at ____ closely curtained windows when ____ door opened very quietly to ____ gap of ____ few inches and _____ pale face peered out. Rosa sprang forwards with such ____ alacrity that _____ owner of ____ face immediately shut _____ door again, and Rosa could hear ____ chain being fixed. With this additional safeguard _____ door opened once more to _____ narrow slit and Rosa could see one pale blue eye looking out at her. (Murdoch) 9. But though so bad ____ painter he had ____ very delicate feeling for _____ art, and to go with him to _____ picture galleries was _____ rare treat. I think I have never known _____ man whose judgement was surer. And he was better educated than ____ most painters. He was not ignorant of ____ kindred arts, and his taste for ____ music and ____ literature gave ____ depth and variety to his comprehension of ____ painting. To ____ young man like myself his advice and guidance was of ____ incomparable value. (Maugham) 10. ____ Volterras had ____ six-room apartment with ____ hall which was like ____ cord holding all ____ small rooms together. ____ kitchen was nearest to ____ front door, then came three bedrooms, and ____ bath, ____ dining room, and, at ____ far end, ____ living room. Despite ____ smallness of ____ rooms, they had ____ neat cosy quality that gave Erik ____ comfortable feeling. (Wilson) 11. Mrs. Pryor looked round her, and spoke of ____ neighbourhood as she had once before seen it long ago. She... compared its aspect with that of other parts of England: revealing in quiet, unconscious touches of description ____ sense of ____ picturesque, ____ appreciation of ____ beautiful or ____ commonplace, ____ power of comparing ____ wild with ____ cultured... that gave to her discourse ____ graphic charm as pleasant as it was unpretending. (Ch. Bronte) 12. They found themselves in ____ matted hall, lined almost to ____ ceiling with ____ pictures; through this they were conducted to ____ large parlour, with ____ magnificent fire in ____ grate; ____ most cheerful of rooms it appeared as ____ whole, and when you came to examine details, ____ enlivening effect was not diminished. There was no splendour, but there was ____ taste everywhere, ____ taste, you would have said, of ____ travelled man, ____ scholar, and ____ gentleman. ____ series of Italian views decked ____ walls; each of them was ____ specimen of ____ true art; ____ connoisseur had selected them. (Ch. Bronte) 13. Mrs. Dubedut is _____ arrestingly good-looking young woman. She has some­ thing of ____ grace and romance of ____ wild creature, with ____ good deal of ____ elegance and dignity of ____ fine lady. She has ____ figureon which any dress would look well, and carries herself with ____ unaffected distinction of ____ woman whq has never in her life suf­fered from those doubts and fears as to her social position which spoil ____ manners of ____ most middling people. (Shaw) 14. "I know," said Darnay, "that between you and Miss Manette there is ____ affection so unusual, so touching, so belonging to ____ circumstances in which it has been nurtured, that it. can have ____ few parallels, even in ____ tenderness between ____ father and ____ child." (Dickens) 15. It is hard that ____ man's exterior should tally so little sometimes with his soul. Dirk Stroeve had ____ passion of Romeo in ____ body of Sir Toby Belch. He had ____ sweet and generous nature, and yet was always blundering; ____ real feeling for what was beautiful and ____ capacity to create only what was commonplace; ____ peculiar delicacy of sentiment and ____ gross manners. He could exercise ____ tact when dealing with ____ affairs of others, but none when dealing with his own. What ____ cruel practical joke ____ old Nature played when she flung so many contradictory elements together, and left ____ man ____ face to ____ face with ____ perplexing callousness of ____ Universe. (Maugham) 16. Charmian, who had taken ____ great fancy to Ellen, spoke of her warmly. At last, she felt, here was ____ suitable wife for me; and she did her best to jockey me into ____ marriage. ____ experience of worrying about my future was ____ soothing one to her, taking her mind off her own troubles. (Hansford Johnson)

Exercise 39. Comment on the use of articles or their absence.

1. You can't become prime minister at once. (Shaw) 2. I be­gan once at a dinner to tell a good story. (Jerome K. Jerome) 3. The scene of yesterday was quite transformed. The sea was now pale and almost colourless, yet at the same time brilliant, a sea of liquid light. It merged without a boundary into a sky which at the horizon was of an equal pallor, though changing at the ze­nith to a very pale vibrating blue. Here and there in the far dis­tance, as if suspended motionless between sea and sky, there were small sailing-boats with triangular sails. (Murdoch) 4. Mr. Pickwick observed that fame was dear to the heart of every man. Poetic fame was dear to the heart of his friend Snodgrass; the fame of conquest was equally dear to his friend Tupman; and the desire of earning fame in the sports of the field, the air, and the water was uppermost in the breast of his friend Winkle. (Dickens) 5. The evening had already deepened into night. (Dreiser) 6. I know he couldn't love a Linton. (E. Bronte) 7. "John, dear," said Bella, "You're a good nurse; will you please hold baby?" (Dickens) 8. I must remind you again that Adam had the blood of the peasant in his veins. (Eliot) 9. She comes home to a late tea, and after tea she never sews. (Ch, Bronte) 10. He was already chairman of the department. (Wilson) 11. Thus he stood by the bank of this still lake... marvelling at the subtleties of reflected radiance, feeling the artist's joy in perfect natural beauty. (Dreiser) 12. This is Professor Hallorsen, who was head of the expedition. (Galsworthy)13. Winter and summer a stove was burning in his room, stoked by Peter Saward's landlady, a Miss Glashan, who also brought him his meals and did the cleaning. (Murdoch) 14. George got out his banjo after supper and wanted to play it, but Harris objected. He said he had got a headache. George thought the music might do him good - said music often soothed the nerves and took away a headache. Harris said he would rather have the headache. (Jerome K. Jerome) 15. A full moon rode between the elm trees and there was silence as of the grave. (Galsworthy) 16. The world is all be­ fore him where to choose. A life of stirring work and interest, a life of change and excitement, a life of domestic ease and love! (Dickens) 17. After all, we all live in the future, even if it's a future where we aren't to be found anywhere upon the earth. (Murdoch) 18. But, ere that moment, an astonishing and vivid experience happened to them. One might have supposed that, in the life of Priam Farle at least, enough of the astonishing and the vivid had already happened. (Bennett) 19. There was a certain dignity in the little elderly gentleman's manner of rebuking these youths; though it was not, perhaps, quite the dignity most appro­priate to the occasion. (Ch. Bronte) 20. I went into the war when I was seventeen, ran away from school to do it, enlisting as a Tommy and telling them I was nineteen. (Priestley) 21. Phuong was drinking a glass of orange juice and I was having a beer and we sat in silence, content to be together. (Greene) 22. So it was that on the following day, which was a Saturday, Rosa was knocking on Mrs. Wingfield's door at about four o'clock. (Mur­doch).