Bài luyện tập nâng cao về mạo từ - Vũ Mai Phương

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1. Cô Vũ Mai Phương - KHÓA NGỮ PHÁP BÀI LUYỆN TẬP NÂNG CAO VỀ MẠO TỪ (EXERCISES) I/ ARTICLES (A, AN, THE OR X) Exercise 1. Put "an", "a", "the" and nothing. 1. My birthday is ___ Sunday afternoon. 2. It doesn't often snow here at ___ Christmas. We haven't had ___ White Christmas for many years. 3. We came here in ___ summer of ___ 1969. 4. ___ Thanks giving is in ___ November. The Church of England dates from ___ year 1534. I like driving at ___ night. The roads are quite. Oh, I don't like driving in ___ park. I'd rather travel during ___ day. 5. - Are you doing anything at ___ weekend? - I don't think so. - Well, come over on ___ Sunday. 6. ___ meals we had weren't very good. We had ___ breakfast in the hotel and that wasn't too bad. We usually went out for ___ lunch because ___ lunch they served in the hotel was always the same ___ dinner we had in our first evening was pretty a few, so we tried a few restaurants. On our last evening we had ___ marvelous dinner in a Chinese restaurant, but that was an exception. 7. Rita plays ___ violin and her sister plays ___ guitar. 8. On our trip to ___ Spain, we crossed ___ Atlantic Ocean. 9. David attended ___ Princeton University. 10. ___ Florida State University is smaller than ___ University of Florida. 11. ___ chair that you are sitting in is broken. 12. ___ Civil War was fought in ___ United States between 1861 and 1865. 13. ___ big books on ___ table are for my history class. Exercise 2. Write a or an in the space 1. ___ unreasonable decision 8. ___ T shirt 2. ___ universal problem 9. ___ happy girl 3. ___ unit of work. 10. ___ H-bomb 4. ___ eucalyptus tree 11. ___ elephant 5. ___ honorable man. 12. ___ hospital 6. ___ X- ray 13. ___ BBC programme 7. ___ UFO. 14. ___ UNESCO worker Exercise 3. Put in a, an or some or leave a space.
2. Cô Vũ Mai Phương - KHÓA NGỮ PHÁP 1. Have you got ___ camera? 2. Would you like to be ___ actor. 3. Bill's got ___ big feet. 4. Do you collect ___ stamps? 5. Tom always gives Ann ___ flowers on her birthday. 6. Those are ___ really nice trousers. Where did you get them? 7. What ___ beautiful garden! 8. What ___ lovely children! 9. ___ birds, for example the penguin, cannot fly. 10. Jack has got ___ very long legs, so he's ___ fast runner. 11. You need ___ visa to visit ___ foreign countries, but not all of them . 12. I'm going shopping. I'm going to get ___ new clothes. 13. Jane is ___ teacher. Her parents were ___ teachers too. 14. When we reached the city centre, ___ shops were still open but most of them were already closed. 15. Do you enjoy going to ___ concerts? 16. When I was ___ child, I used to be very shy. Exercise 4. Put suitable articles into blanks. 1. John is ___ teacher. He's teaching in ___ school in London. Every morning, he gets up at 7 o'clock, has ___ breakfast and ___ cup of ___ coffee. Then he goes to work by bus. He has ___ lunch at ___ restaurant (near ___ school). In the afternoon he works until 5 or 5.30 and then goes ___ home. He doesn't work on ___ Saturday or Sunday. He goes to ___ cinema or theatre. John has ___ sister in Oxford and ___ brother in ___ London. 2. There are millions of stars in ___ space. 3. I'm going away at ___ end of this month. 4. The sun is ___ star. 5. What did you have for ___ breakfast? 6. Have you got ___ car? 7. How much are those potatoes? 1.20 ___ kilo. 8. Can you think ___ rich should pay more taxes to help ___ poor? Exercise 5. Put suitable articles into blanks.
3. Cô Vũ Mai Phương - KHÓA NGỮ PHÁP 1. He is ___ honest person. 2. My father went out to ___ sea when he was 14. 3. When do you hope to go to ___ university? 4. There's a strike at ___ hospital. 5. He is___ one-eyed man. 6. There's ___ onion left in the fridge. 7. This is___ useful method of learning English. 8. I've got ___ uncle. 9. Your shoes are under___ bed. 10. There's a splendid view of___ Lake Geneva from his hotel. Exercise 6. Choose the correct answer. 1. The British Prime Minister live in Downing Street/the Downing Street. 2. One of the nicest parks in London is St. James's Park/the St. James's Park, which is very near Buckingham Palace/the Buckingham Palace. 3. Frank is a student at Liverpool University/the Liverpool University. 4. Mr. Jenkins reads Daily Telegraph/the Daily Telegraph but his wife reads Times/the Times. 5. We flew from London to Orly Airpot/the Orly Airpot in Paris. 6. Mary and Peter got married in St. Matthew's Church/the Matthew's Church. 7. Some children hate school/the school. 8. After leaving school/the school, Nora worked as a cleaner in hospital /at the hospital 9. All over the world, people are in prison/the prison because of their political beliefs. 10. The other day the fire-brigade had to go to prison/the prison to put out a fire. 11. On the way to London we passed through a small village with an old church. We stopped to visit church/the church. It was a beautiful building. 12. John's mother is a regular churchgoer. She goes to church/the church every Sunday. John himself doesn't go to church/the church. 13. Apples/the apples are good for you. 14. Women/the women are often better teachers then men/the men. 15. In Britain coffee/the coffee is more expensive than tea/the tea. 16. Most people/the most people still believe that marriage/the marriage and family life/the family life are the basic of our society. 17. Life/the life would be very difficult without electricity/the electricity.
4. Cô Vũ Mai Phương - KHÓA NGỮ PHÁP 18. Skiing/the skiing is my favourite sport but I also like swimming/the swimming. 19. Second World War/the Second World Ward ended in 1945. 20. Don't stay in that hotel. Beds/the beds are very uncomfortable. Exercise 7. Put suitable articles into blanks if necessary. 1. After ___ lunch, we went for ___ wall by ___ sea. 2. Don't sit on ___ ground. It's wet. 3. On ___ Sunday my father stay in ___ bed till ten o'clock reading ___ Sunday paper. 4. He's got ___ job in ___ South and spent ___ next two years doing ___ work he really enjoyed. 5. My mother goes to ___ church in ___ morning and in ___ afternoon goes to visit ___ friends. 6. ___ post man's little boy says that he'd rather be ___ dentist than ___ doctor because ___ dentists don't get called out at ___ night. 7. This morning I bought ___ newspaper and ___ magazine ___ newspaper is in my bag, but I don't know where ___ magazine is. 8. My parents have ___ cat and ___ dog. ___ dog never bites ___ cat, but ___ cat often scratched ___ dog. 9. We live in ___ old house in ___ middle of town. There is ___ garden behind ___ house. ___ roof of ___ house is in bad condition. Exercise 8. Which is correct or more likely, a/an or one? If both a/an and one are possible, write them both. 1. It weights over ___ hundred kilos. 2. I only asked for ___ pizza - I didn't want three of them. 3. I wouldn't allow ___ child of mine to be treated in that way. 4. It only took us ___ week to drive to Greece. 5. I've always wanted to own ___ silver - coloured car. 6. ___ sandwich isn't enough. I usually eat four or five 7. Policies differ from ___ state to another. 8. Less than three quarters of ___ hour later, she was home. 9. All of the competitors completed the race, with just ___ exception. 10. She left home late ___ morning and hasn't been seen since. 11. The best way to learn___ musical instrument is to find ___ enthusiastic teacher.
5. Cô Vũ Mai Phương - KHÓA NGỮ PHÁP 12. Somewhere in the distance, ___ bell rang. 2. MANY/ MUCH/ A FEW/ FEW/ LITTLE/ A LITTLE Exercise 1. Put into the blanks with many or much 1. How ___ people are there in this room? 2. There is ___ sugar in the box. 3. How ___ meat does your mother need? 4. How ___ glasses of orange juice do you want? 5. There are ___ school boys in our class. 6. How ___ bacon does Susan have? Exercise 2. Complete these sentences with little/ a little/few/a few. 1. We didn't have any money but Tom had ___. 2. He doesn't speak much English. Only ___ words. 3. Nora's father died ___ years ago. 4. "Would you like some more cakes?" "Yes, please, but only ___. 5. This town isn't very well-known and there isn't much to see, so ___ tourist come here. 6. I don't think Jill would be a good teacher. She's got ___ patience with children. 7. This is not the first time the car has broken down. It has happened ___ times before. 8. The cinema was almost empty. There were very ___ people there. 9. There is a shortage of water because there has been very ___ rain recently. Exercise 3. Chose a word or words form the box to complete the sentences. Some are used more than one. Too much a few any How many too many Enough as much as How much some too many as many as a little 1. "___ cigarettes do you smoke a day?" "Forty". "That's ___. You shouldn't smoke ___ at all. 2. “ ___ alcohol do you drink?" "About a bottle of wine a day". "That's ___. You shouldn't drink ___ that". 3. “___ do you weigh?". "Sixteen and a half stone". "That's ___. You should try to lose ___ weight".
6. Cô Vũ Mai Phương - KHÓA NGỮ PHÁP 4. “___ do you earn?". "Not ___ money to pay all my bills!". 5. "___ people are there in your class?". "Forty". "I think that's ___.” 6. “___aspirins do you take when you have a headache?". "About ten or twelve". "That's ___. You mustn't take ___ that". 7. "How old are you?". "Seventeen. I'm old ___ to get married, but I'm not old ___ to vote!". 8. "When did you last go to the cinema?". "Quite recently. Just ___ days ago." 9. "Do you take sugar in your coffee?". “Just ___”. Exercise 4. Fill into gaps a indefinite quantifier: much, many, lots of, a lot of, little, most, a little, little, a few, few. 1. It seems to me that we've had ___ assignments in English 2. How ___ material can we be expected to read in one week? 3. ___ books are not in the library. 4. I've had ___ headaches already because of stress. 5. ___ depression can be attributed to being overworked. 6. Our yard looks awful this summer. There are too ___ weeds. 7. I didn't use ___ fertilizer last spring, and that has made a difference. 8. Also, I've paid ___ attention to how ___ rain we've had. 9. I'm afraid it's rained ___ times this summer, and the grass is turning brown and dying. 10. ___ experts say you should fertilize your lawn in the fall. 11. It didn't seem to do my lawn ___ good. 12. ___ advice you get from experts doesn't seem to help 13. ___ of my neighbors ignore their grass, and they have better lawns this year. 14. They say ___ knowledge is a bad thing. 15. I know ___ instances where that proves true. 16. ___ people know as much about computers as Tomas does.
7. Cô Vũ Mai Phương - KHÓA NGỮ PHÁP 17. But it does him ___ good when the whole system goes down. Exercise 5. Choose the best answer to complete these sentences. 1. How ___ people are coming? (a) lots (b) much (c) a lot (d) many 2. There have been ___ crimes since the police new task force was created (a) any (b) every (c) much (d) fewer 3. I have ___ questions for you. Do you have a minute to discuss them with me? (a) several (b) every (c) each (d) none 4. I go to the gym ___ day. I like my weekly routine and exercise makes me happy. (a) many (b) some (c) every (d) lots of 5. ___ of the dogs are nice. We're training the ones that are not friendly. (a) A lot (b) Much (c) Every (d) Numerous 6. ___ of the kids at school are mean to me. What should I do? (a) Much (b) Every (c) Some (d) Any 7. I water the plants ___ other day. I think I'm watering them too much. (a) much (b) all (c) every (d) lots of 8. I bought a toy for ___ of you. (a) each (b) every (c) much (d) any 9. I like ___ of the cars. I don't know which one to choose. (a) every (b) much (c) numerous (d) both 10. ___ complaints have been made about the noise level at this house. Please turn the music down. I'm going to give you a warning for now. (a) Every (b) Each (c) Much (d) Numerous Exercise 6. Choose the best answer to complete these sentences. 1. "___ of you will graduate in June, but others will not. This is a competitive course, so good luck," the engineering professor said. (a) Much (b) Every (c) Some (d) Any 2. There is too ___ traffic in this city. I want to move to the country. (a) many (b) few (c) much (d) a lot 3. There is ___ of noise coming from the house next door. Can you go over there and ask them to keep it down? It's almost midnight. (a) much (b) many (c) fewer (d) a lot 4. You have to get a second job because we need ___ money to make ends meet.