1. Fill the gaps with 'a', 'an', 'the' or 'X' (no article) Frank Crawford is ______ American citizen.

He is also ______ FBI agent (and has ______ ID card to prove it) whose qualifications include ______ M.A. and ______ Ph.D. - and he has ______ I.Q. of 160. Because his father was ______ M.P. in ______ England and his mother, ______ Italian, worked as ______ G.P. there, Frank often sees things from ______ European perspective. He strongly supports ______ idea of ______ united Europe. He was recently in London for ______ one-day conference on ______ organised crime, and he gave ______ speech which lasted ______ hour. (You can get ______ copy of his speech by sending ______ s.a.e. to ______ address below.) When in London he always stays at ______ hotel in ______ Holland Park, near ______ Oxford Street, where he always eats ______ onion sandwich for ______ breakfast. When Frank inherited ______ fortune from ______ uncle recently, he used it to found ______ university and buy ______ x-ray machine for ______ hospital. There was ______ collision between ______ car and ______ cyclist at ______ crossroads near ______ my house early in ______ morning. ______ cyclist was taken to ______ hospital with ______ concussion. ______ driver of ______ car was treated for ______ shock. ______ witnesses say that ______ car was going at ______ seventy miles ______ hour. My aunt lived on ______ ground floor of ______ old house on ______ River Thames. She was very much afraid of ______ burglars and always locked ______ house before she went to ______ bed. She also took ______ precaution of looking under ______ bed to see if ______ burglar was hiding there. 2. Five of the following sentences are correct, some need 'the'. Either put or indicate where the definite article (the) should go. a) Martina is learning to play violin. ______ b) Jennifer is learning to play chess. ______ c)'Is this Oxford road?' said lorry driver. ______ d) John works in a shop in Park Lane. ______ e) This book consists of quotations from great philosophers. ______ f) We reached our destination at sunset. ______ g) Terry spent summer climbing in Alps. ______ h) After they had completed their work in prison, bricklayers moved to another site. ______ i) Mr. Watt refused even to visit home his relatives wanted to put him in. ______ j) History was his favourite subject at school. ______

3. Put 'a', 'an', 'the', 'my', 'his', 'her', 'our', 'your' or 'their' in the gaps if necessary. a) Ask ______ woman in front of you to take off ______ hat. b) Someone threw ______ egg which struck ______ speaker on ______ shoulder. c) He fell down ______ flight of steps and broke ______ leg. d)You'll strain ______ eyes if you read in ______ bad light. e) He was ______ very tall man with ______ dark hair and ______ small beard, but I couldn't see ______ eyes because he was wearing ______ dark glasses.