Fill in the gaps with the correct article (a, an, the, 0) when necessary.

I am from Winchester, Hampshire. Winchester is______ city in ____ United Kingdom. I live
in ____ town called _____ Taunton which is on ______ River Tone. I live in ___ house in
______ quiet street in _____ countryside. ____ street is called Hudson Street and _____
house is more than 100 years old! I am ___ English lecturer at _____ college near
_____center of _____town. I like _____ books, music and taking _____ photographs. I
usually have _____ lunch at college. I usually go --___home____ by___ car. We have all
kinds of food in _____ England. I like ______ Polish food very much. Sometimes, I go to
_____ Polish restaurant in Bath. ____ restaurant is called Magdas. _____ Polish food is
delicious.
1.Robert and Jessica went to ____ party last night.
2.Can you tell me how to get to ____ cinema from here?
3.____ college is closed today.
4.Gregory is one of ____ strangest people I know.
5.I recommend you try ____ tomato soup at this restaurant.
6.____ beer is not good for you.
7.Would you like to see ____ film?
8.____ apple a day keeps ____ doctor away.
9. I can't believe I failed ____ yesterday's test!
10.Do you have ____ dictionary that I can borrow?
11.There were many dogs in the park. One dog was ____ Dalmatian.
12.Pandas and ____ tigers are both endangered animals.
13.Magda is wearing ____ blue dress with red shoes
14.Bornholm is ___ island in the Baltic Sea.
15.Christmas comes once ___ year.
16.___ owl is ___ bird.
17.The Severn is ____ river.
18.Jane went to the shop to buy ____ bread.
20.Tom took ____ umbrella as it was raining heavily.
21.This is ____ easy question.
22.Stephen could you speak ____ little louder.
23.May I have your ____ phone number?
24.I have never seen ____ UFO. 25.May I ask you ___ question?
25.Ismail is ____ best teacher in our school.
26What is ____ name of the next station?
27.My friend has ____ my car today.
28.I went to ____ sea during my summer holiday.
29.Is there ____ cash machine near here?

Articles Exercise 1

Exercise based on the opening text in Thanks a Million Please

complete the following exercise using a/an/the/0 (no article) in the
underlined spaces where appropriate. Change capital letters to
lower case letters at the beginning of a sentence if necessary.
Ms Parrot, (1) ___ most famous lady detective of (2) ___ twenty-first
century, was born in (3) ___ United Kingdom in (4) ___ 1960s. Since then,
she has been to many countries, including (5) ___ Portugal, Singapore and
Australia, and has lived in (6) ___ northern hemisphere and (7) ___
southern hemisphere, as well as on (8) ___ equator. She has never been to
(9) ___ Philippines or (10) ___ United States, but she speaks (11) English,
French and Portuguese. Like Sherlock Holmes, (12) ___ famous detective,
she plays (13) ___ violin, and sometimes practises up to five times (14) ___
day. She is also (15) ___ only person in (16) ___ world to have performed
Tchaikovskys 1812 overture [a long piece of music] in one breath on (17)
___ recorder. She has been (18) ___ detective for thirty years and claims
that although many people think that being (19) ___ detective is (20) ___
piece of cake, detectives generally work very hard and its not all fun and
games. (21) ___ detective is someone who solves mysteries, and (22) ___
people who contact Ms Parrot have some very unusual problems. Little
information is available about some of (23) ___ cases she has solved, but
quite (24) ___ few of her most famous cases have attracted worldwide
attention and she has been offered up to (25) ___ thousand dollars (26) ___
hour to help solve mysteries such as (27) ___ case of (28) ___ Australian
owl in (29) ___ uniform. (30) ___ bird laid (31) ___ egg in (32) ___ European
nest in less than (33) ___ hour after its arrival. What (34) ___ strange
problem! With great (35) ___ modesty, she has either declined such (36)
___ fee or donated (37) ___ money to (38) ___ poor, or to (39) ___ Grammar
Survival Fund, believing that (40) ___ detective should use their skills for
(41) ___ common good.