Exercise 1. Insert articles where necessary. (Articles with class-nouns.)

1. Not ____ word was spoken in ____ parlour. 2. ____ room itself was filling up, so was ____ staircase. 3. I think that ____ man's life is worth saving, whoever it belongs to. 4. Though ____ earth was cold and wet, ____ sky was clear and ____ , sun rose bright and beautiful. 5. He made them provide not one car, but half ____ dozen. 6. ____ compass was inven­ted in ancient China. 7. Not ____ word was spoken, not____ sound was made. 8. ____ sky outside ____ window was already dark, ____ secretaries had gone home, all was quiet. 9. Ed­ward remained ____ week at ____ cottage. 10. I tell you, he's as brave as ____ man can reasonably be. 11. After that they would meet, perhaps, two or three times ____ year. 12. Diane looked up at ____ house and suddenly saw ____ face in ____ window of ____ dining-room. 13. You know I never cared for____ drama. 14. "It is not ____ large house," I said. "We don't want ____ large house." 15. He looks older than he is, as ____ dark men often do. 16. Roger looked at him and, without ____ word, took out his wallet and gave him ____ ten-shilling note. 17. As ____ man sows, so shall he reap. 18. This morn­ing ____ tobacconist was at his door. 19. It was Sunday afternoon, and ____ sun, which had teen shining now for several hours, was beginning to warm ____ earth. 20. I have ____ long story to tell you. Come and sit down on ____ sofa and let us have ____ comfortable chat. 21. ____ arm in ____ arm, they walked toward home. 22. It was ____ cottage built like ____ mansion, having ____ central hall with ____ , wooden gallery running round it, and ____ rooms no bigger than ____ closets. 23. And what ____ beautiful moth there is over there on ____ wall. 24. She had ____ key of her own. 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. 26. ____ old couldn't help ____ young. 27. To him she would always be ____ loveliest woman in ____ world. 28. ____ strongest have their hours of depression. 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.30. I am afraid I addressed ___ wrong person.. 31. They must have had very fair notions of ____ artistic and ____ beautiful. 32. ____ rich think they can buy anything. 33. ____ room has three doors; one on ____ same side as ____ fireplace, near ____ corner, leading to ____ best bedroom. 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. 35. Thank you, Stephen: I knew you would give me ____ right advice. 36. Sometimes visitors rang ____ wrong bell. 37. My family came from hereabouts some generations back. I just wanted to have ____ look at ____ place, and ask you ____ question or two. 38. ____ woman will only be the equal of ____ man when she earns her living in ____ same way that he does. 39. He arri­ved half ____ hour before dinner time, and went up to ____ school­ room a ____ top of ____ house, to see ____ children. 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. 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. 42. ____ man who entered was short and broad. He had black hair, and was wearing ____ grey flannel trousers with ____ red woollen shirt, open at ____ neck, whose collar he carried outside ____ lapels of his dark tweed jacket. 43. Believe me, when ____ woman really makes up her mind to marry ____man nothing on God's earth can save him. 44. I stopped still uncertain of myself and whether I was saying ____ right thing. 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. 46. I believe I can tell ____ very moment I began to love him. 47. We are told that ____ heart of ____ man is deceitful above all  things, and desperately wicked. 48. "I must do it," said Adam; "it's ____ right thing."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. 50. ____ bartender was ____ pale little man in ____ vest and apron, with ____ pale, hairy arms and ____ long, nervous nose. 51. ____ face to ____ face, he was as warm and easy-natured as he had ever been.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. 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. 54. Almost at ____ very moment when she had returned Aileen had appeared. 55. ____ old man quitted ____ house secretly at ____ same hour as before.56. We are told that ____ wicked shall be punished. 57. ____ arm in ____ arm we walked on, sometimes stumbling over ____ hump of earth or catching our feet in ____ rabbit-holes. 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.59. When I was ____ child my mother used to make ____ cakes and send me out with them as ____ presents to ____ neighbours. And ____ neighbours would give us ____ presents too, and not only at Christmas time. 60. I wrote to ____ Managing Editor that this was ____ wrong moment to change their correspondent.

Exercise 2. 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.