Exercise 3. Insert articles where necessary. (Articles with nouns modified by attributes in post-position.)

1. ____ man of whom I speak is ____ low pantomime actor. 2. Excuse me now, I have to see ____ man who's in trouble. 3.____ people familiar with these moors often miss their road on such evenings. 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. 5. I always think there's something rather cold and cheerless about ____ house that, lacks ____ woman's touch. 6. He stood up and looked at ____ house where he had been born, grown up, and played, as if asking for ____ an­swer. 7. Her throat aches because of ____ tears locked in it. 8. I am persuaded that this will be ____ shock of which he will feel ____ effects all his life. 9. There were half ____ dozen pocket robberies ____ day in ____ trams of Brussels. 10. There we were in ____ country none of us knew anything about, amongst Indians and ____ people that were only half civilised. 11. At last they reached ____ door at which ____ servant knocked cautiously. 12. We passed ____ set of chambers where I had worked as ____ young man. 13. It is in ____ hour of trial that ____ man finds his true profession. 14. We dropped into ____ very pleasant nook under ____ great elm tree, to ____ spreading roots of which we fastened ____ boat. 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. 16. He was staring at ____ waves like ____ man cor­nered by ____ strange animal. 17. You don't know ____ man you are married to. 18. He spoke with a very slow, dis­tinct voice and always looked over ____ shoulder of ____ person to whom he was talking. 19. There had been at ____ dining table ____ middle-aged man with ____ dark eye and ____ sunburnt face, who had attracted Martin's attention. 20. And he had tea sitting on ____ edge of ____ chair that did not look too firm, all gilt and spindly. 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. 22. Colonel Mordaunt does not look like ____ man who would do ____ mean or dishonourable thing. 23. She is ____ elderly matron who has worked hard and got nothing by it. 24. He was, in fact, ____younger edition of his father. 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? 26. During ____ twenty minutes Michael took to read ____ poem, there was not ____ sound, except from the sheets being turned. 27. Rosa then noticed with surprise that she was in ____ room in which ____ party had been held.

Exercise 4. 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 5. 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.2. You will be wishing to have ____ tea after your journey, I'm thinking. 3. George said that we must take ____ rug, ____ lamp, ____ soap, ____ brush and ____ comb, ____ tooth-brush, ____ tooth-powder and ____ couple of big towels for bathing. 4. ____ children of his age seldom have natural pleasure in ____ soap and water. 5. He bought ____ cold beef, and ____ ham, and ____ French bread and butter, and came back with his pockets pretty heavily laden.6. There were two bottles of ____ wine, ____ plate of ____ oranges with ____ powdered sugar. 7. Here, have     champagne, I quite forgot to offer you any, or would you rather have ____ tea? 8. She made ____ coffee. 9. ____coffee without ____ bread could never honestly serve as supper.10. ____ rest of us had finished eating, but Cave had cut himself another slice of ____ cheese.11. Mrs. Leek frankly gave way to ____ soft tears while eating ____ bread-and-butter. 12. You've caught cold: I saw you shivering, and you must have ____ gruel to drive it out. 13. She did not answer, but her face was hard and pale as____ stone. 14. She hurried in again and found ____ water almost boiled away.   15. ____ blood is thicker than ____ water.16. She went about looking into ____ dining room, which had been transformed into ____ kind of jewel box glowing with ____ flowers,  ____ silver, ____ gold, ____ tinted glass. 17. You drank, ____ wine with breakfast, dinner and supper, and fifty people always drank it with you.18. She looked with ____ eager, hungry eyes at ____ bread and ____ meat and ____ beer that ____ landlady brought her. 19. She wears _____ little sailor hat of ____ black straw that has long been exposed to ____ dust and soot of London. 20. The mother was yellow in colour and her skin resembled ____ leather.

Exercise 6. 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! 7. Я ходил по аллее и думал о вишневом варенье.