Articles. Test.

TEST

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1. In …. spring of …. following year we went …. abroad and were absent several months.

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1. …. day after my talk with Isabel I left …. Chicago for …. San Francisco where I was to take ship for …. far East.

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1. After ... lunch they sat down under the oak tree drinking … Turkish coffee.

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1. I had scarcely got into … bed when a strain of … music seemed to break forth in … air just below my window.

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1. But after … fortnight of … bad weather it cleared. “Let’s see how … weather turns out?” – he said and took a chair nearer at … hand.

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1. At … tea, which they both took with … lemon, John spoke about … Bahamas.

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1. … map of … world, until … end of … fifteenth century exhibited only … one hemisphere, and even that was not completely explored.

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1. As … weather was fine, they had … pleasant walk across … park, which stretched along … Thames.

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1. On … first of … May, after their last year together at … college, Frank and Robert were on … tram.

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1. At that time of … year the wild animals - … lion, … gazelle and … antelope also wander further to … south.

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1. After … tea Edgar and the brothers received … permission to leave … table.

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1. “I am in … hurry. Turn to … left in High Street and drive me down to … East End”, - I ordered taking my seat.

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1. Through an open window a peak of … Balkans, wonderfully white and beautiful in … starlit snow seems quite close at … hand.

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1. … great Sahara, that frightful desert of … vast scorching sand, stretching from … Red Sea to … Atlantic, is cleft by one solitary thread of … water.

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1. It was … late evening, and after … lamp-heated air of … dining-room, … coolness of … night was delicious.

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1. He walked into … Green Park that he might cross to … Victoria Station and take … underground into … City.

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1. … rice, … jute, … indigo, … opium oilseeds, and … tea are … principle articles which come into export trade from … Calcutta.

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1. They reached … outskirts of … forest, and saw … lights of … village in which they dwelled.

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1. ‘ … telephone may quicken some of … labours, but it hardly lightens them, since by its power to interrupt it usually wastes quite as much time as it otherwise saves”, he said with … laughter.

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1. He came into … lounge. … woman with … dark hair and … thin straight face was arranging some flowers in the hall.

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1. What … wonderful frame it is! Is it made of … birch? … birch is my favourite tree.

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1. They went … side by … side, … hand in … hand silently towards the hedge, where … mayflowers, both pink and white, were in … full blossom.

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1. There are several ways of capturing … tigers. But … hunters must be very careful because … tiger is … ferocious beast.

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1. During … last ten years she has been … head mistress of … elementary school.

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Keys.

1. A

2. D

3. B

4. B

5. D

6. C

7. C

8. D

9. D

10. C

11. A

12. C

13. A

14. B

15. A

16. D

17. A

18. A

19. B

20. D

21. A

22. C

23. D

24. A

25. A