Exercise 1. Insert articles where necessary.

1. He took her to __ National Gallery, and __ Tate, and __ British Museum, and she really enjoyed it almost as much as she said. (W.S. Maugham)

2. You’re strangely like Titian’s portrait of Francis I in __ Louvre. (W.S. Maugham)

3. They went out very little: to an occasional play, or to dinner at __ Ritz or __ Princeton Club. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)

4. Larry had reserved __ table at__ Maxim’s. (W.S. Maugham)

5. Jack could not get to the dinner. He waited for the others in front of __ Hollywood Theatre. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)

6. Afternoon at __ Plaza, with winter twilight hovering outside and faint drums downstairs. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)

7. So they stored the furniture, gave instructions to sublet, and shook hands gloomily in __ Pennsylvania Station. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)

8. She was glad to go back to __ Gausse’s Hotel. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)

9. They were meeting the others in two minutes, and Rosemary reconstructed herself once more as they got out of the taxi in the Rue Guynemer, across from __ Luxembourg Gardens. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)

10. Widgett was overemphasizing his ts and ss as if he was Laurence Olivier on stage at __ Old Vic. (H. Fielding)

11. When he was twenty-two, he was admitted to __ Harvard Law School. (S. Sheldon)

12. “Everything you hear here stays here, understood? Or you’ll be taken to __ Tower.” (H. Fielding)

13. She crossed the road to get a better view of the campy grandeur of the Versace mansion and the art deco hotels – whites, pinks, lilacs, oranges – __ Pelican, __ Avalon, __ Casa Grande. Curves and funnels suggesting trains and ocean liners. (H. Fielding)

14. __ Manhattan Central Hospital was a dilapidated, ugly-looking building located on the East Side between 68^th and 69^th Streets, and it took up an entire block. (S. Sheldon)

15. __ Prince Charles shows a combination of arty films and films that were on release ages ago. (M. Gayle)

16. __ Festival Hall was crowded with music aficionados. (S. Sheldon)

17. The ballroom at __ Waldorf Astoria was crowded with patrons of __ Carnegie Hall. (S. Sheldon)

18. It’s early evening and I’m just coming out of __ Wood Green Station to meet Caitlin for the first time in nearly fifteen years. (M. Gayle)

19. The next day, Simon Piperstock made several calls from the first-class lounge at __ Kennedy International Airport. (C. Bushnell)

20. Carrie was at __ Rockefeller Center, thinking about the ghosts of __ Christmas Past. (C. Bushnell)

21. “My mother taught me until I was fourteen, and then they sent me to study at __ Curtis Institute in Philadelphia.” (S. Sheldon)

22. When Lara was fifteen, she entered __ St Michael’s High School. (S. Sheldon)

23. They had supper at __ Bali restaurant on Leidsestraat. (S. Sheldon)

24. __ White’s Club was situated at the top of St. James’s Street, near Piccadilly. (S. Sheldon)

25. One of Elizabeth’s favourite haunts was __ Red Lion Inn at Porto Cervo. (S. Sheldon)

26. The financing for __ Cameron Towers went smoothly. (S. Sheldon)

27. I don’t think that __ Pope Julius and Michelangelo came to a similar kind of arrangement about __ Sistine Chapel. (S. Fry)

28. And in Chicago, Lara started construction on her second hotel, __ Chicago Cameron Plaza. (S. Sheldon)

29. There are two ways into the famous Green Room of __ Theatre Royal, Barton Spa.

30. He got up and left the cinema, and roamed __ streets of Amsterdam. He visited __ Rijksmuseum, and he strolled through __ Botanical Gardens of __ Free University, and window shopped along P.C. Hooftstraat. (S. Sheldon)

31. He had studied in France. He made references which suggested __ Sorbonne, but he was not specific. (H. Fielding)

32. “Where are you staying?”

“At __ Palmer House.” (S. Sheldon)

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