冠词

【巩固练习】

用a, an或the填空，不需要的地方用 “/” 表示。 1. I won’t get there by bus. I’ll take taxi. 2. They’re going to countryside in October.

3. Julia is hard-working girl. She bought useful dictionary yesterday.

4. On Children’s Day, Bob’s father bought new bike for him. 5. It’s long way from earth to moon.

6. lot of people in our country care for old and poor. 7. No one could live without air or water. 8. There is interesting book for you to read. 9. You will have good time at party.

10. Tina often has apple and egg for breakfast. 11. She told us interesting story.

12. There is table in middle of my room. On table there is flower.

13. I go swimming twice week. 14. Open door, please. 15. We can’t live without air. 16. Chinese people are brave. 17. We have lunch at 11:30.

18. earth is smaller than sun. 19. I like playing basketball.

20. There is “s” in word “purse”.

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【要点点拨】

冠词分为不定冠词(a; an)和定冠词the两种，一般放在名词前，表示泛指或特指。 ★不定冠词的基本用法

a, an多用于单数可数名词前，表示“一个(块、条……)”。a用于辅音音素开头的名词前, 如a dog。an用于元音音素开头的名词前, 如an orange。 ★定冠词的基本用法

定冠词the可表示特指或上文提过的人或事物。the还表示世界上独一无二的东西，如the sun；用于一些乐器名词前，如play the guitar；用于某些名词前，指整个民族、一家人等, 如the Chinese people，the Whites；用于形容词前，表一类人，如the old；用于江、河、海、洋、山脉、海峡名称前；如the Yangtze River；用于最高级和序数词前, 如the cleverest boy，the first day；用在某些固定词组中，如all the same; by the way等。 ★不用冠词的情况

下列情况不用冠词: 物质名词或抽象名词前；季节、月份、星期、节日前；日常饮食前；球类运动或学科名词前；多数街名、广场名、车站、机场、公园、桥梁、大学名前；称呼语、家庭成员前；表示使用某种交通工具时，名词前一般也不用冠词。

语篇填空

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Once upon 1 ___time, there was 2 ____ old woman living at 3 ____foot of the mountain. She led 4 __ poor life, but she was very kind. She loved animals, and she would prepare food for birds in the windows, just like their owners. A lot of birds such as swallows and sparrows would like to live under her roof. On 5 ___sunny day, a hunter with 6 ___ bow and some arrows appeared near her house and she thought that something bad would happen. So she followed 7 _____hunter and found that he was shooting at 8 ___hare. She was angry and shouted at him loudly. The hunter was scared to death and ran away. When she came up to 9 ____ hare, to her sorrow, she found the hare was injured and lay in 10 _____shadow of a tree without any movement. She brought it home at once and fed it on some herb. After several days, with her intensive care, the hare was recovered finally.

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Today our school organized all the students to take part in 1 ___report at the meeting room in our school. Albert, 2 ____ordinary man, delivered

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a speech on how to learn English. Albert, 3 ___ professor in Beijing University, graduated from 4 ____ English Department of Oxford University in 1985. He said we should form 5 ____habit of previewing English, and this would help to perform well in class. When we study English in class, we must be earnest and active. If so, we can absorb 6 ___large amount of knowledge. After class, we should read more English passages, which is important for the English learners. By doing this, we are not only informed what happens in 7 ____world, but we can also review 8____ large number of former words. After 9____ period of time, we should also sort out our notes and go over what we have learned. In 10 __word, English isn’t difficult to learn, as long as we do what he told us.

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Key:

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(1)本文讲一个爱护动物的年迈妇女阻止一个猎人射击兔子的故事。 1. a 固定短语中，once upon a time意为“从前”。 2. an 表示有“一位”年迈的妇女。

3. the 有特指的of短语修饰，可能将at the foot of (在??的脚下)理解为固定短语。

4. a 因lead a?life (过着??的生活)是固定短语。 5. a 在“一个”阳光明媚的日子。 6. a 表示“一把” 弓。

7. the 特指前面提到过的“那个”猎人。 8. a 第一次出现，指“一只”兔子。 9. the 特指前面提到过的“那只”兔子。 10. the 受表示特指的of短语修饰。

(2)本文主要是讲同学们通过听Albert教授的讲座，学到了一些学习英语的方法。

1. a 泛指，是指一个报告。

2. an 因ordinary是元音音标开头的。an ordinary man意思是“一位普通人”。 3. a 泛指, 这里是指Albert是北京大学的“一名”教授。 4. the 由普通名词构成的专有名词前。

5. the 受表示特指的of短语修饰，form the habit of意为“养成??的习惯”。 6. a 因a large amount of意为“许多”，与不可数名词连用。 7. the 世界上独一无二的事物要用定冠词。

8. a 因a large number of意为“许多”, 与可数名词连用。 9. a 因a period of 意为“一段时间”。 10. a 因in a word意为“总之”。

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