冠  词

1. Tom is __________ European and he is ___________ honest boy.

  A. a, an    B. an, a   C. an, an    D. a, a

答：A。用在辅音前，an用在元音之前。如：a useful book, a one-year-old child, an hour, an honest man.

2. Alexander Graham Bell invented _______  telephone in 1876.

  A. /      B. a     C. the    D. one

答：C。定冠词the接可数名词单数表示整个类属。如想表达“虎面临着灭绝的危险”不能说A tiger is in danger of dying out, 而应说 The tiger is in danger of dying out。

3. There is__________ “h” in the word “honest”.

  A. a    B. the     C. /     D. an

答：D。h的音标是元音开头。

4. _________ Yellow River is ___________ second longest river in our country.

  A. The, a      B. An, an 

  C. The. the     D. /, /

答：C。序数词前常用定冠词。在一些表示地理名词的专有名词，如江，河、海、洋、山脉、群岛、海湾、海峡等同前常使用定冠同。如：the Red Sea, the English Channel, the Pacific Ocean。

5. That’s not our house. It belongs to ____________.

  A. the Turners’  B.  the Turners

  C. the Turner’s  D. Turners

6. Alice is fond of playing __________ piano while Henry is interested in listening to music.

   A. /, the       B. /, /

   C. the, /       D. the, the

答：C。球类、棋类的词前一般不用冠词，但在表示乐器的名词前应用定冠词。不过music(音乐)为不可数名词，属于抽象名词，前不加定冠词．但若表示具体的特指的音乐前可用定冠词，如What do you think of the music in the film? 特指这部影片中的音乐，故应用定冠词。

7. __________ twenty-fifth of December is___________ Christmas Day.

  A. The, a      B. The, the

  C. A, the       D. The, /

答：D。季节、月份、星期、节日、假日、一日三餐前一般不加冠词，如Spring is the best season of the year.如果月份等词被一个限定性定语修饰，就要加冠词，如He joined the Army in the spring of I992。

8. My friend is in. He is still in___________ hospital. I’m going to __________ hospital to see him.

A. the, the     B. /, /     C. /, the    D. the, /