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May-End Grammar Exercise

The document provides exercises to practice using articles like "a", "an", and possessives. It includes gap fills to practice verbs in passive voice and uses of nouns. The passages cover topics like the construction of the Eiffel Tower and its role over time. The exercises are meant to strengthen grammar and parts of speech usage.

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May-End Grammar Exercise

The document provides exercises to practice using articles like "a", "an", and possessives. It includes gap fills to practice verbs in passive voice and uses of nouns. The passages cover topics like the construction of the Eiffel Tower and its role over time. The exercises are meant to strengthen grammar and parts of speech usage.

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A) Complete the following exercise with “a / an” or the articles.

Put "x" where no article is


needed.

According to _______ National Weather Service, __________ cyclones are ___________ areas
of circulating winds that rotate counterclockwise in __________ Northern Hemisphere and
clockwise in ___________ Southern Hemisphere. They are generally accompanied by some kind
of _____________ precipitation and by _________ stormy weather. ________ tornadoes and
_________ hurricanes are _______ types of cyclones, as are ________ typhoons, which are
storms that occur in western Pacific Ocean. ______________ hurricane is _________ cyclone
that forms over tropical oceans and seas and has _________ winds of at least seventy-four miles
_______ hour. _________ hurricane rotates in ______ shape of _________ oval or __________
circle. _________ hurricanes can cause great environmental damage. _________ Hurricane An-
drew, which hit _________ coasts of Louisiana and southern Florida in August 1992, caused
__________ extreme devastation. In terms of _________ environmental damage, __________
Hurricane Andrew is one of ____________ most devastating hurricanes ever to hit ________
United States. Fourteen people died because of ________ Andrew's effects.

B) Complete the exercise with correct forms of the given nouns. Use each noun only one
time.

attorney beach box cliff

discovery laboratory man match

medium ox piano tooth

1. The age at which the first tooth appears differs greatly from child to child.

Very occasionally, children are born with one or more _________


.
2. I need some ________ to light the fire.

3. Studies are showing that __________ process information differently from

women.

4. Maria needed some legal advice for her businesses, so she contacted two ________.
5. New scientific ____________ are made every day in ____________ throughout the world.

6. The farmer loaded his cart with __________ of fresh vegetables to take to market. His cart
was pulled by two ___________.
.
7. The north side of the island has no ___________ for people to walk on.
There are only steep ___________ . No one can climb theses steep walls of the rock.

8. The music building at the university has 27 ___________ for students to play on.

9. People get most of their news about the world through the mass _________, that is, through
radio, television, the internet, newspapers and magazines.

C) Gap fill exercise -

The Eiffel Tower (BUILD)______________ for the International Exhibition of Paris of 1889
commemorating the centenary of the French Revolution. The Prince of Wales, later King Edward
VII of England, (OPEN) _______________ the tower. Of the 700 proposals (SUBMIT)
____________ in a design competition, Gustave Eiffel's was unanimously chosen. However it
(NOT ACCEPT) _____________ by all at first, and a petition of 300 names - including those of
Maupassant, Emile Zola, Charles Garnier (architect of the Opéra Garnier), and Dumas the
Younger - (PROTEST) _____________ its construction. At 300 meters (320.75 m including an-
tenna), and 7,000 tons, it (BE) _____________ the world's tallest building until 1930.
In 1889, Gustave Eiffel (BEGIN) _____________ to fit the peak of the tower as an observation
station to measure the speed of wind. He also (ENCOURAGE) ____________ several scientific
experiments including Foucault's giant pendulum, a mercury barometer and the first experiment
of radio transmission. In 1898, Eugene Ducretet at the Pantheon, (RECEIVE) __________ sig-
nals from the tower.
The tower (BE) __________ almost torn down in 1909, but (SAVE) _______________ because
of its antenna used both for military and other purposes, and the city (LET) _________ it stand
after the permit expired. When the tower (PLAY) ____________ an important role in capturing
the infamous spy Mata Hari during World War I, it (GAIN) ___________ such importance to the
French people that there (BE) _____________ no more thought of demolishing it.

During its lifetime, the Eiffel Tower (ALSO/WITNES) _____________ a few strange scenes, in-
cluding being scaled by a mountaineer in 1954, and (PARACHUTE) ___________ off in 1984
by two Englishmen. In 1923 a journalist (RIDE) _____________ a bicycle down from the first
level. Some accounts (SAY) ___________ he rode down the stairs. Of the 7.5 million kilowatt
hours of electricity (USE) __________ annually, 580 thousand (USE) ___________ exclusively
to illuminate the tower. The tower's annual operation also (REQUIRE) ______________ the use
of 2 tons of paper for tickets, 4 tons of rag or paper wipes, 10,000 applications of detergents, 400
liters of metal cleansers and 25,000 garbage bags.

D) Complete the sentences in passive voice using the verbs given in brackets -

1) Letters by the postman _______________ at 8 every day. (deliver)


2) This bag _________________ in the bus yesterday. (find)
3) The dress ______________ in hot water. (cannot wash)
4) The message _____________ tomorrow. (send)
5) These offices ________________ now. (clean)
6) Bags ____________ in the cloakroom. (must leave)
7) The engine ________________ just _____________ when the manager saw it. (test)
8) The last umbrellas _____________ in the morning. (sell)
9) You __________________ to arrive so late . (not allow)
10) The plan ________________ in two days. (announce)
11) All the halls ________________ at the moment. (paint)
12) What were we doing at 11 o'clock? We _____________________ . (interview)
13) After the window pane _________________ someone smashed the window again. (replace)

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