大学英语四级冠词练习试题.doc

冠词用法讲练〔一冠词的位置1> 在名词词组中,冠词一般放在最前面例如：the last few days a really good concert2> 名词词组里如果有all, both, exactly, just, many, quite, rather, such, what等词,这类词可以放在冠词之前例如：all the time both brothersexactly the wrong colour just the right placequite a nice day rather a messsuch a funny story3> 和as, how／however, so, too连用时, 形容词放在冠词之前例如：He’s not sobiga fool as you think.She’s as clever agirl as you’re ever likely to meet.This is too heavy abag for me to carry.How large an armchair did he have?However tiring a day she may have, she never loses her good humour.〔二不定冠词 1> a／an表示"任何一个<类>",只能用于单数可数名词前。

例如：We are having a committee meeting this afternoon.a／an不用于不可数名词前例如：There will be discussion and argument at the meeting.He drinks milk every day.2> 不可数名词用作可数名词时,可用a／an例如：I’ve just bought a lovely big Danish cheese.I don’t like cheese.She was inspired with a new courage.She showed great courage.3> 用于表示价格、速度、比率等名词前,如five pence a kilo, sixty kilometers an hour, four times a day等4> 用于下列这样的固定短语中如a couple, a dozen, half a dozen, a hundred, a lot of, a great many, a great deal of, a large amount／quantity of, a good number of 等。

I’ve done a great deal of work today. <不可数>What a large number of books you have! <可数>It’s a good five miles<=at least five miles, perhaps mote> to the station. 5> 以元音开头的单词前不定冠词用an, 如：an apple, an egg, an item, an old man, an umbrella, an hour; 以辅音开头的单词前不定冠词用a university student, a humorous manEXERCISE lA. Put a or an before each of the following:1. motel <汽车游客旅馆> 2. unusual approach3. honest boy 4. awkward situation5. exit <出口> 6. urgent message7. unique opportunity 8. extremely exciting filmB．Translate the following into English：1．一座新办公楼2．一位旅行社代理人 3．一位美国科学家4．一天的郊游5．一张印度邮票6．一次心脏病发作 7．一个先进国家8．一个有意思的剧本EXERCISE 2Fill in the blanks with a or an where necessary:1. Telephone is very important means of communication.2. Mothers often tell small children stories before bedtime.3. I'll pay you thousand year. It’s not enormous salary but after all you are completely unskilled worker.4. —You’11 get shock if you touch live wire with that screwdriver<螺丝起子>. Why don’t you get screwdriver with insulated<绝缘的>handle?5. — I’m not wage-earner; I’m self-employed man. I have business of my own.—Then you’re not worker; You’re capitalist!6. —I have hour and half for lunch.—I only have half hour — barely time for smoke and cup of coffee.7. It travels at just under thousand miles hour.8. I have never known such hot weather.EXERCISE 3Insert a or an where necessary:A．1. I had very bad night; I didn’t sleep wink <眨眼；打盹>.2. This man has honesty that we all appreciated.3. Mr. Brown had vision of new and happier Europe.4. It’s time you had holiday. You haven’t had day off for month. 5. There is hourly service of buses in this route. 6. It is great honour to be invited to such gathering. 7. 1 wouldn’t climb mountain for $ 1, 000! I have horror of heights. 8. Children usually learn the difference between right and wrong at early age. 9. I can’t tell you definitely yet. I'll have word with my wife about it and tell you our decision tomorrow.10. If boy is not making satisfactory progress at school, his parents should seek advice from his teacher.B．1. This is big problem, but not too big problem for us to solve.2. He had square nose, grey hair and brown skin. She had never seen so handsome man. 3. However great disaster he suffered, John never gave up. 4. Many shipwrecked sailor has been rescued by our brave coastguards<海岸警卫队>. 5. Such urgent need requires prompt action. 6. So urgent need requires prompt action. 7. This is as lovely picture as I have ever seen. 8. I don’t think you realize what serious crisis this is. 9. You can hardly hope to succeed where many greater man has failed. 10. How serious crime had been committed was not realized until much later.〔三定冠词 1>定冠词的基本特性实际上所有名词〔专有名词将另行讨论前都可能用定冠词the。

究竟用不用定冠词,主要取决于我们所表达的思想如果我们要给予某个名词以明确的、限定的、特指的意义,就用the；反之,就不用the请看下列句子：12I love books.Put the books on the shelf.Butter is not cheap.The butter I bought is not cheap.He went to work by car.He rode to work in the new car.He has gained strength.He has regained the strength he lost.I like music.I like the music composed by the young man.a> 一般用于带有修饰语的名词词组前,但并非所有带修饰语的名词都需要the例如：Don’t you think Georgianhouses are absolutely lovely?Stainless steel <不锈钢器皿> has many uses.I can’t say I care for modern art.上面三句中斜体部分的名词虽然都有修饰语,因没有明确限定而是泛指一类事物,故不用the。

下面三句斜体部分的名词则表示提到过的,特指的事物,要用the：TheGeorgian houses have been sold.The stainless steel was beautiful, but I thought most of the glass 〔玻璃器皿 they exhibited was rather unimaginative.They showed a wonderful selection of the impressionists, but the modern art was too limited in its r。