Geographical and Place Names

Exercise 1 . Insert articles where necessary.

1. I had come back from __ East and was spending some time in London just then. (W.S. Maugham)

2. __ West is especially short of labour. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)

3. He listened to the wisdom of __ Near East, was Crucified, Died, and was Buried in the cheerful church. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)

4. His America will be as remote from your America as __ Gobi desert. (W.S. Maugham)

5. There was a postcard of __ Lake of Geneva leaning against it. (D. du Maurier)

6. She had even pined away for a time, and Braddock Washington had taken steps to promote a new war in __ Balkans. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)

7. He smelled sawdust and paint and the scarcely distinguishable flat odour of __ Hudson. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)

8. Descending to another ledge she reached a low, curved wall and looked down seven hundred feet to __ Mediterranean Sea. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)    

9. His large grey eyes were sun-veined from the rowing on __ Lake Geneva. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald

10. But there he deserted her – he must press on toward __ Isles of Greece, the cloudy waters of unfamiliar ports, the lost girl on shore, the moon of popular songs. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)

11. How was __ Mount Everest? (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)

12. “Where in Africa?”

“__ Sudan and __ Kenya.” (H. Fielding)

13. I like to dive in __ Caribbean, on the reef off Belize and Honduras, and in __ Red Sea. (H. Fielding)

14. It was five days since Olivia had left Feramo in __ Bay Islands and he hadn’t called. (H. Fielding)

15. (Of the House of Commons) The longest running farce in __ West End. (C. Smith)

16. You felt as much alone as if you’d been on the banks of __ Amazon. (G. Orwell)

17. “We would go ice skating in the winter, and watch hockey games, and go swimming at __ Big Glace Bay Lake in the summer.” (S. Sheldon)

18. Her ancestors had come from __ Highlands, and the storied about them gave Lara the only sense of belonging that she had. (S. Sheldon)

19. They took a motorboat to __ Lido Island. (S. Sheldon)

20. Earlier that morning Max had phoned a number of executives who worked in __ City, __  financial center of London. (S. Sheldon)

21. ... she planked down all the money … to take over Saul Hardy’s lease of a million acres between __ Niagara hills on the west, __ To-Morrow ranges on the east and tributaries of the coasted rivers north and south.

22. Life in __ northwest of __ Western Australia is almost as little known in __ Australia as in __ England or __ America.

23. Some of the waiters discuss the menu with you as if they were sharing wisdom picked up in __ Himalayas. (S. Britchky)