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Exercise 47. Insert the article where necessary




Exercise 46. Insert the article where necessary.

1. … education is only … part of … life. … life is … education in itself.

2. He goes to … church every Sunday; … church he usually goes to has … seats for over … thousand people.

3. We had.. soup, … fish, … roast beef and … sweet for … lunch before … meeting held in … honour of … new Chairman.

4. Some philosophers divide … universe into … mind and … matter, and believe that … matter is only … illusion.

5. What is … matter? You look as if you had seen …ghost? Or have you had … accident?

6. … people tend to behave like … sheep when they are in … crowd.

7. In … answer to your letter of … sixteenth of … month, we have to inform you that we are out of … stock of … articles you require.

8. I asked him for … information. He replied with … great promptitude and gave me … advice as well as … information that I needed.

9. … good and … evil are to be found in all parts of … world.

10. … good go to … Heaven and … wicked end in …Hell.

11. … goodness of his intentions was matched only by … folly of his actions.

12. Thank … goodness he has now retired from … business.

13. He has … keen eye for … business and every year his firm makes … greater profit.

14. You must learn to keep … business and … pleasure apart.

15. We hope to have... pleasure of …visit from … representative of yours very soon.

16. He displayed … wisdom and … patience that would have done … credit to Solomon.

17. By … way of … retort, he made … rude remark in … language that was not fit for... …ears of … young.

18. I came here by …car, as … friend of mine offered to give me … lift. I have made … journey in … car before but never in … such comfort, for … car my friend owns is … most luxurious one, perhaps … most luxurious car on … market today.

19. You can travel by … rail or … road; you will find that … former is less expensive but … latter is … more rapid way.

20. … Supreme Court President Johnson decided to appoint … new judge today.

Igor Sikorsky

1. Igor Sikorsky was born on … May 25, 1889 in Kiev. 2. He was … pioneer of … aviation in both … helicopters and … fixed-wing aircraft. … 3. Being … boy at … age of 12 he made … small rubber-powered helicopter that could rise in … air.

4. … trip through Europe in … summer of 1908 brought him into … contact with … accomplishments of … Wright brothers. 5. Returning to Kiev, Sikorsky came to … conclusion that … way to fly was “straight up,” as Leonardo had proposed, … concept that called for … horizontal rotor. 6. In May of 1909 he began … construction of … helicopter. 7. Its failure revealed some of … practical obstacles. And he made … major decision: “I had learned enough to recognize that with … existing state of … art, engines, materials, and — most of all — …shortage of money I would not be able to produce … successful helicopter at that time.” In … fact, he had to wait 30 years before all … conditions could be met.

In … period of … disruption following … Russian Revolution Sikorsky saw … little opportunity for … further aircraft development in … Europe. He decided to start over again in … United States and in March 1919 landed in New York as … immigrant.

After several lean years as … lecturer and schoolteacher, he and … few associates, formed their own company, … Sikorsky Aero Engineering Corporation. By 1929 … company, having become … division of … United Aircraft Corporation, produced S-38 twin-engined amphibians. In 1931 … first S-40, … “American Clipper,” pioneered … Pan American World Airways mail and passenger routes around … Caribbean and to … South America. By … summer of 1937 he developed … first of … Pan American Airways' ocean-conquering flying boats.

Early in 1939 Sikorsky returned to … helicopter, and with … well-trained engineering group, he started … construction of … Vought-Sikorsky VS-300 helicopter, which pioneered … rotor configuration used by … most helicopters today.

Sikorsky regarded … helicopter as … useful tool for … industry and … air commerce but primarily as … effective device for … rescue and … relief of human beings caught in … natural disasters, such as … fire, … flood, or … famine. He estimated that more than 50,000 lives had been saved by … helicopters.

VI. Practice before the test.




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