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　　television 用于表示“看电视”时不用 the。例如：

　　I watched the news on television.

　　指“电视机”时用the。例如：

　　Can you turn off the television, please?(=the television set)

　　注：许多固定词组中的名词前通常没有冠词，需要熟记，如day after day，husband and wife，father and son，lock and key，heaven and hell等。

　　EXERCISE 5

　　A.Fill in the blanks with a or the where necessary:

　　1. After lunch, we went for walk by sea.

　　2. Steam-engine was invented before internal combustion engine(内燃机).

　　3. Bat, they say, judges distances by kind of echo-location.

　　4. He goes to church every Sunday; church he usually goes to has seats for over thousand.

　　5. This is most useful reference book I have on this subject.

　　6. We have good market in town where we buy our fruit and _______ vegetables.

　　7. Prison in this town is grim-looking building.

　　8. Youngest boy has just started going to school; eldest boy is at college.

　　9. Dead no longer need help. We must concern ourselves with living.

　　10. John became manager and secretary of the company same time.

　　B.Insert a or the where necessary:

　　1. Horse is noble animal and faithful servant of man.

　　2. Chess is game which requires great skill and patience.

　　3. The stranger went to school to complain about behaviour(行为)of one of pupils.

　　4. Dinner was good, but I did not enjoy speeches that came after it.

　　5. An important aspect in developing motivation(动力，促动因素)is setting of goals.

　　6. —He got bronchitis(支气管炎) and was taken to hospital. I expect they’ll send him home at end of week.

　　—Have you rung hospital to ask how he is?

　　7. Didn’t you hear that news over radio this morning?

　　8. Flute(长笛) is my favourite instrument.

　　9. We have very good train service from here to city center and most people go to work by train. You can go by bus, too, of course, but you can’t get season ticket on bus.

　　10. Everywhere man has cut down forests in order to cultivate ground, or to use wood as fuel or as building material.

　　3) 专用名词前定冠词的主要用法

　　a) 一般不用于单数人名前，但特指或强调时需用the。例如：

　　He’s the Mr. Smith I saw yesterday.

　　也可说：

　　A Mr. Smith has come here. (=A man called Smith has come here.)

　　复数人名前需用the，如the Johnsons, the Coopers。

　　b) 不用于“头衔+人名”前，但有头衔无人名时需用the，以表示特指。例如：

　　I saw Queen Elizabeth when l was in London。

　　I saw the Queen when I was in London.

　　c) 不用于国家、省市等名词前，但由短语组成的国名，或以s结尾的国名前需要用the。例如：

　　the Philippines the Netherlands

　　the United States the United Kingdom

　　注：the Ukraine, the Congo, the Sudan, the Hague为例外。

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