Exercise 16. Fill in the blanks with articles before names of peninsulas, deserts, mountains, islands, tails, passes, falls if necessary.

1. She's lived on... Long Island twenty years and never saw…New York City before. 2. He told stories to beautiful girls about his fighting in... Solomon Islands, in Casablanca. 3.... Rocky Mountains extend from Me­xico to Canada. 4. We were going to climb... Monte Solaro, dine at a tavern we favoured, and walk down in the moonlight. 5. He took her for a ride on the river un­der... Niagara Falls and held her hand lovingly when they walked in the sunlight of the Northern summer. 6. We could very well have done... Mount Everest the rate we were doing. 7. On the edge of... Sahara we ran into a plague of locusts and the chauffeur explained kindly that they were bumble-bees. 8. In December Nicole seemed well-knit again; when a month had passed without tension, without the tight mouth, the unmotivated smile, the unfathomable remark, they went to... Swiss Alps for the Christmas holidays. 9. Symbolically she lay across his saddle-bow as surely as if he had wolfed her away from Damascus and they had come out upon... Mongol­ian plain. 10. Here was another item detailing the wreck­ing of a vessel in ice and snow off Prince's Bay on... Staten Island. 11. He had a small house in... Bermudas. 12. The shell was found overturned, the next day, near... Bear Mountain. 13. The photographer gave us the pic­ture of me, my hair limp over the rail on the boat to... Capri. 14. No one should leave the park without visiting the outlook station on the rim of... Great Canyon for a view of... Lower Falls of the Yellowstone River. 15.... Kilimanjaro is a snow covered mountain 19, 700 feet high and is said to be the highest mountain in Africa. 16. Of course she had read novels about... Malay Ar­chipelago and she had formed an impression of a sombre land with great ominous rivers and a single silent im­penetrable jungle. 17. We shall try to break through direct for... North Cape. 18.... Strait of Georgia had gale-force winds, in the high elevations of... Sierra Ne­vada and... Cascades there was snow. 19. The main part of the United States presents four physical divisions; two elevated and two lowland regions. The elevated are... Appalachian Mountains in the east and... Rocky Mountains or Cordilleran system in the west. 20. The Kalambo River, part of the border between Zambia and Tanganyika, passes over... Kalambo Falls in a spectac­ular 704 feet drop. 21. The People's Democratic Repub­lic of Yemen lies on the southern tip of... Arabian Pe­ninsula. 22. Spain is a country of about 194, 883 square miles (including... Balearic Islands and... Canary Is­lands) occupying the larger part of _… Iberian Penin­sula in southwestern Europe. 23. Mongolia spans a huge steppe plateau and... Gobi Desert.