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Exercise 17. Fill in the blanks with articles before different geographic names if necessary.






1....Manhattan is the name of an island which forms the heart of New York. The island is 13 miles long, 2 miles wide and lies at the mouth of... Hudson River. East of it runs... East River, which divides the island from... Long Island. 2....Switzerland was an island washed on one side by the waves of thunder around... Gorizia and another by the cataracts along...Somme and... Aisne. 3. Do you know what it's like when there's sixty degrees of frost in... Arctic — and it still doesn't freeze? 4. In 1919 I happened to be in... Chicago on my way to... Far East. 5. " She came from... Bavaria, " she said. 6. On the pleasant shore of... French Riviera, about half way between... Marseilles and … Italian Border, stands a large, proud, rose-colored hotel. 7. I thought if the test turned out to be good I could take it to... Ca­lifornia with me. 8. I had, indeed, a mind to see... city of Peking, which I had heard so much of. 9. After all it was the completest thing, and perhaps the deadest in... London of today. 10. He had agencies in many of the islands of... Pacific. 11. Descending to another ledge she reached a low curved wall and looked down seven hundred feet to... Mediterranean sea. 12. He came to... Seine, crossed it, and entered one of the less reputable quarters of... Paris. 13. The Bancrofts are at present living at their summer home on... Lake Meticito. 14. The region around... Great Lakes has not an excessive hu­midity. 15. It may be in... Coney Island or... Pelham Bay, but I'll find a room. 16. I haven't had a thing since breakfast. Just got in from... Rock Island. 17. They knew that Davidson had worked in... Canaries for five years before he met his wife. 18. Behind... Pyrenees too, the way to peace is through military detente in... Europe. 19. It was a matter of chance that I should have rented a house in one of the strangest communities in... North America. 20. They settled down in a handsome villa in … Tyrol and in a short time became conspicuous in the social life of the province. 21. The church stood in... ancient village in... Devonshire. 22. Go to... Hague, or to... Amsterdam. 23. He has his National Trust and preservation councils for just about every hill and valley south of... Caledonian Canal. 24.... Victoria Falls on the northwest border of... Rhodesia is a mile wide and 420 feet high. 25. They reached the place of desti­nation that evening and next morning they saw the sun­rise in... Saint Gotthard Pass. 26.... Moscow is a city of museums. It was in... Moscow that the first museum collection was formed in... medieval Russia. 27. Most of the Slavic peoples now in... Balkan Peninsula arrived in the 6th and 7th centuries. 28.... White Nile Riv­er originates in... Lake Victoria. 29.... Jordan River and... Dead Sea are on the Israel border. Steep cliffs rise on both sides of... Jordan Valley.

 






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