推荐：大学英语六级考试短文写作教材（五）(6)

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。
d) 用于表示国籍、民族的名词前。例如：
the British  the Chinese
the Dutch  the English
下列名词常用复数形式：
(the) Russians (the) Italians
(the) Arabs  (the) Scots
c) 用于表示地区的名词前。例如：
the Middle East  the Far East
the north of England (但是：northern England)
f) 不用于街道、建筑等名词前，但有 of 介词短语修饰时，需用the。例如：
Broadway     Red Square
the Tower of London   the Great Wall of China
Sam lives on l2th Street.
They changed the name of Sixth Avenue to the Avenue of Americas.
g) 用于河流、海洋、群岛、山脉、海峡、海湾名词前。例如：
the Mississippi   the Atlantic
the Philippine Islands  the Andes
the English Channel  the Persian Gulf
但不用于单个岛屿、山峰前。例如：
Sicily  (Mount)Etna
h) 不用于大学名称前，但有 of 介词短语修饰时，需用the。例如：
Yale University   Oxford University
the University of North Carolina
i) 不用于杂志名词前，但用于报纸名词前。例如：
Newsweek    Natural History
the Daily News   the Washington Post