冠词
【知识清单】
一、冠词的分类
冠词分为定冠词和不定冠词,定冠词包括the,意为“这个”, 不定冠词就是a/an,意为“一个”。
He is a boy.
This is an apple.
The book you give me is very interesting.
二、冠词的用法
冠词
用法
例句
A
用于辅音发音开头的单数可数名词或字母前
a cup of tea
An
用于元音发音开头的单数可数名词或字母前
half an hour
The
特指
形容词或副词最高级前
the youngest
the+形容词或副词比较级, the +形容词或副词比较级
The more, the better.
序数词前
the first
加形容词,表一类人
the old
第二次提到或双方都知道的人或物
the water in the cup
独一无二的事物
the moon
The+姓氏的复数,表某某一家人
the Blacks
[专项练习]
单项选择
1. It takes about a quarter of ______ hour to walk into town.
A. a B. an C. the D. 不填
2. Mary has _______ e-dictionary; she got it from her uncle.
A. a B. an C. the D. 不填3. One morning he found ____ handbag. There was ___ “s” on the corner of ___ handbag.
A. a ; an ; the B. a ; a ; the C. a ; a ; a D. the ; an ; a
4. ____ bad weather it is!
A. How B. What a C. How a D. What
5. Look at ____ picture! There’s ____ house in it.
A. a ; a B. the ; the C. a ; the D. the; a
6. Is ___ book on the desk mine? Yes.
A. the B. a C. an D. /
7. ____ young must look after ___ old.
A. The ; a B. The ; the C. A ; a D. A ; the
8. ___ earth is one of ____ planets.
A. The ; sun’s B. The ; the sun
C. The ; the sun’s D. The ; the suns’
9. Tokyo is ___.
A. the capital of Japan B. capital of Japan
C. Japan capital D. a capital of Japan
10. –Have you seen ___ pencil? I left it here this morning.--Is it ___ red one? I saw it.
A. a ; the B. the ; the C. the ; a D. a ; a
11. ____water in this glass is too dirty to drink. But man can’t live without ____ water.
A. The; / B. The; the
C. /; the D. /; /
12. Even while he was in ___ hospital, he went on writing songs.
A. a B. an C. the D. /
【疑难解析】
一、零冠词的用法1. 用于球类运动、棋类游戏、科目
play football play chess learn English
2. 用于某些抽象名词和专有名词前
Knowledge is power.
He lives in China.
3. 在季节,月份,星期,节日和三餐饭前
People can go skiing in winter.
People enjoy the full moon and eat mooncakes on Mid-Autumn Day.
Having breakfast is the most important meal of a day.
注意:如果三餐前有形容词修饰,要加冠词。
一顿丰盛的午餐
A big/wonderful lunch
[专项练习]
用a/an/the/零冠词填空
In ______ winter it is cold in ______ Beijing and warm in ________Shanghai.
Tomorrow is ______ Teachers' Day and we'll make ______ card for our English teacher.
We can't live without ______ water or ______ air.
This is ______ book you gave me last week.
What did you do ______ last Saturday?
John is______ cleverest boy in his class.
At ______ age of five, he read a lot of books.
Tom and Lucy are of ______ same age.
______ harder we study, ______ more we learn.
二、定冠词the和零冠词的区别
我们在考试的时候会碰到一些比较相似的短语,比如说in hospital, in the hospital,那我们如何区别他们的意思呢?请记住一句话:有the表示在具体的地方,无the表示这个地方的主要功能。如:
She is in hospital.
She is in the hospital.
He went to school yesterday.
He went to the school yesterday.
[专项练习]
写出下面短语的意思
at the table __________________________
at table _______________________
in the office _______________________
in office _______________________
in public _______________________
in the public _______________________
三、常见的带the的短语
in the morning/afternoon/evening
in the country
in the sun
in the distance
on the right/ left
by the way
on the way home
in the front of
in the daytime
at /in the beginning
at the moment
in the year 2008
the other day in the end
at the age of
of the same age
the same… as
on the one hand, on the other hand
【课后练习】
1 Learning_____ country’s language is a better way knowing _____culture behind it.
A. the; a B. a; the C. /; the D. a; /
2.—Lily is coming by_____ plane tomorrow.
—Let’s go to _ airport to meet her.
A. a; a B. /; a C. the; the D. /; the
3. Miss Liu wants to lose weight. She just has _______ cup of milk for ________ breakfast every day.
A. a; the B. a;(不填) C. the; a D. the;(不填)
4. On April 12, 1961,____27—year—old Yuri Gagarin became the first human to go into____ space.
A. the;不填 B. the; the C. a;不填 D. a; the
5. ---How was ________ dinner at Mike’s house?
---It was great. Mike’s mum is _________ wonderful cook.
A. a; the B. the; a C. the; the D. a; an
6. —Did you get there by ______ bike?
—No, I took ______ taxi.
A. a; a B. 不填; a C. the; the D. a; the
7. I like music, but I don’t like ______ music of this film.
A. a B. an C. the D.不填
8. There is _______report in today's newspaper. It's about _______sports meeting that will be held in Weihai.A. a; the B. an; the C. the; the D. a; a
9. — Have you seen______ pen? I left one here this morning.
— Is it________ black one? I think I saw it somewhere.
A. the; the B. a; a C. the; a D. a; the
10. This novel can make you laugh and cry at _____ same time.
A. a B. an C. the D. /
11. — What’s your favourite fruit?
— Apples. You know, ________ apple a day keeps the doctor away.
A. a B. an C. the D