定冠词的用法及练习

定冠词的用法：

1.表示特指，既可特指上文提到过的人或事物，也可特指谈话双方都清楚的人或事物

如：Where’s the teacher

There I met a foreigner and the foreigner helped me a lot.

The manager you want to see was here just now.

2. 表示世上独一无二的事物

这里说的世上独一无二的事物主要指the sun, the moon, the earth, the sky, the universe, the world, the atomosphere(大气层)等东西。如：

The sun rises in the east and sets in the west.

若这类名词前有形容词修饰，表示具有某种特征，则也可能将定冠词改为不定冠词，如 a full moon(满月)，a friendly world(友好的世界)等。

3.序数词和形容词最高级前通常要用定冠词，副词最高级前可用定冠词，也可不用。如：

It was the best result they’ve ever had.

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He won the first game and I won the second, so we’re even.

4. 用于乐器名词前如：

She likes playing the piano.

The girl practices the violin every day.

5.与某些形容词连用，表示一类人或一类事物。如：

the rich 富人the poor 穷人the old 老人 the young 年轻人

6. 用于姓氏的复数之前，表示全家人或全家中两个或两个以上的人。如：

None of us here like the Smiths.

The Greens were too poor to send their son to school.

7. 用于某些专有名词前

如用于河流、海洋、山川、海岛、海峡、沙漠等专有名词前，以及用于由普通名词构成(或含有普通名词)的专有名词如国名、地名、团体、机构、党派、报纸、杂志、事件、建筑物等前。如：

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the Yellow River 黄河the Red Sea 红海the Indian Ocean 印度洋

the United States 美国the Times 泰晤士报the Great Wall长城

拓展：不用冠词的情况

1. 专有名词、抽象名词、物质名词和不可数名词前。如：China, success, water

2 . 名词前已有作定语用的this, that, my, your, some, any等代词。

Come this way, please.

May I ask you some questions

3. 复数名词表示一类人或事物时。

Dogs are friendly to people.

4. 在星期、月份、季节、节日前。

It is Sunday today. 今天星期日。

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Today is Mother’s Day. 今天是母亲节。

5. 在称呼或表示头衔的名词前。

After lunch Aunt Huang came in.

6. 在三餐和球类运动的名称前。

He hurried to school without breakfast this morning.

7. 当by 与火车等交通工具连用，表示一种方式时，中间无冠词；by bus，by train

8. 在某些固定词组中。如：at home, by train, go to school, go to work , go to bed, at breakfast, on time, in time, at noon, in danger, in trouble, in fact, in town

语法专练

about ______Christmas evening party

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---I should say it was ______ success.

A. a; a

B. the; a

C. a; /

D. the; /

2. Have you heard ______ news The price of _____ petrol is going up again!

A. the; the

B. /; the

C. the; /

D. /; /

3. I looked under_____ bed and found ______book I lost last week.

A. the; a

B. the; the

C. /; the

D. the; /

4. ---Have you seen ____ pen I left it here this morning.

---Is it ____ black one I think I saw it.

A. a; the

B. the; the

C. the; a

D. a; a

5. Mr. Smith, there’s a man at ____ front door who says he has _____ news for you

of great importance.

A. the; /

B. the; the

C. /; /

D. /; the

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6．---Has the little boy passed . test

---He has tried twice and the teacher will allow him to have _____ third try.

A. the; /

B. a; the

C. the; a

D. the; the

7. Everyone should learn from______ Lei Feng and try to be _______Lei Feng.

A. /; a

B. /; /

C. the; the

D. /; the

8. Three years later, Tom was elected______ monitor of our class.

A. a

B. the

C. /

D. an

9. Alice is fond of playing______ piano while Mary is interested in listening to____music.

A. /; the

B. the; /

C. the; the

D. /; /

10. Alexander Graham Bell invented ______ telephone in 1876

A. /

B. the

C. one

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11. ---Do you mean you know ______boy

---No. I know _______boy who looks like him

A. a; a

B. the; the

C. the; a

D. a; the

12. Let’s go to _____cinema—that’ll take your mind off the problem for ______while.

A. the; the

B. the; a

C. a; the

D. a; a

13. This area experienced _____heaviest rainfall in______ month of May.

A. /; the

B. a; the

C. the; the

D. the; a

14. We can never expect ______ bluer sky unless we create _____less polluted world.

A. a; a

B. a; the

C. the; a

D. the; the