X. Put in a /an or the where necessary. Leave an empty space if the sentence is already complete. 1. I don’t usually like staying at _________ hotels, but last summer we spent _________ few days at a very nice hotel by _________ sea. 2. _________ tennis is my favorite sport. I play once or twice _________ week if I can, but I’m not _________ very good player. 3. I won’t be home for _________ dinner this evening. I’m meeting some friends after _________ work and we are going to _________ cinema. 4. _____________ unemployment is very high at the moment and it’s very difficult for _____________ people to find _________ work. 5. There was _________ accident as I was going _________ home last night. Two people were taken to ________ hospital. I think ________ most accidents are caused by ________ people driving too fast. 6. Carol is _________ economist. She used to work in _________ investment department of _________ Lloyds Bank. Now she works for _________ American bank in _________ United States. 7. What’s _________ name of _________ hotel where you’re staying? ~ _________ Imperial. It’s in _________ Queen Street in _________ city centre. It’s near _________ station. 8. I have two brothers. _________ older one is training to be _________ pilot with _________ British Airway. _________ younger one is still at _________ school. When he leaves _________ school, he hopes to go to _________ Cambridge University to study law. 9. Frank Lloyd Wright is _________ name of _________ famous architect. He is _________ architect who designed _________ Guggenheim Museum in New York. He also designed _________ hotel in Tokyo. _________ hotel was designed to withstand _________ earthquakes. 10. _________ meals we had weren’t very good. We had _________ breakfast in the hotel, and that wasn’t too bad. We usually went out for _________ lunch because _________ lunch they served in the hotel was always the same. And _________ dinner we had at the hotel on our first evening was pretty awful, so we tried a few restaurants. On our last evening we had _________ marvellous meal in a Chinese restaurant.