Упр.6 Check your progress Юнит 8 New Millennium English 11 класс

Приведем выдержку из задания из учебника Казырбаева, Дворецкая 11 класс, Титул: 6 Read the text and fill in the gaps with appropriate articles where necessary. POLICE «STING» NETS STOLEN CONSTABLES Two stolen John Constable paintings, worth an estimated ?11 million, have been recovered and three men arrested during (1 … secret police operation. The «sting» was carried out yesterday at (2 … hotel near Heathrow airport by officers from the National Crime Squad posing as dishonest art buyers. (3) … suspected art thieves are understood to have asked just ?100,000 for (4 … sketches, which were stolen from the Victoria and Albert Museum in London in November 1998. (5 … works are Dedham Lock and Mill and Sketch for Valley Farm which were painted near (6 … birthplace of (7 … great painter on the Suffolk-Essex borders. A secret operation was set up (8) … few days ago following (9) … tip off that criminals were trying to sell (10) … paintings on the black market. NCS officers made (11 … deal with three men, aged 34, 36 and 37, and arranged a handover at the Crown Plaza Hotel, in (12 … West Drayton. Detective Chief Inspector, Mick Deats, said: «Not only have we managed to recover (13 … two important and very valuable paintings, we have arrested three people.» Dr Alan Borg, director of (14 … museum, said: «We are absolutely delighted. These are two very important pieces of (15 … our artistic heritage.» *Цитирирование части задания со ссылкой на учебник производится исключительно в учебных целях для лучшего понимания разбора решения задания.

Ответ

1) a secret police operation
2) a hotel near Heathrow airport
3) The suspected art thieves
4) the sketches
5) The works
6) the birthplace
7) the great painter
8) a few days ago
9) a tip-off
10) the paintings
11) a deal
12) West Drayton
13) the two important and very valuable paintings
14) the museum
15) our artistic heritage