Exercise #5.A: the / a / An?

Exercise #5.A: The / A / An?

In the text that follows, decide if an article is needed and, if so, which one.

Much has been learned about ____the brain in ___the last 150 years. ___The brain, ___the most complicated organ of ___the body, contains ___ ten billion nerve cells and is divided into ___ two cerebral hemispheres – one on ___the right and one on ___the left. Interestingly, ___the left hemisphere controls ___(the) movements on ___the right side of ___the body, while ___the right hemisphere controls ___(the) movements on ___the left.

___ researchersResearchers also know that ___ specific abilities and behaviours are localized; in ___ other words, they are controlled by ___ specific areas of ___the brain. ___ languageLanguage, it seems, is highly localized in ___the left hemisphere. In ___the 1860s Dr. Paul Broca discovered that ___ damage to ___the front left part of ___the brain resulted in ___ telegraphic speech similar to that of young children. Soon thereafter, Karl Wernicke found that ___ damage to ___the back left part of ___the brain resulted in ___ speech with ___ little semantic meaning. These two regions in ___the brain are now referred to as ___ Broca’s area and ___ Wernicke’s area.

Although there is some debate surrounding ___the specialization of ___the brain, ___ researchers generally agree that___ speech is controlled by ___the left side. There is no debate that in ___the great majority of cases, ___ injuries to ___the left side nearly always have ___an impact on ___ speech.

Exercise #5.B: Article or no article?

In the following, decided if an article is necessary or not.

1.  Figure 3.11 shows a representative set of results from an experiment using _____the flame-aversion paradigm.

2.  For the better part of a century, _____ professional philosophy has been out to "naturalise" mental phenomena by reducing them to physical entities and/or relationships.

3.  He compiled a chronicle of _____ world history, fitting together the calculations of Greek chroniclers with the indications of date found in the Bible.

4.  'There is a real possibility of affecting _____the ageing process with biomedical intervention.'

5.  Aspects of _____the Irish constitution and its implementation are clearly oppressive as well as offensive to other minorities beside the Protestant one.

6.  Members of the working party agreed that some use of animals in _____ biomedical research is necessary.

7.  The radical restructuring of _____ British politics after 1931 lies not in the events of 13th-28th August but in the changing attitudes within the National Government during September and October 1931.

8.  As stars move, _____the Doppler effect changes the wavelength of the radiation they emit.

9.  Ever since _____the Industrial Revolution created a mass urban society, the conditions of the poorest city dwellers has given rise to anxiety among the better-off.

10.  The theory of natural selection first propounded by Charles Darwin (19581858) is a cornerstone of _____ biological thought.

11.  The main models of _____the British economy vary widely in attributing importance to the link between wealth and current spending.

12.  In the past, attempts to root out _____ police corruption have been hampered by officers' reluctance to accuse their colleagues of wrong-doing.

13.  In the early 1980s, at a time when _____the manufacturing industry was collapsing and the outlook for the unskilled looked particularly bleak, frustration boiled over in a series of riots in London, Bristol, Birmingham, Liverpool, and elsewhere.