Exercise 2: Câu chuyện sau được chia thành các câu nhỏ, hãy đọc và điền mạo từ thích hợp “a/an/ the hoặc x (không cần mạo từ)” vào chỗ trống: 1. There was knock on door. I opened it and found small dark man in blue overcoat and woolen cap.
2. He said he was __employee of gas company and had come to read meter.
3. But I had suspicion that he wasn't speaking truth because meter readers usually wear peaked caps.
4. However, I took him to meter, which is in dark corner under stairs.
5. I asked if he had ___ torch; he said he disliked torches and always read ___ meters by __light of match.
6. I remarked that if there was leak in gas pipe there might be explosion while he was reading meter.
7. He said, “As matter of fact, there was explosion in last house I visited; and Mr. Smith, ___owner of ___house, was burnt in face.”
8. “Mr. Smith was holding lighted match at time of explosion.”
9. To prevent possible repetition of this accident, I lent him torch.
10. He switched on ___torch, read meter and wrote __ reading down on back of envelope.
11. I said in __surprise that ___meter readers usually put ___readings down in book.
12. He said that he had had ___book but that it had been burnt in fire in Mr. Smith's house.
13. By this time I had come to conclusion that he wasn't genuine meter reader; and moment he left house I rang police.