难点31 难以捉摸的冠词
冠词是英语中的特有的词类。由于汉语中没有与之对应的词，学生对其用法感到难以掌握，所以高考英语在短文改错中对冠词的考查几乎年年都有。
●难点磁场
1.（★★★★） I’ll take this chance to wish you wonderful time on your birthday.
89. ________(2000春季高考)
2.（★★★★） Suddenly, I caught a sight of my English teacher in the crowd.
91. ________ (NMET2000)
3.（★★★★★） When I was a child, the rain was a mystery.
90. ________ (2001 春季高考)
4.（★★★★） We may be on family and live under a same roof.
82. ________ (NMET2001)
5.（★★★★★）As everyone knows, it’s famous mountain with all kinds of plants and animals. 76. ________(NMET 2002)
●案例探究
1.Each player must obey captain, who is the leader of the team.
解析：此题为五星级题。captain 前面加the。如chairman, captain, monitor ,manager这类表示职位的名词，前面一般为零冠词，但如果这类职务指的是某人，前面要用定冠词。
e.g. We elected him monitor.
He is the monitor of our class.
2.I was about to rush out of the train station when a well-dressed old man took me by my arm.
解析：此题为四星级题。把my 改成the。take sb. by the hand \\arm 为固定搭配。在固定句型hit sb. in the face,strike sb. on the head ,take sb. by the arm等中，身体各部位前一定用定冠词the。
3.Good health is person’s most valuable possession.
解析：此题为四星级题。在person’s 前加a。person 是可数名词，又是第一次提到，单数前应加不定冠词。
A person 一个人；people为复数名词，但Chinese is a kind and hard-working people. man 作人类（mankind）讲时，不加冠词；但加冠词后，就变成具体的某个人了。
e.g. man’s knowledge of things is developing.
4.Modern people know more than about the health.
解析：此题为五星级题。去掉the。health 是抽象名词，又是不可数名词，故不可用定冠词。抽象名词和物质名词表示一般概念时，前面通常不用冠词，但特指时，则须用定冠词；如果表示一个具体情况或动作或某一物质时，前面可用不定冠词。
e.g. Sending another satellites is a bib success for China.
It’s a great joy to live with all my old classmates.
What a heavy rain！
5.Alexander Braborn Bell is considered to invented telephone in 1876.
解析：此题为五星级题。telephone 前加the。在讨论科技问题时，定冠词常和单数可数名词连用。在表示发明物的单数名词前加the。
e.g. The compass was invented in China four thousand years ago.
●锦囊妙计
不可数名词泛指时前面多冠词；单数可数名词前少冠词；不定冠词a, an与定冠词的错误使用；固定搭配中的冠词错误等等为高考常见的考点。
●歼灭难点训练
1.（★★★★）…while sweeping the room, she saw little mouse running across her floor.
2.（★★★）We think it bridge to the friendship between us and the people throughout the outside the world.
3.（★★★★）After I finished the school this year ,I began to look for work.
4.（★★★★）Last summer I spent a two-week vacation at my aunt’s.
5.（★★★★★）With smile ,the teacher drew two circles.
6.（★★★★）Bob was very fond of the music when he was a child.
7.（★★★★★）Michale was walking along the street other day.
8.（★★★★★）Besides my work at the office, only thing that interests me is listening to music.
9.（★★★）One piece of cloth was black, and other piece was white.