Choose the variant that correctly fills the gaps in the sentence.
When Tom was ___ child, he spent ___ summer of 1998 in ___ hospital where his mother worked as ___ nurse.
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Верный ответ
- Da – the – the – a
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Gap 1: "when Tom was a child" is a fixed pattern with the indefinite article for a singular countable noun used in a general sense. Gap 2: "summer of 1998" is made specific by the of-phrase, so the definite article is needed. Gap 3: "hospital" is defined by the clause "where his mother worked", so it takes the definite article. Gap 4: after "as" a profession is introduced with the indefinite article: "as a nurse". So the correct sequence is "a – the – the – a". The other sequences fail at once: "the child" and "no article" before "child" are wrong in gap 1, and "a summer of 1998" is wrong in gap 2.