Cover of the textbook Cutting Edge Upper-Intermediate - Workbook

The key answer of exercise 3

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 09 - Getting it right for the textbook Cutting Edge Upper-Intermediate - Workbook with authors Jane Comyns Carr, Frances Eales and Damian Williams from Pearson Education

Question

Put five indefinite articles (a / an) and five definite articles (the) in the correct places in the joke.

Answer

An old man was backing a BMW into a parking space when a bright red sports car drove in behind him and took the space. A young man jumped out and said, 'Sorry, old man, but you've got to be young and fast to do that.' The old man ignored the young man and kept reversing until the BMW had destroyed the sports car completely. 'Sorry, son, you've got to be old and rich to do that!'