Fill in the blanks with suitable
articles from the options given
below :
______ highest mountain peak of the world
is in ______ Himalayas. It is ______ Mount
Everest. For hundreds of years, nobody succeeded
in reaching ______ summit. ______ British,
who ruled over India, established ______ office
in ______ 1800’s to survery ______ mountain
and measure it. ______man who had ___?___
idea to start ______ office was George Everest.
After much work, ______task was completed
in ______ 1852. ______ height was finally
calculated as 8840 metres (later established more
precisely as 8882 mt.). ______ summit was
named after Everest in 1863. Edmund Hillary and
Tenzing Norgay were ______ first to reach the
summit of Mt. Everest.
A an
B a
C the
D no article required
the answer should be (a).