Complete the passage with the appropriate articles where necessary.

What is a Law?

What is a law? Imagine your family sitting down to play a board game. You need to know the rules in
order to play. The same thing goes for your day-to-day life - you need to know the rules or
____the______ (1) laws. Every country has its own set of __________ (2) laws and each is unique to
that country. For example, in the United States, ___the_______ (3) law says we drive on the right-
hand side of the road. In England, on the other hand, their __________ (4) law states they drive on the
left. You could really do some damage if you didn’t know __the________ (5) law and started driving
on the wrong side of the road. Now that we know what ______ (6) law is, who makes___the_____ (7)
laws? In the USA, ___the____ (8) laws can be made by the US national government or by individual
state governments. National _______ (9) laws are those ________ (10) laws that everyone in the
country must follow. ___the_____ (11) laws made by individual states are only valid in that state.