We went to the cinema last night.
Do you often go to the theatre?
I heard the news on the radio.
television 用于表示“看电视”时不用 the。例如：
I watched the news on television.
指“电视机”时用the。例如：
Can you turn off the television, please?(=the television set)
注：许多固定词组中的名词前通常没有冠词，需要熟记，如day after day，husband and wife，father and son，lock and key，heaven and hell等。
EXERCISE 5
A．Fill in the blanks with a or the where necessary:
1. After lunch, we went for walk by sea.
2. Steam-engine was invented before internal combustion engine（内燃机）.
3. Bat, they say, judges distances by kind of echo-location.
4. He goes to church every Sunday； church he usually goes to has seats for over thousand.
5. This is most useful reference book I have on this subject.
6. We have good market in town where we buy our fruit and _______ vegetables.
7. Prison in this town is grim-looking building.