Discussion
London is on ........ Thames.
Answer: C
The blank takes the: London is on the Thames.
Names of rivers take the definite article in English: the Thames, the Ganga, the Nile, the Brahmaputra. The same holds for seas, oceans and canals (the Arabian Sea, the Suez Canal) and for mountain ranges (the Himalayas), though not for single mountains or lakes (Mount Everest, Lake Chilika).
A and an cannot go before a unique proper name, and leaving the article out (on Thames) is wrong in ordinary prose; it survives only in fixed place names such as Kingston upon Thames.
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