II. Выберите один из предложенных вариантов ответа:

1. Do you think people (is / are) satisfied with the government?

2. They say that money (is / are) the soul of business.

3. It’s very difficult to find a (work / job) at the moment.

4. There (is / are) gentlemen waiting for you in reception.

5. When (is / are) the daily news on? ~ At 3 p.m.

6. The business consultant gave us some very useful (advice / advices).

7. I have to pay my rent out of my (wage / wages).

8. The police (is / are) prepared to react in case there is some mass riot.

9. Clothes (make / makes) the man: the old saying is rather to the point.

10. The criteria for promotion (is / are) now clearly formulated.

11. Sorry, I’m late. I had (trouble / troubles) with the car this morning.

12. The poor (is / are) helped by various government programs.

13. Today the mass (medium / media) have enormous power in any society.

14. We had our bags thoroughly searched at (custom / customs).

15. The (good / goods) that we ordered last week are now at the warehouse.

16. A chemical (work / works) of this region is dangerous for the environment.

17. For most students, residential rent is their biggest (expense / expenses).

18. A lot of social problems are caused by the world financial (crisis / crises).

19. The permanent headquarters of the United Nations (is / are) in New York City.

20. The national population census (was / were) held in the Republic of Belarus in 2009.

III. Выберите один из предложенных вариантов ответа:

1. The United States (has / have) a population of around 315 million people.

2. Five thousand dollars (was / were) donated to charity.

3. A number of people (was / were) injured in the explosion last week.

4. The majority of e-mail users (is / are) upset about the increase in spam.

5. Ninety kilometres an hour (was / were) over the speed limit.

6. About two-thirds of our school teachers (is / are) in their fifties.

7. How much (do / does) a good pair of trousers cost these days?

8. The Netherlands (is / are) a member of the European Union.

9. The number of visitors to our website (has / have) recently decreased.

10. A woman and her child (is / are) waiting to see Dr Carpenter.

11. There (has / have) been significant changes in the education system recently.

12. An inflation rate of only 2 per cent (make / makes) a big difference to exports.

13. The latest developments prove the saying that twenty-four hours (is / are) a long time in politics.

14. The minority of the respondents (think / thinks) that the administration’s policies have failed.

15. One of the things that really make me angry (is / are) people who don’t answer letters.

16. Exams (is / are) a necessary evil of higher education study so being prepared is the key to success.

17. The statistics in the report on socio-economic development of the region (is / are) erroneous.

18. About 80 per cent of all the information in computers around the world (is / are) in English.

19. The colours of the rainbow (is / are) remembered by the phrase ‘Richard Of York Gave Battle In Vain’ (Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo, Violet).

20. This exercise on singular-plural agreement of subjects and verbs (is / are) not very easy.