Ex. 2. Choose the right form in brackets. Translate into Russian. Consult a dictionary if necessary.

Date: 2015-10-07; view: 488.

1. The Niagara Falls (is/are) very popular with tourists and used to supply electricity.

2. The addenda (contains/contain) many new words.

3. A number of my friends (thinks/think) I should take a holiday.

4. 3 cubed (is/are) 27.

5. 6 (is/are) integer, but 6.3 (is/are) not.

6. There (is/are) lots of snow in the garden.

7. What (is/are) your politics?

8. Microelectronics (concerns/concern) the production of very small printed circuits and components.

9. Microeconomics (studies/study) the economics of a single industry, product, or other features within a larger system.

10. There (is/are) far greater variety among the white wines of the district than red.

11. Two salmon (was/were) caught.

12. Neither John nor his cat (eats/eat) garlic with strawberries.

13. Either she or I (am/is/are) wrong.

14. Three Pigs (is/are) the longest book I've ever read.

15. Those sort of cars (is/are) tremendously expensive to run.

16. Five pounds (doesn't/don't) buy as much as used to.

17. A group of us (has/have) decided to hire a boat and travel through Holland by canal.

18. Most of the local media (is/are) flabbergasting.

19. Gemini (is/are) a constellation in the northern sky, thought to resemble the twin brothers.

20. Guinea fowl (is/are) widely domesticated and raised for food.

21. Rabies (is/are) out of control in many parts of the country.

22. Approximately 60% of the community (is/are) of polish and Russian ancestry, and approximately 40% (is/are) blacks.

23. Mr Frogg or his wife (was/were) about to take a bath.

24. I went on a fourteen day diet and all I lost (was/were) two weeks.

25. History (is/are) tables agreed upon. (Voltaire)

26. Computation seems to show that the number of sheep in Scotland in 1378 (was/were) about a million and a half, very much what it had been in 1327.

27. The cat is the best person in our family. The second best (is/am) I.

28. Flanders (was/were) an important battle ground in the First World War.

29. What percentage of students (flunks/flunk) every year?

30. The cast (was/were) all amateurs.

31. After the bombing there (was/were) a lot of debris everywhere.

32. Check that no food or drink (has/have) been consumed.

33. In recent years asbestos used in building (has/have) been found to be harmful to humans.

34. Half the group's sales (is/are) to be used to cut its borrowings.

35. Your histrionics (gets/get) on my nerves.

36. Seventeen times three hundred and eighty-one (makes/make) six thousand, four hundred and seventy-seven.

37. The hammer and sickle (was/were) flying from the flagpole.

38. Agilent Technologies (AT), an American firm, (has/have) signed an agreement with Russia's State Committee for Standartization, Metrology and Certification (Gosstandart) and its affiliate, the All-Russia Research Institute of Physiotechnical Measurements (VNIIFTRI) for the supply of $1.5 million worth of calibrators.

39. Another of New Zealand's heroically boring attractions (is/are) the Waitomo Caves glowworm grotto, where hundreds of thousands of worms simply hang there, glowing.

40. Pompeii (was/were) destroyed by the volcano.