Exercise 5
The following sentences are taken from Understanding Integrated Science for the
21
st
Century Book 1A by Aristo Educational Press Limited.
Decide whether the verb should be singular or plural. Then
fill in each blank with the
correct verb given in brackets.
e.g. There are (is, are) twenty-two country parks in Hong Kong.
1. One of the ways to find answers ______________ to carry out an investigation.
(be)
2. A scientist ____________, _____________ and ____________. Scientists
____________ and _____________ to arrive at a conclusion. (record, analyse,
think, discuss, try)
3. There _____________ variations within the same kind of living things.
4. There ________________ more than a million kinds
of animals found in the
world.
5. There _______________ about 350 000 different kinds of plants found in the
world.
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Exercise 6
The following sentences are taken from Understanding Integrated Science for the
21
st
Century Book 1B by Aristo Educational Press Limited.
Decide whether the verb should be singular or plural. Then fill in each blank with the
correct verb given in brackets.
e.g. There are (is, are) twenty-two country parks in Hong Kong.
1. There __________ (is, are) many forms of energy.
2. There __________ (is, are) about 17000 wind turbines in Clifornia in the USA.
3. There __________ (is, are) chemicals inside a dry cell.
4.
In Hong Kong, there __________ (is, are) no natural lakes or big rivers.
5. There __________ (is, are) 92 elements in nature.
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