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d. Four out of five visitors to the museum stay for three hours or
longer. Museum visitors ……… (usually/seldom) ….. stay for at
least three hours.

e. We occasionally have quizzes in history class. The teacher
……… (always/sometimes) …….. gives quizzes in history class.

f. Subina always misses the morning assembly. She ...... (rarely/
never) ....... arrives at school on time.

g. In the desert, it rains only two days between May and September
every year. It ……… (rarely/often) …….. rains there in the sum-
mer.

h. Rohit asks me to go to the winter camp, but I don’t accept his
invitation. I ……… (seldom/often …….. go to the winter camp.

i. Lisa and Samrat go fishing at least three times a week. They
……… (usually/seldom) ………. go out to dinner with each other.

B. Rewrite the following sentences with the correct alternatives from
the brackets.

a. Your friendship over the years and your support ....... (has/have)
........ meant a great deal to us.

b. Hamilton Family Center, a shelter for teenage runaways in San
Francisco, ......... (offers/offer) .......... a wide variety of services.

c. One of the major sources of income of Trinidad ....... (is/are) .......
tourism.

d. The chances of your being promoted .... (is/are) ...... excellent.

e. There ............... (was/were) ............... a Pokemon card stuck to
the refrigerator.

f. Neither the professor nor his assistants ............... (was/were)
................ able to attend the conference.

g. Many hours at the driving range ...... (has/have) ....... led us to
design golf balls with GPS locators in them.

h. Discovered in the soil of our city garden ........ (was/were) ...... a
button dating from the turn of the century.

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