Graded Quiz 1. Verb-Tense Agreement

Since restaurants rarely skimps on rich ingredients like butter and salt, some researchers now say that "sit-down" restaurant food is nutritionally no better than fast food.

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• rarely skimp

• is rarely skimping

• has rarely skimped

Having strict and sometimes unusual routines are common for many creative people who are trying to stay productive. For example, Franz Kafka wrote all through the night, while Ernest Hemingway was up every morning at 5:00am to write without disturbance.

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• have been

• was

• is

Some consider it foolish to build one's own hot-air balloon to travel around the world; others might call it a brilliant way to avoid rising rates in air travel.

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• considers

• is considering

• has considered

Composer Max Richter is not afraid of his audience dozing off. In fact, his eight-hour composition, charmingly entitled Sleep, have been performed in a concert hall outfitted with hundreds of beds.

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• are performed

• was performed

• were performed

Samuel Adams was by no means the first American to espouse the democratic cause, but he has been the first who conceived the party machinery that made it practical.

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• having been the first who conceived

• was the first to conceive

• having been the first to conceive