Title: Default for Exercise 8 – Verb Agreement and Tense
Course: Applied English for Science and Technology

Q: Choose the correct verb in the sentences below.

1. In the past three months, a new series of low-priced computers [...].

2. The insurance company hopes that neither the architect nor the construction firm [...] liable.

3. In the next section, the criteria for assessing each system [...].

4. To connect a temperature measurement circuit to the HC_11 microcontroller, we added new hardware and developed new software. The added hardware controlled both the measurement and the display of the temperature. This hardware [...] light emitting diodes that [...] to Port B. Figure 1 [...] a schematic of this hardware.

5. Conclusion. This report [...] a design of a temperature measurement circuit for the HC_11 microcontroller.
A: has been released; is held; are given; included; attached; shows; has presented
Gap 1 offers: has been released; have been released
Gap 2 offers: are held; is held
Gap 3 offers: are given; is given
Gap 4 offers: included; includes
Gap 5 offers: attach; attached
Gap 6 offers: showed; shows
Gap 7 offers: has presented; presented; presents