I believe it’s when the noun preceding the is/are that determines it. Let’s say we use a term like water, sugar, milk - Things that are uncountable. In this case, we’ll use "is": None of the milk is spoilt/ None of the water is contaminated.


Since "items" can be counted, we should use the plural form.

Hi, the answers are as follows:


1) are (students precede the word university so the plural form should be used as it refers to the students)

2) are (the word "none" is usually treated as a plural)

3) hold off (hold on is to keep hold of it, which doesn’t suit the context; hold up is to stall; hold out is to resist something)

4) have scored (The addition of "have" is to suit the sentence because there isn’t a specific time like yesterday, last week, or two days ago. "Have scored" is the present perfect tense that explains scoring but the timing is unknown.)

It’s a little confusing but I think it’s A1.


This question is testing on restrictive/non-restrictive clauses. The first answer is an example of a non-restrictive clause because it is implying that there are several other girls who are dancers as well. The second answer is restrictive because it implies that only that girl is a dancer, out of all the girls.

Going by that logic, the question is saying that, that particular girl is a dancer. It doesn’t mention that whether the other girls were dancers or not. I suppose the answer is then the first because it’s a given information that she was part of a group and she was also a dancer. I may be wrong on this because the question is kind of tricky so I would suggest waiting for someone else to reply?

Hello, for the cloze section, the answers are as follows:


51) enters
53) longer
55) separates
62) drop
63) green
64) distributed
65) caught