For each of the following sentences, identify the correct subject/verb pairing.
For help with this exercise, see chapter 24 of Real Essays 5e.
Example
Gender discrimination in hiring practices (is, are) often hard to prove.
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Gender discrimination would be easier to prove if you could compare hiring outcomes in situations when the gender of job applicants (is, are) known and when it is unknown.
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Exactly this type of comparison between hiring outcomes (is, are) now complete for one group of employers—
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A new study of orchestra hiring practices (finds, find) that women are more likely to get a seat in a major orchestra if they audition anonymously.
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Orchestras throughout the country (uses, use) “blind” auditions to evaluate musicians and have done so since the early 1970s.
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For the first and second rounds of auditions, applicants for a position with the orchestra (performs, perform) from behind a thick screen to hide their identity from the judges.
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Economists Claudia Goldin of Harvard University and Cecilia Rouse of Princeton University analyzed data from the late 1950s to 1996 to determine whether blind auditioning at major orchestras (improves, improve) the chances that a woman will be hired.
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According to Goldin and Rouse, the percentage of female musicians in the top five American orchestras (is, are) 20 percent higher now than it was in 1970.
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Their study of orchestras (reports, report) that the use of screens boosts by 25 to 45 percent the odds that a woman will be hired.
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The authors of the study conclude that the switch to blind auditions (explains, explain) about one-
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