II. Choose the best answer

1. Every day I spend two hours ___________  English.

A. practise       B to practise                C. practising    D. practised

2. The skiers would rather __________ through the mountains than go by bus.

A.to travel by train      B. travel by train                     C. traveled by train                 D. traveling by train

3.He likes _________ part in sports, so he joins the football team of the school.

A. to take        B. to taking     C. takes                       D. took

4. I don't remember___________ the front door when I left home.

A. to lock        B. lock             C. locked         D. locking

5.Children enjoy ___________  to ghost stories on Halloween night.

A.telling and listening             B. tell and listen                     

C. to tell and listen                  D. to tell and to listen

6. They decided ___________ to Japan for their summer holiday.  

A. going                      B. to go                       C. go               D. to going

7.His parents think it's time for him___________ married.              

A. gets             B. get              C. to get                      D. got

8.Peter's father ordered __________ not to stay out late again.                   

A. him             B. to him         C. that he        D. for him

9.Smoking is bad for your heath. You had better_________            it up.   

A. to give        B. give             C. giving         D. to be giving

10.I hope you don't mind __________  so late at night.

A. telephoning            B. to telephone            C.telephone     D.to have telephoned

11.It took three and a half hours _________  to Singapore.

A. to fly                      B. flying                      C. to be flown D. fly

12.She refused ___________ them . 

A.to help                                 B.help              C.having helped                      D.helping

13.My parents can't _________ seeing me at home all day. 

A. stop                        B. stand                       C. start                                    D. hate

14.___________is a popular sport in Europe.

            A. To ski                     B. Skiing         C. Ski              D. To skiing

15.There are many ways of _______  ourselves in a big city.

A. enjoy          B. enjoying     C. enjoyment   D. to enjoy

16.I never feel like _______   early on Monday morning.

A. getting up   B. get up         C. gets up        D. to get up

17.It is not easy ________      a high-paid job.

A. find                                    B. finding        C. finds                       D. to find

18.Would you like the doctor _________   ?

A. coming                               B. to come       C. come                       D. comes

19. There is no need ______ the door of the meeting room tonight.

A. to lock                                B. to be locking                       C.to be locked D. locked

20. My husband wants me _______   this letter before afternoon.

A. to post        B. posting        C. post             D. posts

21.I hate _______ the dirty dishes after a meal.

A. wash                       B. to washing  C. to wash                   D. to be washing

22.She doesn't like going  _______    in the sea in summer.

A. to swim      B. to be swimming      C. swimming   D. swim

23.I am afraid of _______      by the strong wind.

A.taking away             B.take away    C.being taken away    D.being taking away

24. We need to stop _________ at what damage we have done to the nature and try ________it before it's too late.

A. looking/ to fix                    B. to look/ to fix                     C.to look/ fixing                      D.looking/ fixing

25.Human beings must stop ______the environment

.A. to pollute   B. polluted      C.to  polluted  D.polluting

26.We walked for ten kilometers and then we stopped _______ a rest.

A. to have       B. have            C. having                     D. has

27.It is raining hard. We had better _______ at home tonight.

A. staying                    B to stay                      C. stay             D. to be staying

28.Before starting __________          for this company, I spent a year _______ .

A. work/travel             B.work/traveling            C.working/travel                              D.working/traveling

29.I _______ play with dolls when I was small.

A. enjoyed      B. hated                      C. started                    D. used to

30.It _______ him two hours to finish the exercise.

A. take            B. took                        C. to take                    D. taking

31.I had no difficulty ______            to her English.

A. listen           B. to listen       C. to listening              D. listening

32. We are ______      buying a new motorbike.

A. considering             B. deciding                             C. expecting    D. thinking

33.If the earth stops ______   around the sun, there will be no light on earth.

A. move                                  B. to move                              C. moved                    D. moving

35. If we don't do anything ___ the ice on the poles from melting, the earth will

     be flooded one day.

A. for stop                               B. to stopping             C. to stop                    D. stop

36.Unless we ______  throwing garbage into the river, it will be polluted.

A. stop                                                B. don't stop               C. will stop                  D. won't stop

37.The pollution rate in  this area seems ______        slowly.

A. increase                              B. increasing               C. to increase  D. to be increase

38.Your hair is too long now. It needs _________ .

A. to cut                                  B. cutting                                C. being cut     D. to be cutting

39. We all enjoy _________   English.A. learn                                  B. to learn                   C. learning                   D. learned

40.I expected them _______  me a job.

A. offer                                               B. offering                              C.to be offered           D.to offer