Exercise 2: Choose the best answer

1. The children appear………….about the trip.

   A. to excite                B. to be excited                     C. exciting                  D. being excited

2. I don t appreciate……………..when I am speaking.

      A. interrupting           B. being interrupted              C. to interrupt            D. interrupted

3. The mountain climbers are in danger of…………….by an avalanche.

     A. killing                    B. being killed                       C. having killed          D. to be killed

4. Mrs. Gates appreciated……………….breakfast in bed when she wasn t feeling well.

 A. serving                   B. to be served                       C. having served         D. being served

5. Sally s low test scores kept her from………………to the university.

A. admitting               B. having admitted                 C. being admitted      D. to be admitted

6. I don t remember………….of the decision to change the company policy on vacations. When was it decided?

        A. telling                    B. being told                          C. to tell                     D. to be told

7.  We are very sorry for……………..much noise last night.

            A. to make                  B. making                               C. made                      D. make

8. The bedroom needs……………………now.

      A. decorate                 B. decorated                           C. decorating             D. to decorate

9. She went out with her friends without………for permission from her parents.

            A. ask                          B. to ask                                 C. asked                      D. askin

10. Every day I spend two hours ___________  English.

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

11. 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

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

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

13. I don t remember___________ the front door when I left home.

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

14.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 my__________  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.Shedoesn 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. Do you ______  me to type this letter for you?

A. want                                               B. love                         C. enjoy           D. fancy

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

34. 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

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