Choose the best answer A, B , C or D to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
1. We regret ______ you that you haven’t been selected for the post of senior manager.
| A. informing | B. inform | C. informed | D. to inform |
2. Ted managed ______ my mind.
| A. to change | B. changing | C. having changed | D. change |
3. I can’t afford ______ a new car.
| A. buying | B. to buy | C. bought | D. buy |
4. I finally finished ______ at 7:00 pm and served dinner.
| A. cooking | B. being cooked | C. to cook | D. to be cooked |
5. The president agreed ______ the Agreement.
| A. to sign | B. sign | C. signing | D. to have signed |
6. Would you mind ______ the door?
| A. close | B. have closed | C. closing | D. to close |
7. I want ______ because I enjoy ______ people and ______ new places.
| A. travel/meet/see | B. to travel/meeting/seeing | C. travelling/meeting/to see | D. to travel/to meet/to see |
8. She wanted ______ home but the boss made her ______ until she finished ______ those contracts.
| A. to go/stay/typing | B. going/to stay/to type | C. to go/staying/type | D. go/stay/typed |
9. We decided ______ at home.
| A. to stay | B. stay | C. staying | D. having stayed |
10. Frank tends ______ too much.
| A. to have drunk | B. drinking | C. drink | D. to drink |
11. They spent two months ______ their house.
| A. renew | B. renewed | C. renewing | D. to renew |
12. It takes three hours ______ to Paris.
| A. getting | B. get | C. got | D. to get |
13. I suggested ______ a suit and tie when we went to the interview.
| A. to wear | B. wear | C. worn | D. wearing |
14. She admitted ______ the money.
| A. stolen | B. be stealing | C. have stolen | D. having stolen |
15. Your shoes need ______.
| A. to be cleaned | B. cleaning | C. to clean | D. A & B are correct |
16. We should avoid ______ our environment.
| A. to pollute | B. polluted | C. polluting | D. being polluted |
17. I prefer ______ to ______.
| A. walking-cycle | B. walk-cycle | C. walking-cycling | D. to walk-cycling |
18. The captain chose ______ with his ship.
| A. die | B. to die | C. to have died | D. dying |
19. Vietnam failed ______ Tiger Cup 2004!
| A. winning | B. win | C. to win | D. to have won |
20. ______ natural resources is of great importance.
| A. Be preserve | B. Preserving | C. Preserved | D. Presevered |
21. It’s very kind of you ______ me how to start this engine.
| A. show | B. showing | C. to show | D. shown |
22. Those tourists were too tired ______ their journey.
| A. continue | B. to continue | C. continuing | D. continued |
23. She is patient enough ______ that disabled child.
| A. help | B. helping | C. to help | D. helps |
24. Please show me how ______ this.
| A. do | B. to do | C. doing | D. to have done |
25. The exam is coming, so the teachers make their students ______ a lot.
| A. working | B. worked | C. to work | D. work |
26. These employees are made ______ overtime.
| A. work | B. to work | C. working | D. worked |
27. The council considers ______ vehicles from the city center to relieve traffic jams and air pollution.
| A. ban | B. banning | C. banned | D. to banning |
28. Loyalty is considered ______ one of the important qualities for true friendship.
| A. being | B. been | C. to be | D. be |
29. The teacher never lets us ______ out when ______ the lesson.
| A. to go – explains | B. go – explaining | C. go – to explain | D. gone – explained |
30. I ran ten kilometers without ______.
| A. stop | B. stopping | C. stopped | D. be stopping |
31. Nobody will approve of your ______ that way.
| A. have behaved | B. behaving | C. having to behave | D. behave |
32. She did nothing but ______.
| A. cry | B. to cry | C. to have cried | D. crying |
33. Everyone likes ______ when they have got some success.
| A. to congratulate | B. to be congratulate | C. to be congratulating | D. being congratulated |
34. I don’t feel like ______ to the cinema now.
| A. go | B. going | C. to go | D. to have gone |
35. Would you like ______ me some tea?
| A. make | B. making | C. made | D. to make |
36. Tourists are not allowed ______ in the Temple.
| A. to talk | B. talk | C. talking | D. being talked |
37. The teacher doesn’t allow ______ dictionaries in the final examination.
| A. being used | B. use | C. using | D. to use |
38. He didn’t permit them ______ through the military zone. He forced them ______ another way.
| A. going / to go | B. to go / to go | C. to go / going | D. go / go |
39. He advised me ______ the facts before I made a decision ______ the job.
| A. considering – accept | B. to consider – accepting | C. to consider – accept | D. to consider – to accept |
40. I caught her ______ my diary.
| A. reading | B. read | C. to read | D. have read |
41. She keeps ______ to visit us, but she never does.
| A. to promise | B. promise | C. promises | D. promising |
42. Sorry to keep you ______ so long.
| A. waiting | B. wait | C. to wait | D. to have waited |
43. Due to having a lot of things ______ last night, we missed ______ the film.
| A. for doing / to see | B. done / saw | C. doing / see | D. to do / seeing |
44. “It’s warmer in here now.” – “Yes, I had Karen ______ the window.”
| A. closed | B. closing | C. to close | D. close |
45. His doctor advised him ______, but he found it impossible ______ his habit.
| A. stopped smoking / quit | B. to stop to smoke / quitting | C. stopping smoking / for quitting | D. to stop smoking / to quit |
46. They reminded me ______ late.
| A. to not come | B. not coming | C. not to come | D. to come not |
47. He risked ______ his house when his company went bankrupt.
| A. lose | B. to lose | C. losing | D. lost |
48. They will have some workers ______ their house.
| A. redecorate | B. to redecorate | C. redecorating | D. redecorated |
49. He warned ______ anything.
| A. not to touch | B. me to not touch | C. me not to touch | D. not touching |
50. They all denied ______ her.
| A. being seen | B. of seeing | C. having seen | D. to see |
