SYLLABUS/TOPIC: Infinitive – Gerund
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
After every 20 questions, the answers are provided.
1. He admitted ___ the car but denied ___ it by himself.
A) stealing / doing
B) to steal / doing
C) stealing / to do
D) to steal / to do
E) stealing / to be done
2. How do you feel if someone laughs at you? I hate people ___ at
me.
A) laughed
B) laughing
C) being laughed
D) to be laughed
E) to be laughing
3. We often hear her ___ at concerts.
A) sings
B) singing
C) sang
D) to sing
E) have sung
4. Mother wants him ___ to the country during the summer.
A) goes
B) go
C) to go
D) will go
E) went
5. ___ many books on history helps school children to get knowledge
about the past of different nations.
A) read
B) reads
C) has read
D) will read
E) reading
6. As well as ___ I like ___ .
A) running/walking
B) run/walk
C) run/walked
D) running/walked
E) run/to walk
7. The man ___ the newspaper is my brother.
A) read
B) reads
C) has read
D) reading
E) will read
8. It is very pleasant ___ in the river on hot days in the summers.
A) bathe
B) bathing
C) bathed
D) to bathe
E) having bathed
9. He warmed himself by ___ hot tea.
A) drinking
B) drank
C) drunk
D) to drink
E) is drinking
10. It’s very pleasant ___ on the beach in summer.
A) lie
B) to lie
C) lay
D) lain
E) lying
11. -I hope my dream will come true this year.
-And what do you dream of?
-Oh, I dream of ___ a law school and ___ a lawyer.
A) to enter / to become
B) enter / become
C) entering / becoming
D) entered / become
E) to enter / becoming
12. He sat in the arm-chair ___ a newspaper.
A) read
B) reads
C) reading
D) had read
E) is read
13. ___ English is the best way of ___ it.
A) speak / learn
B) speaking / learning
C) to speak / to learn
D) spoke / learning
E) speak / learning
14. She dreams of her son’s ___ a director of the company.
A) becoming
B) is becoming
C) become
D) became
E) was becoming
15. Why didn’t you try ___ yourself a job?
A) found
B) have found
C) finding
D) to find
E) to be found
16. We watched the coastline ___ slowly.
A) recede
B) to recede
C) recedes
D) have receded
E) receded
17. Nobody heard her ___ English.
A) spoke
B) speaks
C) speak
D) was speaking
E) had spoken.
18. We stopped at the motorway services ___ something to eat.
A) to get
B) to have got
C) was getting
D) get
E) got
19. I’m not really interested in ___ to the University.
A) go
B) went
C) going
D) being gone
E) have gone
20. This article is worth ___ .
A) reading
B) read
C) to read
D) has read
E) will read
ANSWERS:
1-A
2-B
3-B
4-C
5-E
6-A
7-D
8-D
9-A
10-B
11-C
12-C
13-B
14-A
15-D
16-A
17-C
18-A
19-C
20-A
21. They have got enough money ___ to the cinema.
A) go
B) having gone
C) to have gone
D) to go
E) going
22. I saw him ___ a newspaper.
A) to read
B) to have read
C) reading
D) to be reading
E) having read
23. Watch me ___ the fence.
A) jumping
B) jumped
C) to jump
D) had jumped
E) did jump
24. She decided ___ to Spain for her holidays.
A) to go
B) go
C) goes
D) to be going
E) to have gone
25. In winter he spends much time in the mountains, he is fond of
___ .
A) to skate
B) skated
C) skating
D) to be skated
E) having skated
26. The street was full of people ___ and ___ home.
A) laughed / gone
B) laughing / going
C) having laughed / go
D) to laugh / to go
E) to be laughed / going
27. ___ a foreign language you can ___ great opportunities in your
life.
A) know / have
B) knowing / to have
C) knowing / have
D) knows / having
E) knowing / having
28. On ___ the classroom the teacher asked to the pupil on duty,
“Who is absent?”
A) entering
B) entered
C) to enter
D) be entering
E) being entered
29. Working in the garden it is pleasant ___ to music.
A) listening
B) listened
C) to listen
D) after listening
E) having listened
30. You are lucky you have not got a child ___ .
A) to look after
B) should look after
C) looking after
D) having looked after
E) is looking after
31. She saw the girl ___ in the yard.
A) playing
B) on playing
C) played
D) to play
E) was playing
32. He usually left us without ___ a word.
A) to say
B) saying
C) said
D) say
E) having been said
33. I’m fond of ___ in the river.
A) have swum
B) swam
C) swim
D) swimming
E) having swum
34. The aim of the exhibition is ___ experience.
A) to be exchanged
B) exchanged
C) to have exchanged
D) to exchange
E) being exchanged
35. The horse ___ the race ___ the winner of the same event two years
ago.
A) led / was
B) leading / is
C) leading / was
D) to lead / was
E) leads / being
36. His mother was against his ___ football.
A) play
B) was playing
C) played
D) to play
E) playing
37. Miss Benson was looking forward to ___ the title role in the new
play.
A) play
B) playing
C) to be played
D) played
E) being played
38. Pete likes ___ . His dream is to visit Japan.
A) painting
B) reading
C) writing
D) traveling
E) swimming
39. My friends need ___ English
A) learns
B) to learn
C) to have learned
D) to be learned
E) having learned
40. When I came into the room she stopped ___ T.V.
A) watching
B) watch
C) watched
D) on watching
E) watches
ANSWERS:
21-D
22-C
23-A
24-A
25-C
26-B
27-C
28-A
29-C
30-A
31-A
32-B
33-D
34-D
35-C
36-E
37-B
38-D
39-B
40-A
41. Which of the boys ___ in the yard is Ted?
A) play
B) played
C) plays
D) is playing
E) playing
42. We saw them ___ the street.
A) crossed
B) crossing
C) will cross
D) had crossed
E) will be crossing
43. It’s never too late ___ .
A) being learned
B) not to learn
C) learned
D) learning
E) to learn
44. The girls ___ in the garden are my sisters.
A) played
B) to play
C) playing
D) on playing
E) are playing
45. I like ___ the people happy.
A) to have made
B) made
C) making
D) having made
E) being made
46. Besides ___ I like ___ swimming competitions.
A) swimming / to watch
B) to swim / to watch
C) swimming / watched
D) to swim / watching
E) swimming / watch
47. Tom wants to read a book but Susan makes him ___ something in
the paper. It’s an advertisement for a better job. She wants him
___ for this job.
A) to read / to apply
B) to read / apply
C) read / to apply
D) reading / apply
E) to read / applying
48. She left the room without ___ good bye.
A) say
B) saying
C) to say
D) said
E) on saying
49. The friends spoke of their ___ together.
A) to go
B) going
C) gone
D) is going
E) on going
50. If your plane has crashed high in the mountains, it’s best ___ close to
the plane. Rescuers have got a better chance of ___ the plane than
one person alone.
A) to keep / finding
B) keeping / found
C) kept / to have found
D) kept / not to find
E) keeping / being found
51. Robert saw the doctor ___ the patient.
A) to examine
B) to have examined
C) having examined
D) being examined
E) examine
52. The girl ___ in the yard asked me the time.
A) play
B) to play
C) played
D) playing
E) was playing
53. The emperor thought of ___ his state powerful.
A) becoming
B) become
C) became
D) having become
E) had become
54. Mother was anxious ___ her family.
A) to see
B) seeing
C) to be seen
D) having seen
E) being seen
55. I can’t help ___ you about it.
A) to tell
B) telling
C) having told
D) having been told
E) being told
56. Many builders and engineers from other republics began ___ to
build new houses in Moscow in 1995.
A) helping
B) would help
C) helped
D) shall help
E) having helped
57. I have never heard him ___ French.
A) to speak
B) speaking
C) spoken
D) being spoken
E) to have spoken
58. Nobody expected him ___ Lola.
A) marry
B) married
C) to marry
D) will marry
E) would marry
59. This holiday is worth ___ .
A) celebrates
B) celebrated
C) celebrating
D) have celebrated
E) to celebrate
60. Frank is in hospital. He feels bad. He has to give up ___ and ___
beer. But he can’t. He says to his wife, ‘’Would you mind ___
some cigarettes next time?”
A) smoking / to drink / bringing
B) to smoke / drinking / bringing
C) smoking / drank / bringing
D) smoking / drinking / bringing
E) to smoke / to drink / to bring
ANSWERS:
41-E
42-B
43-E
44-C
45-C
46-A
47-C
48-B
49-B
50-A
51-E
52-D
53-A
54-A
55-B
56-A
57-B
58-C
59-C
60-D
61. Ernest Hemingway was fond of ___ books.
A) read
B) to read
C) reading
D) be read
E) to be read
62. Turn on the radio. I want ___ to the news.
A) listen
B) listening
C) to listen
D) listened
E) have been listened
63. How do you feel if someone interrupts you?I hate people ___
me.
A) interrupted
B) to be interrupted
C) not to interrupt
D) having interrupted
E) interrupting
64. After ___ my work I’ll join you.
A) finish
B) to finish
C) have finished
D) finishing
E) finished
65. Please, try ___ quiet, everyone is sleeping.
A) be
B) to be
C) being
D) having been
E) been
66. He enjoyed ___ .
A) singing
B) sing
C) was singing
D) to sing
E) sung
67. The man ___ in the garden is listening to music.
A) work
B) is working
C) working
D) to work
E) worked
68. ___ the article we began ___ it.
A) reading / discuss
B) having read / discussing
C) to read / to discuss
D) read / discussing
E) reading / discussed
69. The man ___ a cigarette is Tom’s cousin.
A) smoked
B) to smoke
C) smoking
D) have smoked
E) had smoked
70. I study English again, because ___ a foreign language is very
important.
A) speak
B) spoken
C) having spoken
D) speaking
E) spoke
71. I like your ___ English.
A) speak
B) speaking
C) was spoken
D) have spoken
E) having spoken
72. Instead of ___ for Olga at home I decided ___ her in the street.
A) to wait / to meet
B) waiting / to meet
C) waiting / meeting
D) to wait / to meet
E) wait / meeting
73. They looked at the ___ plane.
A) flying
B) flown
C) flew
D) being flown
E) having been flown
74. ___ the language he couldn’t understand the question.
A) know
B) knows
C) not to know
D) known
E) not knowing
75. Which of these four young men ___ by the fire is your son?
A) sitting
B) sit
C) will sit
D) sits
E) sat
76. We expect him ___ tomorrow.
A) arrived
B) to arrive
C) to have arrived
D) to be arrived
E) having arrived
77. They sat up all night ___ .
A) talk
B) talked
C) talking
D) to be talked
E) to have talked
78. The young man didn’t stop ___ although I asked him twice.
A) is smoking
B) smoked
C) smoking
D) smoked
E) to smoke
79. He introduced me to an acquaintance ___ that I did not know her.
A) to believe
B) believing
C) to have believed
D) of believing
E) not to believe
80. I hope ___ you this evening.
A) to see
B) to be seen
C) have seen
D) see
E) seen
ANSWERS:
61-C
62-C
63-E
64-D
65-B
66-A
67-C
68-B
69-C
70-D
71-B
72-B
73-A
74-E
75-A
76-B
77-C
78-C
79-B
80-A
81. I am thankful for his ___ in time.
A) came
B) come
C) to have come
D) coming
E) to come
82. I remember the day when you took me aboard of your ship to
help you in ___ the shark.
A) hunt
B) to hunt
C) hunting
D) hunted
E) having hunted
83. But the beaver went on ___ lace.
A) to make
B) make
C) made
D) making
E) have made
84. ___ with you is real pleasure.
A) talked
B) is talking
C) on talking
D) talking
E) talks
85. What time do you come to the office?
-Usually at 9, but tomorrow I’ll have to be there a bit earlier ___
through some documents.
A) looking
B) looked
C) to be looking
D) to look
E) to be looked
86. We knew nothing of his ___ a student.
A) being
B) be
C) been
D) to be
E) to have been
87. He remembered he was going to buy a new suit ___ the shop.
A) pass
B) passes
C) to pass
D) passing
E) will pass
88. ___ for better future many Asians leave their native countries ___ to
Europe.
A) hope / move
B) hoping / moves
C) hoped / moving
D) hoping / moving
E) hope / moving
89. She tried to be serious but she couldn’t help ___ .
A) to laugh
B) laughing
C) laughed
D) laugh
E) having laughed
90. Would you mind ___ the door, please?
A) to close
B) being closed
C) closing
D) close
E) closed
91. She has nobody ___ to.
A) talked
B) to talk
C) talk
D) talks
E) is talking
92. I enjoy ___ in the garden at week-ends.
A) work
B) to work
C) to be working
D) working
E) worked
93. He is an artistic person - very good at ___ poetry.
A) to write
B) to be written
C) having written
D) write
E) writing
94. ___ in Geneva for many years he knew the city well.
A) Living
B) Lived
C) Being lived
D) To live
E) Have lived
95. Captain was the last ___ the ship.
A) leaving
B) is leaving
C) on leaving
D) to leave
E) left
96. I don’t mind ___ .
A) to walk
B) be walking
C) walking
D) having been walked
E) to have walked
97. If you are lost in a snow storm it’s best ___ a hole and sit in it until
it stops ___ .
A) digging / snowing
B) dig / snowed
C) to dig / snowed
D) digging / snowed
E) to dig / snowing
ANSWERS:
81-D
82-C
83-D
84-D
85-D
86-A
87-D
88-D
89-B
90-C
91-B
92-D
93-E
94-A
95-D
96-C
97-E
