GERUNDS & INFINITIVES TEST 2 (25 QUESTIONS)

1.I would lend you my bicycle, but the chain needs ----.

A)   fixed
B)   to fix
C)   fixing
D)   to be fixing
E)   having fixed

2.Three firemen had to come out of the blazing warehouse for fear ---- by the smoke.

A)  to have suffocated
B)  having suffocated
C)  from suffocating
D)  to be suffocated
E)  of being suffocated

3.Because the weather is so changeable here, I usually take a cardigan with me in case it gets colder later in the day as I can't stand ---- cold all day.

A)   to be feeling
B)   feel
C)   having felt
D)   to have felt
E)   feeling

4.One of the best forms of exercise is ---- because it uses a lot of muscles without ---- any of them.

A)   to swim/being strained
B)   having swum/to strain
C)   swimming/straining
D)   to be swimming/having strained
E)   to have swum/strained

5.I doubt that her father will Set her----on this camping holiday with us because he thinks she is too young ---- a holiday with her friends.

A)   go/to take
B)   to go/to be taking
C)   going/having taken
D)   having gone/taking
E)   to be going/take

6.I didn't mean----that your products aren't normally very good, but this machine is definitely faulty.

A)   being implied
B)   imply
C)   to imply
D)   to be implying
E)   having implied

7.I disapprove of her ---- so much time ---- computer games. It is not healthy.

A)   to spend/to play
B)   spending/playing
C)   to have spent/having played
D)   having spent/play
E)   to be spending/played

8.I hope you don't delay ---- the report any longer now that you've completed ---- those accounts.

A)   writing/checking
B)   to write/to check
C)   being written/having checked
D)   to be writing/to have checked
E)   to be written/being checked

9.Although the fire chief told the owner of the burning store ---- the building immediately, he was still trying ---- at least some of the contents of his shop out.

A)   to have left/bringing
B)   to be left/to be brought
C)   having left/brought
D)   to leave/to bring
E)   being left/to have brought

10.After much pleading, the students got the teacher ---- the exam until next Monday.

A)   postponing
B)   to postpone
C)   postpone
D)   postponed
E)   having postponed

11.It took us so long ---- the material my mother wanted that, by the time we got home, I was too tired ---- steady on my feet.

A)   finding/standing
B)   to find/to stand
C)   to have found/stand
D)   find/to have stood
E)    having found/stood

12.During her apprenticeship as a fashion designer, she learnt how ---- the best material for each piece of clothing.

 

A)  choosing
B)  to have chosen
C)  having chosen
D)  to choose
E)  to be choosing

13.Just let me ---- which day your parents will arrive and I'll be glad ---- them around Eskişehir.

 

A)   to know/to be showing
B)   know/to show
C)   known/to have shown
D)   knowing/showing
E)   have known/having shown

14.The part in the film where the man broke down the door made some of the audience ---- a cry.

 

A)   to give
B)   giving
C)   give
D)   given
E)   gave

15.This painting appears ---- a valuable one. I think you should get an expert ---- it.

A)    have been/to be valuing
B)   to have been/value
C)   being/being valued
D)   having been/valued
E)   to be/to value

16.He has just phoned ---- me that the supplier was prepared ---- the price by one hundred dollars.

A)   to have told/reducing
B)   to be telling/reduce
C)   telling/to have reduced
D)   to tell/to reduce
E)   having told/having reduced

17.To celebrate the town's five hundredth anniversary, they are having a sculpture ---- by a famous sculptor who was born there.

A)   made
B)   make
C)   to make
D)   making
E)   to be making

18.There isn't any point ---- for your examinations at the last minute. It won't help you----anything.

A)   for cramming/to remember
B)   in cramming/remember
C)   to be cramming/remembering
D)   crammed/to have remembered
E)   having crammed/remembered

19.Smoking is known----hazardous, yet a large number of people keep ---- it.

A)   as being/to be doing
B)   for being/to do
C)   to be/doing
D)   being/to have done
E)   having been/having done

20.Can you tell me where ---- the customer record cards please?

A)   finding
B)   to be finding
C)   to find
D)   having found
E)   to have found

21.At first, my father had difficulty ----to retirement, but slowly he began to enjoy ---- in the garden.

A)   adjust/be working
B)    adjusted/having worked
C)   having adjusted/to be working
D)   adjusting/working
E)   to adjust/to work

22.It's typical of her ---- more time than usual tidying up whenever she has an essay ---- .

A)    being spent/written
B)   to be spending/write
C)   spend/writing
D)   spending/having written
E)   to spend/to write

23.After several cities have put forward their proposals ---- the Olympic Games, the International Olympic Committee decides which city ---- the next Olympics in.

 

A)   to host/to hold
B)    being hosted/holding
C)   hosting/to be held
D)   to have hosted/hold
E)   to be hosted/having held

24.We ought to have the carpets ----before your parents come to visit.

A)   cleaning
B)   clean
C)   cleaned
D)   to clean
E)   being cleaned

25.The word deafness is used ---- any degree of hearing loss, though it is most common when there is a total inability ----

A)   to describing/hearing
B)   for describing/heard
C)   to be described/being heard
D)   to describe/to hear
E)   describing/having heard