1. Nobody enjoys having a tooth ____.

A. drill and fill       B. drilling and filling

C. to drill and fill D. drilled and filled

2. It's no use our ____any longer. He may come by any train. He is

used to finding his way around.

A. to wait                B. waiting

C. to have waited D. having waited

3. The revolutionary fighter would rather die with his head high than

____with his knees bent.

A. to live                B. living

C. live                      D. lived

4. I forgot ____her that my coat buttons need to be sewn on.

A. reminding            B. having reminded

C. to remind           D. to have reminded

5. It's no good ____remember grammatical rules. You need to practise

what you have learned.

A. trying to             B. to try to

C. try to                   D. tried to

6. I feel like ____to the owner of the house to complain.

A. writing                 B. to write

C. write                     D. having written

7. As we approached the village we saw many new houses____.

A. built                     B. build

C. being built        D. building

8. Tim cannot but ____ his supervisor to help him solve the difficulty

he has in doing his project.

A. to ask                    B. ask

C. asking                    D. asked

9. Would you mind ____ quiet for a moment? I am trying ____a form.

A. keeping; filling out         B. to keep; to fill out

C. keeping; to fill out         D. to keep; filling out

10. I don't remember ____ to professor Brown during my last visit

to Harvard.

A. having introduced                B. having been introduced

C. to have introduced              D. to have been introduced

11. "Why did you leave the meeting early?" "I found the discussion ____."

A. boring                     B. bored

C. bore                         D. boredom

12. The electric shaver needs ____before it can be used.

A. repairing                B. to repair

C. being repaired     D. to be repairing

13. I did not mean ____anything, but those apples looked so good I couldn't resist____one.

A. to eat; trying      B. to eat; to trying

C. eating; to try      D. eating; to trying

14. I can't understand ____ a decision until it is late.

A. him to postpone to make              B. his postponing to make

C. him postpone making                      D. his postponing making

15. Mrs. Douglas unknowingly left a package ____on the shop counter.

A. laying                        B. to lie

C. laid                            D. lying

16. I dread____to pay another visit to the graveyard.

A. having                        B. to had

C. having had                D. have

17. The younger the child, the more readily the mother gives in to his

demands to avoid____him.

A. disappointing         B. to disappoint

C. disappoint                 D. to have disappointed

18. John made it clear that he objected to ____the circuit on the

original project.

A. being converted      B. convert

C. converting                 D. have converted

19. In such a large crowd the policemen had considerable difficulty ____

the woman who had calledfor help.

A. locating                     B. to locate

C. having located        D. locate

20. I would appreciate ____it a secret.

A. you to keep                B. that you keep

C. your keeping             D. that you will keep