非谓语动词练习5

1. Mr. Smith, _______ of the ________ speech, started to read a novel.

A. tired; boring

B. tiring; bored

C. tired; bored

D. tiring; boring

2. On getting to the kindergarten, the mother was glad to see her baby well _________.

A. looked for

B. cared for

C. take care of

D. cared after

3. The two old sisters, _________ so long, held each other and burst into tears.

A. being separated

B. having been separated

C. having separated

D. had been separated

4. Let’s have a rest. The _______ work made me very ________.

A. tired; tired

B. tiring; tiring

C. tired; tiring

D. tiring; tired

5. Just as the value of a telephone network increases with each new phone _________ to the system, so does the value of a computer system increase with each program that turns out.

A. adding

B. to have added

C. to add

D. added

6. As we all know, newspapers, magazines and radios as well as television broadcasts can keep us ______ about what is happening in the world.

A. informing

B. to inform

C. informed

D. being informed

7. Everyone was ________ by his _______ progress which he made during the two months.

A. surprised; surprise

B. surprised; surprised

C. surprised; surprising

D. surprising; surprising

8. When he turned around, he found a pair of eyes _________ him.

A. looking

B. watch at

C. fixing on

D. staring at

9. The film you saw last light was made _________ on a true story that happened many years ago.

A. base

B. to be based

C. based

D. basing

10. After _______ his work, the teacher came to help me with my English.

A. finished

B. being finished

C. having finished

D. be finishing

11. Follow the directions on the bottle carefully when __________the medicine.

A. you will take

B. taking

C. to take

D. taken

12. The students, ________ their teachers, came home.

A. followed

B. follow

C. following

D. will follow

13. The long-lasting war, filled with blood and deaths, ended in people’s sadness, _______ no result.

A. reached

B. to reach

C. would reach

D. reaching

14. They spent the night _________ in the room.

A. having locked

B. locking

C. to be locked

D. locked

15. He wrote a letter to the king ___________.

A. hoping to be set free

B. to set him free

C. so that be set free

D. asked to be set free

16. Steven has devoted all his life to _______ films, and Kate, his wife, is also ________ to the duty of her profession.

A. make; devoted

B. making; devoting

C. making; devoted

D. make; devoting

17. ________ in the dark, his head hit against a tree.

A. Walking

B. He was walking

C. Walked

D. When he was walking

18. Time should be made good use ________ our lessons well.

A. of learning

B. to learn

C. to learning

D. of to learn

19. The film, ________ true story of this Red Army general, attracted people’s interest all over the country.

A. is based on

B. is on the base of

C. which is the base of

D. based upon

20. She returned home from the market only to find the door open and a number of things _______.

A. stole

B. missing

C. missed

D. losing

21. _________ it rains, we will stay at home.

A. Supposed

B. Supposing

C. To suppose

D. If suppose

22. _________ with yours, our library is _________ too small a size.

A. Comparing; in

B. Comparing; of

C. Compared; in

D. Compared; of

23. It’s dangerous to carry a hot pan with ________ oil.

A. burning

B. burnt

C. burn

D. burns

24. We were told that the stone figure _______ back to the 16th century was of great value.

A. dated

B. dating

C. coming

D. kept

25. The boy lay on his back, his teeth _______ and his glaring eyes _______ straight upwards.