高中英语-动词ing练习题

高一英语动词—ing形式练习题

1. Taking pictures___ very interesting. A. is B. are C. to be D. be

2.______ the bad news made him cry. A. Hear B. Heard C. Hearing D. Is hearing

3._____ a desert had always been a risk adventure.

A. being crossed

B. Having crossed

C. Crossing

D. To have crossed

4. Before he came, I’d finished _______ the whole book.

A. to read

B. to have read

C. reading

D. read

5. I always enjoy ____ to popular music at night.

A. to listen

B. listening

C. that I can listen

D. if I can listen

6. We are considering ________ a trip around the island.

A. take

B. to take

C. to be taken

D. taking

7. I hope you don’t mind ____ at your newspaper.

A. I look

B. my looking

C. I looking

D. my to look

When a man’s heart stops ______, he dies. A. to beat B. beating C. beat D. beaten

9. I can’t help _______ he is still alive. A. thinking B. think C. to think D. thought of

10. So far as I am concerned, I prefer reading ________.

A. than meat

B. for joy

C. instead of sleeping D to drinking

11. It goes without _______ that knowledge is important.

A. talking

B. telling

C. saying

D. mentioning

12. We are looking forward ______ our friends next week.

A. to see

B. to seeing

C. to be seeing

D. shall see

13. He spent a lot of money _____ books and magazines. A. buy B. buying C. to buy D. bought

14. The silkworm is an insect worth _____.

A. to know

B. knowing

C. to be known

D. being known

15. She went out without ______ good-bye to us. A. say B. to say C. saying D. being said The curious student kept on _______ questions. A. asks B. asking C. to ask D. asked

17. He is such a strange person; there’s _____ what he’ll do next.

A. no knowing

B. not to know

C. not known

D. being unknown

18. When she heard the bad news, she burst______.

A. into crying

B. out to tears

C. crying

D. out crying

19. You must never cross the street without ______ the light to turn green.

A. waiting B/ to wait C. waiting for D. to wait for

20. Scientists succeed _____ protein out of old newspapers.

A. to make

B. at making

C. making

D. in making

21. I became ______ after watching too much television.

A. bored

B. boring

C. bore

D. bores

22. I felt ____ by his interest in my new invention.

A. encourage

B. to encourage

C. was encouraged

D. encouraged

23. He sat there ______ a novel. A. read B. reading C. reads D. had read

24. Don’t wake up the______ child. A. sleep B. slept C. sleeping D. sleepy The heavy rain kept us _____ for two hours. A. wait B. waited C. waiting D. to wait

I found a dog ______ over by a car on the road. A. to run B. run C. ran D. running