高中英语现在分词用法练习题

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 taking

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

8. 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

16. 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