考博英语语法练习
1.______in the matriculation for postgraduate in ashort time is really a hard nut.
A.To make high scores
B.Making high scores
C.To make low goal
D.Making low goal
2.I found ________ to answer all the questionswithin the time given.
A.no possibility
B.there was impossibility
C.impossible
D.it impossible
3.The students expected there _____ more reviewingclasses before the final exams.
A.is
B.being
C.have been
D.to be
4.You’re going to England next year. You should now practise______English as much as possible.
A.speak
B.to speak
C.speaking
D.Speak about
5.If we don’t start out now, we must risk ______ thetrain.
A.miss
B.missing
C.being missed
D.to miss
6. The flexibility of film allows the artist_______ unstrained imagination to the animation of cartooncharacters.
A.to bring
B.brining
C.is brought
D.brings
7.Although the lecture had already been on forfive minutes,I still wasnot able to find a chair____.
A.to sit
B.for to sit on
C.to sit on
D.for sitting
8. Surely her daughter would make an even biggereffort ______ her?
A.please
B.pleased
C.to please
D.having pleased
9.Lots of empty boots were found under the oldman’sbe
D.He must have done nothing but______.
A.drink
B.to drink
C.drinking
D.drunk
10.The local health organization is reported ___twenty-five years age when Dr. Adudon became its firstpresident.
A.to be set up
B.being set up
C.to have been set up
D.having been set up
11.I heard him __the door
A.locking
B.to lock
C.lock
D.being locking
12.He does nothing but___
A.complaining
B.to complaining
C.complain
D.to complain
13.The students expected there___ more reviewingclasses before the final exam.
A.is
B.being
C.have been
D.to be
14. The bank is reported in the local newspaper___ in broad daylight yesterday.
A.to be robbed
B.robbed
C.to have been robbed
D.having been robbed
15.I appreciated ______the opportunity to studyabroad two years ago.
A.having been given
B.having been
C.to have been given
D.to have given
16.There is no point ___further.
A.argue
B.to argue
C.arguing
D.being arguing
17.Nowhere in nature is aluminum found free, owingto its always ___with other elements, most commonly withoxygen.
A.combined
B.having combined
C.combine
D.being combined
18.They stopped ___, but now I’m getting intereste D.
A.listening
B.to listen
C.listen
D.having listening
19.I am sorry to hear that you resorted___
A.to cheat
B.to cheating
C.cheating
D.cheat
20.He wasn’t asked to take on the chairmanship of the society, ___insufficiently popular with all members.
A.being considered
B.considering.
C.to be considered
D.having considered
21.___of the burden of ice , the balloon climberup and drifted to the South.
A.To be free
B.Freeing
C.To free
D.Freed
22.___exceptions, the rule may stanD.
A.Allow for
B.Allowing for
C.To allow
D.To allow for
23.All flights___ because of the snowstorm, wedecided to take the train.
A.were canceled
B.had been canceled
C.having canceled
D.having been canceled
24.John painted her sitting in a chair with herhands ___
A.folding
B.to have folded
C.to fold
D.folded
25.It’seasy to blame the decline of conversation on the pace of modernlife and on the vague changes ___place in our ever-changing worlD.
A.taking
B.to take
C.take
D.taken
26.I worked so late in the office last night thatI hardly had time __the last bus.
A.to have caught
B.to catch
C.catching
D.having caught
27.I have got a loaf of bread ; nowI’m looking for aknife____.
A.to cut it with
B.to cut with it
C.with it to cut
D.it to cut with
28.The function of LouisSullivan’s architecturewas ___large uninterrupted floor areas and to allow ample lightinto the interior.
A.to provide
B.providing
C.having providing
D.provide
29.His victory in the final was no more ____than Ihad expecte D.
A.convincing
B.convinced
C.to convince
D.being convincing
30.I recommend you ___ what he says.
A.do
B.doing
C.to do
D.to doing
31.How about ____ there?
A.to go
B.go
C.going
D.to going
32.He is an ___teacher.
A.advancing
B.advanced
C.being advancing
D.advance
33.The Portuguese give a great deal of credit toone man for having promoted sea travel, that man ___prince Henrythe navigator, who lived in the 15th century
A.was
B.being
C.is
D.having been
34.I have no idea of ___it.
21.___of the burden of ice , the balloon climberup and drifted to the South.
A.To be free
B.Freeing
C.To free
D.Freed
22.___exceptions, the rule maystan
D.
A.Allow for
B.Allowing for
C.To allow
D.To allow for
23.All flights___ because of the snowstorm, wedecided to take the train.
A.were canceled
B.had been canceled
C.having canceled
D.having been canceled
24.John painted her sitting in a chair with herhands ___
A.folding
B.to have folded
C.to fold
D.folded
25.It’seasy to blame the decline of conversation on the pace of modernlife and on the vague changes ___place in our ever-changing worlD.
A.taking
B.to take
C.take
D.taken
26.I worked so late in the office last night thatI hardly had time __the last bus.
A.to have caught
B.to catch
C.catching
D.having caught
27.I have got a loaf of bread ; nowI’m looking for aknife____.
A.to cut it with
B.to cut with it
C.with it to cut
D.it to cut with
28.The function of LouisSullivan’s architecturewas ___large uninterrupted floor areas and to allow ample lightinto the interior.
A.to provide
B.providing
C.having providing
D.provide
29.His victory in the final was no more ____than Ihad expecte D.
A.convincing
B.convinced
C.to convince
D.being convincing
30.I recommend you ___ what he says.
A.do
B.doing
C.to do
D.to doing
31.How about ____ there?
A.to go
B.go
C.going
D.to going
32.He is an ___teacher.
A.advancing
B.advanced
C.being advancing
D.advance
33The Portuguese give a great deal of credit toone man for having promoted sea travel, that man ___prince Henrythe navigator, who lived in the 15th century.
A.was
B.being
C.is
D.having been