不定式练习题

　　1. The students expected there ____ more reviewing classes before the final exam.

　　[A] is [B] being [C] have been [D] to be

　　2. It isn’t cold enough for there ____ a frost tonight, so I can leave Jim’s car out quite safely.

　　[A] would be [B] being [C] was [D] to be

　　3. For there ____ successful communication, there must be attentiveness and involvement in the

　　discussion itself by all present.

　　[A] is [B] to be [C] will be [D] being

　　4. The vocabulary and grammatical differences between British and American English are so

　　trivial and few as hardly ____.

　　[A] noticed [B] to be noticed [C] noticing [D] being noticing

　　5. The local health organization is reposed ____ twenty-five years ago when Dr. Audon became its

　　first president.

　　[A] to be set up [B] being set up [C] to have been set up [D] having been set up

　　6. I worked so late in the office last night that I hardly had time ____ the last bus.

　　[A] to have caught [B] to catch [C] catching [D] having caught

　　7. 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

　　8. I advise them to withdraw ____.

　　[A] so as to get not involved [B] so as not to get involved

　　[C] so that not to get involved [D] as not to get involved

　　9. Would you ____ to give me a helping hand when I move to the new house?

　　[A] be so kind [B] be kind as [C] be so kind as [D] be kind

　　10. The solution works only for couples who are self-employed, don’t have small children and get

　　along ____ to spend most of their time together.

　　[A] so well [B] too well [C] well as [D] well enough

　　11. Marlin is a young man of independent thinking who is not about ____ compliments to his

　　political leaders.

　　[A] paying [B] having paid [C] to pay [D] to have paid

　　12. Greatly agitated, I rushed to the apartment and tried the door, ____ to find it locked.

　　[A] just [B] only [C] hence [D] thus

　　13. Christie stared angrily at her boss and turned away, as though ____ out of the office.

　　[A] went [B] gone [C] to go [D] would go

　　l4. Do you remember ____ to Professor Smith during your last visit?

　　[A] to be introduced [B] having introduced

　　[C] being introduced [D] to have introduced

　　l5. She moved closer ____ what she was saying.

　　[A] for my hearing [B] for me to hear

　　[C] as to for me to hear [D] in order I to hear

　　16. The tourists decided not to make a trip to that ancient temple ____.

　　[A] but stay where they were [B] but staying where they were

　　[C] but to stay where they were [D] instead of staying where they were

　　17. Did you notice the little boy ____ away?

　　[A] took the candy and run [B] taking the candy and run

　　[C] take the candy and run [D] who taking the candy and running

　　18. The pressure ____ causes Americans to be energetic, but it also puts them under a constant

　　emotional strain.

　　[A] to compete [B] competing [C] to be competed [D] having competed

　　19. In 1938 Pearl S. Buck became the first American woman ____ the Nobel Prize for Literature.

　　[A] receive [B] received [C] to receive [D] she received

　　20. Madame Curie is believed ____ the radium.

　　[A] discovering [B] having discovered

　　[C] to have discovered [D] to discover