Gerunds & Infinitives: YDS Test - 2

Choose the appropriate word or word phrase to complete the sentences.

1. ……..… academic autonomy and a public legal personality, the university should be responsible for …..…. high level educational and scientific activities.
A) Having been possessed / carried out
B) To possess / being carried out
C) To have possessed / having carried out
D) Possessed / to carry out
E) To possess / carrying out

2. I have spent a few minutes ……… those people across the road and I am beginning …….. they are rather eccentric.
A) to watch / to have thought
B) to be watched / thinking
C) watching / to think
D) to have watched / having been thinking
E) having watched / to have thought

3. Exercisers should not be afraid …….. on themselves ……. out what training practices and techniques seem to be more comfortable.
A) to be experimenting / being found
B) to experiment / to find
C) having experimented / to have found
D) experimenting / finding
E) being experimented / having found

4. Despite the difficulties involved, many women combine .......... a family with .......... their own careers.
A) raising / pursuing
B) to raise / persuade
C) to raise / to pursue
D) to be raised / being pursued
E) raise / pursue

5. We dislike ……. even though we are all eager …….. money on having a good time and getting the things we want
A) to work / spending
B) to have worked / to be spending
C) to be worked / to be spent
D) having to work / to spend
E) being worked / being to spend

6. Scientific satellites are chiefly used ……. data about the Earth's surface and atmosphere and ……. astronomical observations.
A) to collect / to make
B) collecting / making
C) having collected / having made
D) to collecting / make
E) to be collected / to have made

7. Simon regrets …… part in the preparations for the English department's annual play as his friends appear ..…. a great time preparing the stage and the decorations.
A) not to take / to have had
B) not having taken / to be having
C) not taking / having had
D) not to have taken / to have
E) not taken / having

8. Some cows in India have humps, which aid them ……… by ……… a store of fat and water in the dry season.
A) surviving / being provided
B) to be surviving / having provided
C) survived / to be providing
D) to survive / providing
E) survive / provided

9. It's difficult ……… the rules of chess in a short time, so I think it will be easier now to show you how ……… backgammon.
A) being explained / to be playing
B) explaining / playing
C) to explain / to play
D) to be explained / playing
E) explain / to have played

10. I couldn't help ……. with my mother that a girl whose reason for …… in the kitchen was that she was afraid of making her hands rough.
A) to agree / not helping
B) to have been agreed / to help
C) to have agreed / not to help
D) having agreed / helping
E) agreeing / not helping

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