语法陷阱题800例—非谓语动词

5. Before you decide to leave your job, _______ the effect it will have on your family.

A. consider                                               B. considering

C. to consider                                           D. considered

6. Robert is said _______ abroad, but I don’t know what country he studied in.

A. to have studied                                     B. to study

C. to be studying                                       D. to have been studying

7. It is said that in Australia there is more land than the government knows _______.

A. it what to do with                                 B. what to do it with

C. what to do with it                                  D. to do what with it

8. Anyone _______ bags, boxes, or whatever, was stopped by the police.

A. seen carry                                            B. seen carrying

C. saw to carry                                          D. saw carrying

9. Mr Reed made up his mind to devote all he had to _______ some schools for poor children.

A. set up                                                  B. setting up

C. have set up                                           D. having set up

10. The discovery of new evidence led to _______.

A. the thief having caught                          B. catch the thief

C. the thief being caught                            D. the thief to be caught

11. She looks forward every spring to _______ the flower-lined garden.

A. visit                                                     B. paying a visit

C. walk in                                                D. walking in

12. To test eggs, _______ them in a bowl of water: if they float they’re bad, if they sink they’re good.

A. put                                                      B. putting

C. to put                                                   D. to be putting

13. “Where is David?” “He is upstairs ______ ready to go out.”

A. to get                                                   B. getting

C. to be getting                                         D. having got

14. “Mum, why do you always make me eat an egg every day?” “________ enough protein and nutrition as you are growing up.”

A. Get                                                      B. Getting

C. To get                                                  D. to be getting

15. He was reading his book, completely _______ to the world.

A. lost                                                      B. losing

C. to lose                                                  D. to have lost

16. We looked everywhere for the keys, but they are nowhere _______.

A. to find                                                 B. to have found

C. to be found                                           D. being found

17. The boy wanted to ride his bicycle in the street, but his mother told him _______.

A. not to                                                  B. not to do

C. not do it                                               D. do not do

18. A cook will be immediately fired if he is found _______ in the kitchen.

A. smoke                                                  B. smoking

C. to smoke                                              D. smoked

19. Finding her car stolen, _______.

A. a policeman was asked to help               

B. the area was searching thoroughly

C. it was looked for everywhere

D. she hurried to a policeman for help

20. “How do you deal with the disagreement between the company and the customers?” “The key ______ the problem is to meet the demand ______ by the customers.”

A. to solving, making                                B. to solving, made

C. to solve, making                                   D. to solve, made

21. “What do you think made Mary so upset?” “_______ her new bike.”

A. As she lost                                           B. Lost

C. Losing                                                 D. Because of losing

22. The research is so designed that once _______ nothing can be done to change it.

A. begins                                                  B. having begun

C. beginning                                             D. begun

23. Though ________ money, his parents managed to send him to university.

A. lacked                                                  B. lacking of

C. lacking                                                 D. lacked in

24. Tony was very unhappy for _______ to the party.(www.hxen.net)

A. having not been invited                         B. not having invited 

C. having not invited                                 D. not having been invited