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Test - 10

- Infinitive, gerund
- Describing feelings and situations

He agreed _____ the job as soon as possible.
- A) start
- B) starting
- C) to start
- D) starts
I stopped _____ my book and went to bed.
- A) to read
- B) read
- C) will read
- D) reading
My teachers always expected me _____ well in exams.
- A) did
- B) doing
- C) do
- D) to do
Let me _____ for the meal. You paid last time.
- A) pay
- B) to pay
- C) paid
- D) paying
The dentist told me _____ more careful when I brush my teeth.
- A) will be
- B) being
- C) to be
- D) be
I asked Monica _____ some stamps.
- A) buys
- B) buying
- C) to buy
- D) buy
I never liked _____ to church when I was a child.
- A) going
- B) to do
- C) went
- D) go
Have you finished _____ that letter yet?
- A) to write
- B) writing
- C) writes
- D) write
You can’t _____ your car outside the hospital.
- A) parks
- B) to park
- C) park
- D) parking
David always enjoyed _____ football at school.
- A) to be played
- B) playing
- C) to play
- D) play
The TV program was so _____ that I felt asleep.
- A) tired
- B) surprising
- C) annoyed
- D) boring
Children can’t get to sleep on Christmas Eve. They’re too _____.
- A) bored
- B) excited
- C) frightened
- D) worrying
“Hi, Mum!”
“Carol! Thank goodness you rang! Where have you been? We’ve been so _____ about you.”
- A) interested
- B) annoying
- C) worried
- D) frightening
A: Hello, darling. I’ve got a present for you.
B: For me?
A: Don’t look so _____. I often buy you presents.
B: But it isn’t my birthday!
- A) bored
- B) exciting
- C) tiring
- D) surprised
The art exhibition was very _____. I loved it.
- A) surprised
- B) boring
- C) interesting
- D) excited
My feet are killing me! I find going round art galleries and museums very _____.
- A) tiring
- B) worrying
- C) boring
- D) frightening
Some people don’t go out at night because they’re _____ that someone will rob them.
- A) worried
- B) annoying
- C) surprised
- D) frightened
Our financial situation is very _____. We spend more and more, but we’re earning less and less.
- A) worrying
- B) exciting
- C) frightened
- D) interesting
A: You are yawning. Are you listening to what I am saying?”
B: I am! I’m really _____. I want to know what happened. It’s just that I feel very _____. I went to bed very late last night.
- A) surprised / tiring
- B) excited / worrying
- C) interested / tired
- D) frightened / bored
“I’m going on a three-month holiday to the Far East.”
“How _____! Lucky you!”
- A) frightening
- B) interested
- C) boring
- D) exciting
“Was your father _____ when you told him your exam results?”
“He was furious.”
- A) annoyed
- B) worrying
- C) frightened
- D) tired
“What _____ to do?”
“I’m looking for my contact lens. Can you see it?”
- A) do you try
- B) will you try
- C) are you trying
- D) did you try
“I’ll help you. What _____ me to do?”
“Could you do the washing-up while I am doing the cooking?”
- A) you want
- B) are you wanting
- C) did you want
- D) do you want
“What _____ you to do?”
“She (the doctor) told me to stay in bed for a few days.”
- A) will she tell
- B) did she tell
- C) is she going to tell
- D) does she tell
“My mother was so helpful while she was staying with us”
“What _____ to do?”
- A) did she help you
- B) does she help you
- C) will she help you
- D) was she helping you
“What _____ to do tonight?”
“What about going out for a meal?”
- A) do you like
- B) would you like
- C) are liking
- D) will you like
“What _____ to do after university?”
“I’d like to get a job in publishing.”
- A) do you hope
- B) will you hope
- C) are you going to hope
- D) are you hope
My family is trying _____ where to go on holiday.
- A) decided
- B) decide
- C) to decide
- D) deciding
I’d like _____ somewhere different for a change.
- A) went
- B) to go
- C) go
- D) going
I enjoy _____ places I’ve never been to before.
- A) visiting
- B) to visit
- C) visits
- D) visit
But my children hate _____.
- A) sightsee
- B) to sightsee
- C) sightseeing
- D)will sightsee
They prefer _____ in a swimming pool all day.
- A) playing
- B) plays
- C) to play
- D) to playing
They refuse _____ out on trips if it’s too hot.
- A) to going
- B) to go
- C) going
- D) go
Last year we managed _____ a holiday that suited everyone.
- A) found
- B) to find
- C) find
- D) finding
We decided _____ a house with a swimming pool.
- A) renting
- B) rent
- C) to renting
- D) to rent
A woman from a travel agency helped us _____ a nice house.
- A) to choose
- B) choosing
- C) chooses
- D) too choose
When we arrived, the people next door invited us _____ a drink with them.
- A) have
- B) to have
- C) to had
- D) having
We began _____ about next year’s holiday two months ago.
- A) talked
- B) talking
- C) talks
- D) talk
Everyone hopes ____ themselves on holiday but it isn’t always easy.
- A) enjoy
- B) to enjoy
- C) be enjoyed
- D) enjoying
My wife and I are starting _____ we should stay at home.
- A) thinking
- B) think
- C) to think
- D) thought
I went to the shops _____ some shoes.
- A) buy
- B) for to buy
- C) to buy
- D) for buy
Do you enjoy _____?
- A) dance
- B) dancing
- C) danced
- D) to dance
When I was young, I _____ ice-skating.
- A) went to
- B) go
- C) used to go
- D) going
He told me he loved me. I didn’t know what _____.
- A) to say
- B) say
- C) will I say
- D) saying
Their house is _____ mess! I don’t know how they live in it.
- A) so
- B) such an
- C) so many
- D) such a
There were _____ people at the party! There was nowhere to dance.
- A) such a
- B) so many
- C) so much
- D) such
I’m _____ hungry. I could eat a horse.
- A) so
- B) such a
- C) such
- D) so much
Jane and Pete are _____ nice people! But I can’t stand their kids.
- A) so many
- B) so
- C) such a
- D) such
I’ve spent _____ money this week! I don’t know where it’s all gone.
- A) such
- B) so many
- C) so much
- D) so
A present! For me? You’re _____ kind!
- A) such
- B) so many
- C) so
- D) such a

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