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Gerunds and Infinitives Advanced Level MCQs Test With Answers 1

1. The terrorist group is known ---- an extensive supply 7. When you telephone Lisa ---- her of the departmental
of weapons. meeting, please make it clear that we don’t blame
her ---- the order.
A) to have
B) having A) to have informed / to lose
C) having had B) informing / to have lost
D) to be having C) having informed / about losing
E) have had D) to be informed / on losing
E) to inform / for losing
2. Please play something else instead of Chris rea. His
music is too slow ---- at a party. 8. I will be sorry ---- this company, but I was offered an
opportunity ---- in a field which I really enjoy.
A) playing
B) to play A) leaving / to have worked
C) played B) to leave / to work
D) having played C) having left / about working
E) being played D) with leaving / for working
E) to have left / work
3. ---- the cottages, we raised enough money to
renovate the manor house. 9. I was surprised at the low level of service offered by
them as I had believed them ---- a respected
A) For selling company.
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B) By selling
A) be
C) To have sold
B) being
D) On being sold
C) to be
E) Not being sold
D) having been
4. As Sheila is moving house on Monday, she’s asked
E) have been
me ---- her ---- up all her belongings.
10. There is no point in going ---- when you haven’t got
A) helping / packing enough money ---- anything.
B) help / having packed
A) to shop / on buying
C) to help / pack
B) to be shopping / for buying
D) to be helped / to pack
C) shop / having bought
E) help / to be packing
D) shopping / to buy
5. My son has scribbled with a ballpoint pen on the
E) having shopped / to be buying
kitchen wall. In an effort to remove it, I’ve tried ---- it,
but that didn’t work, so I intend ---- the kitchen at the 11. It will cost too much money ---- a full-colour leaflet.
weekend. The advertising agency has advised us to have one
---- in black and white.
A) to clean / to be repa
B) having cleaned / repainted A) producing / being produced
C) to have cleaned / repainting B) produced / to produce
D) cleaning / to repaint C) to produce / produced
E) clean / being repainted D) to be producing / producing
E) having produced / produce
6. The rebels in Sierra Leone try ---- the village people
---- them by cutting off some of the inhabitants’ 12. Your willingness ---- new things resulted in your ----
hands. this management training.

A) making / obeyed A) learning / to be offered


B) to have made / to obey B) to have learnt / for offering
C) having made / obeying C) learn / to have offered
D) make / to be obeying D) to learn / being offered
E) to make / obey E) learnt / having been offered

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13. I don’t think it is a good time ---- Linda. She’ll be busy 19. Sonia got accustomed to her job at the private
---- thirty exam papers this evening, which won’t be hospital quickly because, apart from ---- richer
easy. patients, it is quite similar to ---- for the health
authority.
A) visiting / to mark
B) to have visited / mark A) to have / work
C) for visiting / to be marked B) have / be worked
D) to visit / marking C) to have had / worked
E) to be visiting / having marked D) having / working
E) had / having worked
14. She was furious when she found her younger sister
---- on her clothes. 20. I know she isn’t here at the moment because I saw
her ---- the building, but I don’t know if she intends
A) try ---- later today.
B) being tried
A) to leave / returning
C) to try
B) leave / to have returned
D) on trying
C) leaving / to return
E) trying
D) left / to be returned
15. It is a lovely drawing, but I think it needs ---- to look
E) to be leaving / return
its best.
21. I was worried about my sister’s ---- divorced from her
A) to frame husband, and for days, I couldn’t help ---- how she’d
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cope with it.


B) to be framed
C) to have framed A) get / to wonder
D) being framed B) getting / wondering
E) framed C) to get / wonder
16. The new football stadium is said ---- seating for D) to have got / having wondered
100,000 spectators.
E) having got / wondered
A) to have 22. I was unable to help my friends ---- for ‘Help the
Aged’ because my boss had asked me ---- the
B) having
Saturday.
C) had
D) to have had A) to campaign / work
E) have B) campaigning / wo
17. I managed ---- the tall bottle of cola into the C) campaign / to work
refrigerator ---- the middle shelf. D) being campaigned / working
E) campaigned / to have worked
A) fitting / to move
23. I started my journey without ---- at the map, but I
B) to fit / by moving
soon regretted ---- so, as I drove a long way off the
C) being fitted / to be moving route.
D) by fitting / to have moved
E) for fitting / moving A) looking / doing
18. The rebels are estimated ---- tens of thousands of B) to look / to do
civilians during the civil war which lasted six years. C) look / to have done
D) having looked / do
A) killed E) looked / having done
B) to kill
24. Johnny, will you stop ---- your father so many
C) to have killed questions? He’s busy ---- out his tax return.
D) killing
E) being killed A) to have asked / to fill
B) asked / to have filled
C) to be asked / fill
D) to ask / to be filling
E) asking / filling

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25. Veronica is so vain that every time she passes a 31. It was such an unruly class that the teacher struggled
mirror, she stops ---- at her reflection. just ---- order, but she endeavoured ---- those
students who were willing to learn.
A) looking
B) looked A) keeping / teach
C) having looked B) keep / teaching
D) to look C) to have kept / taught
E) to have looked D) to be kept / having taught
E) to keep / to teach
26. The workers would be even willing ---- lower wages if
it meant the factory ---- open. 32. Some Third World countries spend so much of their
annual budgets ---- interests on loans that there is
A) accepting / stayed little leftover with which ---- social problems.
B) to accept / staying
A) paying / to tackle
C) accept / to have stayed
B) pay / to have tackled
D) accepted / having stayed
C) to pay / tacking
E) to have accepted / stay
D) paid / having tackled
27. My clearest memory of my childhood is of ---- with
E) to be paying / tackle
the street dogs and I also remember ---- to the beach,
which was very close to our house. 33. He regretted ---- the contract without ---- the small
print on the back of the form.
A) to play / to have gone
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B) play / having gone A) to sign / to read


C) playing / going B) signing / reading
D) played / gone C) having signed / read
E) having played / to go D) sign / to have read
E) signed / having read
28. ---- when I don’t feel well is the worst thing about
acting in stage plays. 34. I think Julia dislikes ---- the documents although she
claims ---- it willingly.
A) Perform
B) By performing A) file / having done
C) Performing B) filed / to be doing
D) For performing C) filing / to do
E) Performed D) to file / doing
E) to be filed / done
29. Innocent people deserve ---- from the gunmen and
thieves in the area. 35. The Egyptian Pharaoh Akhnaten, who worshipped
only the Sun, is thought ---- the inspiration behind
A) to be protected Moses, whose monotheism provided the basis for
Judaism, Christianity and Islam.
B) to have protected
C) having protected A) to have been
D) for protecting B) had been
E) to protect C) having been
30. Asbestos is thought ---- around the time of Aristotle, D) about being
and during Roman times, it was used ---- fireproof
E) have been
clothing.

A) to have discovered / to making


B) being discovered / making
C) having been discovered / make
D) to discover / to have made
E) to have been discovered / to m

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Gerunds and Infinitives Advanced Level MCQs Test With Answers 1

Answer Key:

1: A 19: D
2: B 20: C
3: B 21: B
4: C 22: C
5: D 23: A
6: E 24: E
7: E 25: D
8: B 26: B
9: C 27: C
10: D 28: C
11: C 29: A
12: D 30: E
13: D 31: E
14: E 32: A
15: B 33: B
16: A 34: C
17: B 35: A
18: C

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