考博英语语法测试

嘎嘣脆

1.______in the matriculation for postgraduate in a short time is really a hard nut．  
A．To make high scores     B．Making high scores  
C．To make low goal       D．Making low goal   
2.I found ________ to answer all the questions within the time given．  
A．no possibility     B．there was impossibility  
C．impossible         D．it impossible   
3.The students expected there _____ more reviewing classes before the final exams．  
A．is     B．being     C．have been     D．to be      
4.You’re going to England next year. You should now practise ______       English as much as possible.  
A. speak   B. to speak   C. speaking     D.   Speak about   
5.If we don’t start out now, we must risk ______ the train.  
A. miss     B missing     C. being missed   D to miss   
6. The flexibility of film allows the artist _______ unstrained imagination to the animation of cartoon characters.  
A．to bring     B．brining     C．is brought     D．brings  
7.Although the lecture had already been on for five minutes，I still was not able to find a chair____.

A. to sit     B．for to sit on     C．to sit on     D．for sitting  
8. Surely her daughter would make an even bigger effort ______ her?  
A．please     B．pleased     C．to please     D．having pleased  
9.Lots of empty boots were found under the old man’s bed. He must have done nothing but ______.  
A. drink   B. to drink   C. drinking   D. drunk   
10.The local health organization is reported ___ twenty-five years age when Dr. Adudon became its first president.  
A. to be set up         B. being set up   
C. to have been set up   D. having been set up   
11.I heard him __the door  
A. locking   B. to lock   C. lock   D. being locking   
12.He does nothing but___  
A. complaining   B.to complaining   C. complain   D. to complain  
13.The students expected there___ more reviewing classes before the final exam.  
A. is     B. being   C have been   D. to be   
14. 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   
15.I appreciated ______the opportunity to study abroad two years ago.  
A. having been given   B. having been   
C. to have been given   D. to have given   
16.There is no point ___further.  
A. argue   B. to argue   C. arguing   D. being arguing  
17.Nowhere in nature is aluminum found free, owing to its always ___with other elements, most commonly with oxygen.  
A. combined   B. having combined C. combine   D. being combined  
18.They stopped ___, but now I’m getting interested.  
A.listening   B.to listen     C. listen     D. having listening  
19.I am sorry to hear that you resorted ___  
A. to cheat   B. to cheating   C. cheating   D.cheat  
20.He wasn’t asked to take on the chairmanship of the society, ___ insufficiently popular with all members.  
A. being considered   B. considering.  
C. to be considered   D. having considered   

21.___of the burden of ice , the balloon climber up and drifted to the South.  
A. To be free   B. Freeing   C. To free     D. Freed  
22.___exceptions, the rule may stand.  
A. Allow for   B. Allowing for C. To allow   D. To allow for  
23.All flights___ because of the snowstorm, we decided to take the train.  
A. were canceled     B. had been canceled   
C. having canceled   D. having been canceled   
24.John painted her sitting in a chair with her hands ___  
A. folding   B. to have folded     C. to fold     D.   folded   
25.It’s easy to blame the decline of conversation on the pace of modern life and on the vague changes ___place in our ever-changing world.  
A. taking     B. to take   C.   take   D. taken  
26.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   
27.I have got a loaf of bread ; now I’m looking for a knife____.  
A. to cut it with   B. to cut with it   
C. with it to cut   D. it to cut with  
28.The function of Louis Sullivan’s architecture was ___large uninterrupted floor areas and to allow ample light into the interior.  
A. to provide   B. providing   C having providing   D provide   
29.His victory in the final was no more ____than I had expected.  
A. convincing   B. convinced   C.to convince   D.being convincing  
30.I recommend you   ___ what he says.  
A.do   B. doing   C.to do   D. to doing      
31.How about ____ there?  
A. to go   B. go   C. going   D.to going        
32.He is an   ___teacher.  
A. advancing   B.advanced   C being advancing   D advance  
33.The Portuguese give a great deal of credit to one man for having promoted sea travel, that man ___prince Henry the navigator, who lived in the 15th century.  
A.was     B. being   C.is     D. having been   
34.I have no idea of ___it.

21.___of the burden of ice , the balloon climber up and drifted to the South.  
A. To be free   B. Freeing   C. To free     D. Freed  
22.___exceptions, the rule may stand.  
A. Allow for   B. Allowing for C. To allow   D. To allow for  
23.All flights___ because of the snowstorm, we decided to take the train.  
A. were canceled     B. had been canceled   
C. having canceled   D. having been canceled   
24.John painted her sitting in a chair with her hands ___  
A. folding   B. to have folded     C. to fold     D.   folded   
25.It’s easy to blame the decline of conversation on the pace of modern life and on the vague changes ___place in our ever-changing world.  
A. taking     B. to take   C.   take   D. taken  
26.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   
27.I have got a loaf of bread ; now I’m looking for a knife____.  
A. to cut it with   B. to cut with it   
C. with it to cut   D. it to cut with  
28.The function of Louis Sullivan’s architecture was ___large uninterrupted floor areas and to allow ample light into the interior.  
A. to provide   B. providing   C having providing   D provide   
29.His victory in the final was no more ____than I had expected.  
A. convincing   B. convinced   C.to convince   D.being convincing  
30.I recommend you   ___ what he says.  
A.do   B. doing   C.to do   D. to doing      
31.How about ____ there?  
A. to go   B. go   C. going   D.to going        
32.He is an   ___teacher.  
A. advancing   B.advanced   C being advancing   D advance  
33.The Portuguese give a great deal of credit to one man for having promoted sea travel, that man ___prince Henry the navigator, who lived in the 15th century.  
A.was     B. being   C.is     D. having been   
34.I have no idea of ___it.