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Gerunds and Infinitives Final Test

Multiple Choice Exercise

Choose the correct answer for each gap below, then click the "Check" button to checkyour answers.

1. Nate deservedto win

 the prize forw riting

 that amazing short story

abouttraveling

 through Peru. I don't understandhis not receiving

 the award.

2. I can't believe you wantedgoing

 to fish

, and you forgotbringing

 a

fishing pole. How did you expectto catch

any fish? Were you just going to sit in the

riverto try

 catching

 fish with your bare hands? You would have had a hard

timeto do

 that!

3. Vince is determinedto save

 enough moneytraveling

 to South Africa next

year. If he avoidsw asting

 his money and managesto save

 what he

needsmaking

 the trip, he plans onleaving

 in June.

4. When Sam mentionedw anting

 to go

 sw imming

, Nina

warnedhis not going

 into the river. She explained that the national park did not

allowvisitors' sw imming

 for several reasons. The number one reason

fornot permitting

 visitorsto swim

 was the large number of crocodiles in the

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park.

5. The Oscar-winning actor avoidstalking

 to his fans and refusesto give

 his

autograph. Moreover, he has difficultyto give

 interviews and appearshaving

 problemsto interact

 with other people. Doesn't he seem way too shyto be

 an actor?

6. Simone and Michael discussed

going

 to Tahiti on their honeymoon, but they had

very different opinions aboutvisiting

such an expensive destination. Michael said

that after such a costly wedding, he couldn't seespending

 so much money on a

vacation. Simone defendedtheir going

 to Tahiti byarguing

 that a

honeymoon is a once in a lifetime experience.

7.Using

 a search engineto look

 things up on the Internet is a skill that all

students needlearning

. That is why the government is

urgingschools' beginning

 to teach

 basic computer skills in elementary school.

Schools also encourageparents' reinforcing

 these skills at home bysurfing

 the Internet together with their children.

8. Samantha kepthaving

 problems with her computer at work. Her co-worker

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Denise suggestedshutting

 down the computer andto restart

 itseeing

 if

that would solve the problem.

9. Jack's interest inlearning

 foreign languages is a major factor in his

decisionmoving

 to China. One of his life-long goals islearning

 to speak

 Chinese fluently.Learning

 Chinese will be quite a challenge, butliving

 in

China should enablehim to achieve

 his goal ofmastering

 the language more

quickly.

10. Simon's attemptsfinding

 accommodation in Paris were not very successful.

He triedcalling

 every hotel in his guidebook, but he was shockeddiscovering

 they were all full. He called all the youth hostelsto find

 out if they had any beds,

but they were full, too. Another traveler advised himgoing

 to the tourist information

officeasking

 for help, but the office was closed. Although Simon hated the idea

ofleaving

 Paris withoutto have seen

 anything, the thought ofsleeping

 in

the train station orto walk

 the streets all night convincedhis taking

 the train

to another city

to look

for accommodation there