25. Mike hasn’t come back so far. What do you think ______ to him?
A. happens B. has happened
C. happening D. to happen
26. He kept putting his dream to the test—even though it meant ______ with uncertainty and fear of failure.
A. living B. to live
C. to be living D. having been lived
27. He didn’t seem to mind ____ __ TV while he was studying.
A. them to watch B. that they watch
C. their watching D. watching
28. Sandy could do nothing but ______ to his mother that he was wrong.
A. admitting B. admits
C. admit D. to admit
29. ______ reading the news, I immediately rang to see if I could help.
A. When B. While
C. On D. Moment
30. —Why can’t we smoke here?
—At no time ______ in the small meeting-room.
A. is to smoke permitted
B. is smoking permitted
C. smoking is permitted
D. permits smoking
31. —What would you like to do tonight?
—I prefer ______ at home, watching TV, ______ dancing.
A. staying; to go B. stay; to going
C. to stay; rather than go
D. to staying; rather than to go
32. Everyone here will thank the firefighters for the things they have done to prevent fires ______ the environment safer.
A. make B. to making
C. to make D. from making
33. —Do you watch TV in the evening?
—I’d rather read than watch TV. The programs seem ______ all the time.
A. to get worse B. to have got worse
C. getting worse D. to be getting worse
34. I know Jack spends at least as much time reading as he ______.
A. does writing B. is writing
C. writes D. does to write
35. When I caught him cheating me, I stopped ______ things in his shop.
A. buying B. buy C. to buy D. bought
36. With all the problems he wanted __ ____, he left the office.
A. settling solving B. to settle to solve
C. to solve settled D. being solved settling
37. My daughter ______ get up late, but now she ______ rising early in the morning.
A. was used to; is used to B. used to; was used to
C. was used to; used to D. used to; is used to
38. You can’t help ______ commercials; every a few minutes the program is interrupted to give you one advertisement or another.
A. to hear B. to be heard
C. hearing D. with hearing
39. My radio doesn’t work. It ______.
A. need repairing B. needs to repair
C. needs repairing D. need to be repaired
40. We had some trouble ______ the house and nobody seemed ______ where it was.
A. in finding; knowing B. finding; to know
C. to find; knowing D. to find; to know