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5. A lawyer like him is too valuable for her time _____ on

1. Researchers found that a pocket near the top of the the years of research.
brain stem may be key in _____ whether someone is
likely _______ in compulsive behaviour or become A) to spend
hooked on drugs. B) to be spent
A) to determine / engaging C) to have spent
B) to have determined / to have engaged D) to have been spending
C) having been determined / to engaged E) spent
D) determining / to engage
E) being determined / to be engaged

6. Field’s lawyers spent dozens of hours mostly _____

the question of infection in depositions with the
physician.
2. The adverts on the internet have made it possible for
many performers _____ their work on their own. A) to pursue
B) pursuing
A) producing
C) having pursued
B) to be produced
D) to have pursued
C) to produce
E) being pursue
D) to have produced
E) being produced

7. Childhood obesity in the U.S. appears _____ girls to

reach puberty at an earlier age.
3. It could be an ill food worker or just an ill person who
happens _____ the same living space as you. A) to be causing
B) to be caused
A) being shared
C) to have been caused
B) sharing
D) causing
C) to share
E) being caused
D) share
E) having shared

8. It is the first organization of its kind in the region

_____ a full spectrum of policy research on _____
4. It is often difficult ______ the difference between challenges facing the three states.
feeling gloomy and having a depressive illness.
A) to be conducted / pressing
A) to be told B) conducting / having pressed
B) having told C) conducted / pressing
C) telling D) to conduct / to press
D) to tell E) to conduct / pressing
E) being told

9. She was the first American woman _____ this prize.

A) to win
B) winning
C) to have won
D) to be winning
E) to be won

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14. None of her relatives understood her _____ a

promising career ______ in a civil rights movement.

10. Mark has promised ____ direct air links with China as A) being left / participating
part of a comprehensive plan _____ closer trade and
B) having left / participate
economic ties.
C) to leave / participated
A) opening / building D) leaving / to participate
B) to have opened / to build E) leave / for participating
C) opened / built
D) to be opened / to be built
E) to open / to build
15. Earth's shadow will completely block the face of the
moon from ______ the sun's light for one hour and 13
minutes on March 3.

11. BP recently announced that it plans _____ its A) being reflected

investment in alternative and renewable
B) reflecting
energies_____ a new low-carbon power business.
C) to reflect
A) to be doubled / to have created D) to have reflected
B) to double / creating E) to be reflected
C) to have doubled / to be created
D) doubling / creating
E) to double / to create
16. The Spanish were among the first Europeans _____
the New World and _____ in what is now the United
States.

12. The three presidential candidates all had their A) exploring / settling
opportunity _____ the importance of their particular
B) to have explored / settled
policy proposal on Iraq.
C) explored / settled
A) to be restated D) to explore / to settle
B) restating E) to be explored / to be settled
C) to have restated
D) being restated
E) to restate
17. The secretary hired a few days ago seems _____
difficulty _____ with the typewriter she has been
given.

13. The device was the most important navigation A) to be having / coping
instrument _____ in the last millennium.
B) to have had / coped
A) to be invented C) to having / having coped
B) inventing D) having / copes
C) to have invented E) having had / cope
D) having invented
E) being invented

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18. With 70 per cent of Polish public opinion calling for its 21. Bill had the janitor ____ the door and ______.
troops _____ home, the president of Poland said he
preferred to wait until Iraq had a new government A) opening / entered
_____. B) open / entered
A) having brought / to be installed C) opened / entered
B) to be brought / installed D) opening / enters
C) bringing / to install E) to open / had entered
D) to bring / install
E) to have brought / installed

22. The finding could help prevent addiction by _____

those predisposed to such behaviour and could also
lead to new ways _______ it.
19. The police arrested 44 demonstrators on Wednesday
as they tried _____ in protest over a proposed law that A) to predict / treating
_____ foreign financing for local organizations, an B) being predicted / to treat
official said.
C) to be predicted / being treated
A) marching / had to block D) to have predicted / treat
B) to be marching / will be blocked E) predicting / to treat
C) to march / would block
D) having marched / would have blocked
E) to be marched / should block
23. The poet was caught ____ his sermons from other
deists and fled the country.

A) to be plagiarizing
20. I watch him ____ around and ______ away. B) plagiarized
A) turn / to walk C) plagiarizing
B) turning / walking D) plagiarize
C) to turn / to walk E) to have been plagiarized
D) turning / to walk
E) turn / walk

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24. Educational practices should strive _____ the 25. An understanding of psychosurgery will help
catastrophe of nuclear warfare by _____ a sense of neurosurgeons _____ the ethical, and technical
the reality and accessibility of peace. challenges that are sure _____ ahead as modern
science continues to unlock the secrets of the mind
A) to have averted / communicating and brain.
B) to have been averted / communicating
A) to face / lying
C) averting / communicate
B) to have faced / to lie
D) to avert / communicating
C) faced / to lie
E) to avert / being communicated
D) face / to lie
E) face / being lain

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Answer Key:

1: D 14: D
2: C 15: B
3: C 16: D
4: D 17: A
5: A 18: B
6: B 19: C
7: A 20: E
8: E 21: B
9: A 22: E
10: E 23: C
11: E 24: D
12: E 25: D
13: A

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