Verbs and Verb Patterns – 1
1. My father can’t afford ............ such an expensive house because he hasn't got enough money.
A) to buy B) buying
C) buy D) to buying
E) to have bought
2. The student rewrote the first paragraph of the composition since it didn’t
............ well.
A) reading B) to be read
C) to have read D) read
E) to read
3. Should you have a toothache, don’t delay ............ a dentist
any longer.
A) to visit B) to be visited
C) to be visiting D) to have visited
E) visiting
4. The lecturers at the faculty
enable the students ............ necessary knowledge to become a good
teacher.
A) learn B) to learn
C) used to learn D) learning
E) learned
5. The invitation, which demonstrates Martin’s intimacy, should
............ his colleagues.
A) please B) be please
C) pleased D) pleasing
E) have been pleased
6. During the final exam, the teacher caught a friend of mine
.......... from small papers.
A) cheat B) to cheat
C) while he cheating D) cheating
E) being cheated
7. The moment Jessica heard her father’s death, she ............
motionless for at least five minutes.
A) caught B) stood
C) pretended D) provided
E) elected
8. If a person’s body ............
of the balanced nutrition it requires, dieting can be harmful.
A) is deprived B) deprives
C) deprived D) to depriving
E) had deprived
9. The journalists ............ from the Minister’s remarks that he
was against European Union.
A) inferring B) had been inferred
C) were inferred D) have been inferred
E) inferred
10. Computers are complex but easy machines and they should not
............ just as calculating machines.
A) considered B) consider
C) be considered D) have considered
E) considering
11. Many tourists have always been
interested in ............ about Turkish culture.
A) learn B) to learn
C) to be learned D) learning
E) to have learned
12. I have a terrible headache. I would sooner ............ at home than
go outside.
A) stayed B) stay
C) to stay D) have stayed
E)
staying
13. The German teacher suggested that
the students ............ a bilingual dictionary if they wanted to.
A) bought B) should to buy
C) buying D) be bought
E) buy
14. It is necessary that the naughty students ............ immediately
to maintain discipline.
A) warned B) warning
C) be warned D) should warn
E) should be warn
15. The living room was in a mess, so my mother made my brothers
............ up the room.
A) to clean B) cleaning
C) cleaned D) to have cleaned
E) clean
Verbs and Verb Patterns -
2
1. Only man has the capacity for speech, which ............ him from
all other living things.
A) varies B) determines
C) defines D)
resembles
E) distinguishes
2. What ............ me most about TV programmes is that they contain
too much violence.
A) enables B) provides
C) allows D) bothers
E) achieves
3. It is known that the sample taken from that area isn’t suitable
for ............ the proportions of minerals in the soil.
A) paying B) delaying
C) determining D) disrupting
E) treating
4. No matter what anyone says, I shall give him the punishment he
............ .
A) deserves B) denies
C) rejects D) refuses
E) acknowledges
5. On one hand technology makes life easier for man, but on the other
hand, it ............ his existence.
A) saves B) endangers
C) maintains D) recalls
E) endures
6. The reason why he lost his interest in his job was that he
........... to obtain the promotion he had expected.
A) managed B) proved
C) failed D) obliged
E) supposed
7. That government should increase the living standards of people and
decrease inflation is a fact that everybody ........... on without any
exception.
A) persists B) agrees
C) depends D) spends
E) escapes
8. Ability is the power to ............ an action, mental or
physical, whether or not as a result of training.
A) cease B) prevent
C) forbid D) consume
E) perform
9. Non-smokers are mainly ............ by the smell and the pain of
smoke in their eyes and lungs.
A) impressed B) increased
C) supplied D) affected
E) admitted
10. Aspirin, which was ............ into medicine in 1899 by Hermann
Dresser in Germany, is widely used for the relief of headache and pain.
A) introduced B) dedicated
C) missed D) broken
E) abandoned
11. No nation in the world ............ of anybody’s being for racial
discrimination.
A) consists B)
evaluates
C) evacuates D) approves
E) aware
12. It is necessary that the public be enlightened about smuggling no
matter what measures the Ministry may have ............ .
A) taken B) given
C) delivered D) disappointed
E) terminated
13. A very large number of radio waves come in one second, and they
............ at the speed of sound.
A) visit B) utilize
C) travel D) delay
E) watch
14. The developed countries should ............ to help those who are
homeless and short of money all over the world.
A) object B) quit
C) avoid D) cancel
E) aim
15. Ankara ............ Istanbul as the capital of Turkish Republic
after the Independence War.
A) reduced B) replaced
C) left D) remained
E) existed
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