adequate preparation.

6. She likes to ____(listen)to the rain ____(patter)on the window-panes.

7. I would like you ____(bring) the book which I lent you three months ago.

8. If your pencil is let ____(drop)to the floor, you can see gravity in
action.

9. Suddenly we felt the atmosphere ____(grow) tense.

10. He was seen____(drive) the car at high speed on the highway yesterday.

11. I know it’s not important but I can’t help ____(think) about it.

12. That place is worth ____(travel) hundreds of miles to visit.

13. Do you mean ____(risk)____(catch) cold by going out now that it has
started pouring with rain?

14. How do you always manage ____(escape) ____(help)to do the washing-up?

15. I can’t stand people ____(shout) and ____(push) on the street.

16. We shall appreciate ____(discuss) the matter with you again.

17. It is of no use ____(argue) about it because he will never
change his mind.

18. It is not much use ____(have) a bicycle if you don’t know how to
ride it.

19. If we go ____(camp), we ought to take some food with us.

20. They don’t allow____(make) noise in the classroom building.

Exercise 9-II Fill in the blands with proper verb forms and then
translate the sentences into Chinese:

1. I forget ____(collect) your homework yesterday.

2. I shall dnever forget ____(go)with you to see the President.

3. Try ____(sit)still in a chair in a darkened room; you will
be surprised how fast you’ll get sleepy.

4. My sister tried ____(cheer)me up by every possible means.

5. A party tonight will mean ____(work) extra hard tomorrow.

6. I meant ____(ring) you but I’m afraid I forgot.

7. I regret ____(say) it was your fault.

8. I regret ____(say) you have failed in the examination.

9. I don’t like ____(swim) today because it is too cold.

10. Tom has lived in a village on the sea and he likes ____(swim)very much.

11. We won’t have him ____(do)the work owing to his health.

12. We saw the machine tools ____(assemble), when we visited the
factory last week.

13. Did you see Mr. Chang____(switch)off the light

14. At this moment he felt his heart____(beat)hard.

15. I want to gent something ____(read)during the vocation.

Exercise 9--III Choose the one answer that best complete the sentence:

1. Nobody enjoys having a tooth ____.

A. drill and fill       B. drilling and filling
C. to drill and fill D. drilled and filled

2. It’s no use our ____any longer. He may come by any train. He is
used to finding his way around.

A. to wait                B. waiting
C. to have waited D. having waited

3. The revolutionary fighter would rather die with his head high than
____with his knees bent.

A. to live                B. living
C. live                      D. lived

4. I forgot ____her that my coat buttons need to be sewn on.

A. reminding            B. having reminded
C. to remind           D. to have reminded

5. It’s no good ____remember grammatical rules. You need to practise
what you have learned.

A. trying to             B. to try to
C. try to                   D. tried to 

6. I feel like ____to the owner of the house to complain.

A. writing                 B. to write
C. write                     D. having written

7. As we approached the village we saw many new houses____.

A. built                     B. build