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动名词练习题 一． 选择题 Taking pictures ________ very interesting. A. is B. are C. to be D. be ______ the bad news made him cry. A. Hear B. Heard C. Hearing D. Is hearing ______ a desert has always been a risk adventure. A. Being crossed B. Having crossed C. Crossing D. To have crossed 4. Before he came, I’d finished _______ the whole book. A. to read B. to have read C. reading D. read 5. I always enjoy ______ to popular music at night. A. to listen B. listening C. that I can listen D. if I can listen 6. We are considering _______ a trip around the island. A. take B. to take C. to be taking D. taking 7. I hope you don’t mind ______ at your newspaper. A. I look B. my looking C. I looking D. mine to look 8. When a man’s heart stops _______, he dies. A. to beat B. beating C. beat D. beaten 9. I can’t help _______ he is still alive. A. thinking B. think C. to think D. thought of 10. So far as I am concerned, I prefer reading _______. A. than meat B. for joy C. instead of sleeping D. to drinking. 11. It goes without ______ that knowledge is important. A, talking B. telling C. saying D. mentioning 12. We are looking forward ______ our friends next week. A. to see B. to seeing C. to be seeing D. shall see 13. he spent a lot of money _______ books and magazines. A. buy B. buying C. to buy D. bought 14. The silkworm is an insect worth _______. A. to know B. knowing C. to be known D. being known 15. She went out without ________ good-bye to us. A. say B. to say C. saying D. being said 16. The curious student kept on ______ questions. A. asks B asking C. to ask D. asked 17. He is such a strange person; there’s ______ what he’ll do next. A. no knowing B. not to know C. not known D. being unknown 18. When she heard the bad news, she burst _______. A. into crying B. out to tears C. crying