To be asked, to be reading, to smile, to be dancing, to have been told, to be sleeping, to have been crying, to have grown, to prefer, to have been given, to be running, to have said, to have been living, to be going, to have arrived, to be swimming, to study, to have wanted, to be listening.
Exercise II. Select the correct form.
1. However efficient the equipment, the human element can never_____.
a) rule out c) to rule out
b) be ruled out d) to be ruled out
2. These are not records ______ proud of.
a) to feel c) to have felt
b) to be felt d) to be feeling
3. The kids _____ interested in those things which the school says are wrong.
a) are seem to be c) seems to be
b) seem to be d) seem be
4. A teacher allows _____ breaks every 20 or 45 minutes.
a) to have c) to have had
b) students to have had d) students to have
5. A mnemonic is a technique which helps you _____ things through association.
a) to don’t forget c) not to forget
b) to not forget d) not to have forgotten.
6. Football is sometimes said _____ in Great Britain by the Romans.
a) to be introduced c) to have introduced
b) to have been introduced d) to introduce
7. Korean technology is _____ in greater demand and better respected than ever before.
a) too high to have been c) enough high to be
b) too high to be d) high enough to be
8. As a free port, Hong Kong is easy _____ money in and out.
a) to be moved c) to have moved
b) to move d) to have been moving
9. I have something _____ you.
a) to be offered c) to offer
b) to have offered d) to have been offered
10. It was nice _____ me.
a) of the director to promote c) the director to promote
b) for the director to promote d) the director promote
Exercise II. Identify a mistake. Write out a letter that is under the wrong form and put down the correct form.
1. It may come as a surprise to learn that it isn’t age that makes you ‘to lose your memory’.
A B C
2. Transplant operations have enabled patients who, before their operations, were often
weak enoughto walk or even speak without great pain, to lead normal lives.
A B C
3. A nutrition education program is toldto have been introduced at elementary school
A B
to help children to understand the importance of diet.
C D
4. This gets over the problem of fast planes being too far away to see but likely to make
A B
contact in seconds and slow planes that are close enough to be seen.
C
5. He was surprisingto know that under hypnosis he described the third brick from the right of
A B C
a window on the seventh floor but could not remember what it looked when he was not
under hypnosis.
6. It remains to be seen whether any European manufacturer can truly to challenge the
A B
Americans by producing in enough volume to benefit from economies of scale, while at the
C
same time keeping off the growing threat from the Far East.
7. To be frank, I wanted for her to answer whether she had seen me speak to her husband.
A B C D
8. I appear to make a mistake: I used to speak of the Four Tigers as uncivilized countries. But
A B
it proved to be quite the other way about. The Four Tigers include the newly-industrialized
C
Nations – Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan.
9. He was to be the new consul in our city but before his arriving he was recalled for some
A
reason, so to say, never to come back again.
B C
10. Why not use this software program? It is supposed to have obtained from a reliable
A B
source. – I don’t want.
Exercise IV. Translate into Russian and write out the Infinitive with its headword.
1. A Chinese businessman gave the money to local swindlers in exchange for their promise to buy him Kamaz automobiles.
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2. The city mayor cited the financial problem connected with the city property and argued that it generally takes too long to solve this and other problems by a decision of the full council.
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3. The city authorities are doing what they can to resurrect the local party organization.
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4. Even in those countries that have official language academies, it is more usual to find the academy describing and explaining changes that have taken place than successfully decreeing changes that will take place.
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5. The discussion is expected to focus on four broad subjects.
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6. She sat there trying to pretend she did not want to dance and was quite pleased to be sitting there and to be watching the fun.
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7. He was afraid to be seen with me.
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8. There still remained things to be said and she was the girl to say them.
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9. I have come here not to be treated like a child.
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10. She pretended to be more ill than she actually was to be petted and made much of by her parents.
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