I ______ work last week, but I changed my mind.




A.have started
B.was going to start
C.had started
D.would start

We were so tired after ...........several hours...........round the ancient sites the town that we hired a taxi to get back to our hotel.




A.spending-to be walking
B.having spent-walking
C.to be spending-walk
D.to spend--having walked

Glass is obtained..............certain materials, such as sand, soda and limestone, to a temperature of about 1300 degrees centigrade.




A.to have heated
B.by heating
C.without being heated
D.to be heating

His teachers believed that the boy did not deserve ...............so severely by the headmaster.




A.to have punished
B.having punished
C.to have been punished
D.having been punished

Your blue shirt has been washed, but it still needs .............. Why do you insist...........it today anyway?




A.to be ironed-wearing
B.to have ironed-to wear
C.ironing-on wearing
D.being ironed-to be wearing

When Grandma came.............with us, she wasn't accustomed................in such a big city, so initially she felt terribly disoriented.




A.staying-having lived
B.to stay-to living
C.stay-for living
D.stayed-to be living

The man sitting next to me at the theatre got so bored that he couldn't help ............throughout the whole performance of Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressidda.




A.yawning
B.to yawn
C.having yawned
D.to be yawning

No matter how angry he was, he would never ______ to violence.




A.resort
B.resist
C.refuse
D.resolve

I demand that I_____ to retake the exam.




A.be allowed
B.am allowed
C.will be allowed
D.were allowed

His friends suggest that they _____ for that post.




A.applies
B.apply
C.applying
D.will apply