Mr. Read made up his mind to devote all he had to _____some schools for poor children.

A. set upB. setting upC. have set upD. having set up

該題主要考查動詞短語devote...to 的搭配，其中to為介詞，后接名詞或者動名詞，故答案是B。不少學(xué)生卻受定勢思維的影響，認(rèn)為to 之后應(yīng)該接動詞不定式，而錯選A。新編高中英語教材中有不少以介詞to 結(jié)尾的動詞短語，現(xiàn)小結(jié)如下：

以上短語的to 之后不可接不定式，只能接名詞或者動名詞作賓語。

Exercise 單項填空

1. If you feel up to _____ the work all by yourself， I’ll throw my hand in it.

A. doB. be doing

C. doingD. have done

2. This is the attention you should pay _____ your spoken English.

A. to improveB. to improving

C. improveD. improvement

3. These people used to _____ from place to place， but now they have got used to _____ in villages.

A. travel， liveB. traveling， living

C. travel， livingD. traveling， live

4. Now that you have made up your mind to do it， you must _____ it out .

A. stick to carryB. stick to having carried

C. stick to be carriedD. stick to carrying

5. The old man said the accident _____ careless driving. So a lot of money _____ by the driver.

A. was due to; was due to be paid

B. due to; was due to being paid

C. is due to; was due to pay

D. was due to; is due to be paid

6. Nowadays many young people are _____ computer games.

A. addicted to playingB. addicting to playing

C. addicted to playD. addicting to play

7. The black woman objected strongly _____ like that.

A. to treatB. to be treated

C. treatedD. to being treated

8. He is very sensitive to _____ small， so don’t mention it.

A. beingB. be

C. have beenD. get

9. They all agreed to put an end _____ out the plan.

A. to carryB. to make

C. to makingD. to carrying

10. They have made great contributions to _____ money for the disabled and Hope Project.

A. collectingB. have collected

C. collectD. collection

11. We are so much looking forward to _____ you again.

A. seeB. seeing

C. seenD. be seen

12. The professor has got down _____ a history of the Party.

A. to writeB. to writing

C. to be writingD. writing

13. He’s given to _____ so we don’t believe him.

A. boastB. boasted

C. boastingD. be boasted

14. It _____ that all the world will pay attention to _____ wildlife.

A. is hoped; protectB. is hoped; protecting

C. hopes; protectingD. hopes; protected

15. The discovery of new evidence led to _____.

A. the thief having caughtB. catch the thief

C. the thief being caughtD. the thief to be caught

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