1 . Most colleges now offer first-year students a course specially ________ to help them succeed academically and personally.

A．designed	B．designing
C．to design	D．being designed

2 . Easy Ways to Build Vocabulary

It's not all that hard to build an advanced and large vocabulary. Like many things in life, it's     1    ongoing process, and the best part of the process is that there's enough room for improvement,     2    means you'll just keep getting better and better. Of course you have to work at it. You wouldn't think that a few     3    (month) of exercise in your teens would be enough     4     the rest of your life, and that's also true for building your vocabulary--you have to keep at it daily, and pretty soon you will find that you have an excellent vocabulary.

One of the     5    (effect) ways to build vocabulary is to read good books. You need to     6    (real) read at least one good book a week, preferably a classic. This isn't as hard as it     7    (sound), and it is far better than any other method because you improve your vocabulary while     8    (read) an interesting piece of literature. Another nice thing is that you learn both new words and     9    (they) use unconsciously, meaning that you will tend to use the words     10    (learn) this way in conversations almost automatically.

3 . There have been many advances in medicine in recent years. That means money ______ for medical research has been well spent.

A．used

B．using

C．to use

D．to be used

4 . (2017·北京) Jim has retired, but he still remembers the happy time ________ with his students.

A．to spend	B．spend
C．spending	D．spent

5 . In art criticism, you must assume the artist has a secret message ________ within the work.

A．to hide	B．hidden
C．hiding	D．being hidden

6 . The speaker, ______for her wonderful speeches, will deliver a lecture in our school next week.

A．to know

B．being known

C．known

D．knowing

7 . With the government’s aid, those _____ by the earthquake have moved to the new settlements.

A．affect	B．affecting
C．affected	D．were affected

8 . The players ________ from the whole country are expected to bring us honor in this summer game.

A．selecting	B．to select
C．selected	D．having selected

9 . （2016·江苏）To return to the problem of water pollution, I’d like you to look at a study _________in Australia in 2012.

A．having conducted	B．to be conducted
C．conducting	D．conducted

10 . The trees _____ in the storm have been moved off the road.

A．being blown down

B．blown down

C．blowing down

D．to blow down